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Article: Grassley debunks private contractor bias: Grassley said that there is roughly $90 billion in unpaid taxes that is languishing, instead of being collected.(Chuck Grassley)(Brief article)
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- Accounting Today
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, has sent a letter to his chamber colleagues in an attempt to blunt what he termed "inaccurate claims" about the private collectors employed by the Internal Revenue Service.
In a "Dear Colleague" letter, Grassley pointed out that the agency's own collection infrastructure is better set up for placing liens and garnishing wages than it is for making initial phone calls to delinquent taxpayers to set up a payment plan.
Grassley wrote that the private debt collection program consists of having contractors make basic phone calls to taxpayers, contrary to the ...