Payments To Firm Deemed Improper / Auditor Criticizes Over $2 Million In...
Source: By Dan Keating, Washington Post (DC), Thursday, May 22, 2008 A consultant for the District Office of Tax and Revenue has been paid more than $2 million in improper charges, including airfare to...
View ArticleTax Suspect's Guidance on Software Left D.C. at Risk
Source: By Dan Keating, Washington Post (DC), Tuesday, June 10, 2008 The tax manager charged as the mastermind of the biggest fraud in the District’s history helped play a role in designing the...
View ArticleSaginaw privatizes controller
Source: JUSTIN ENGEL, THE SAGINAW NEWS (MI), Tuesday, June 17, 2008 Saginaw City Council members approved a three-year, $225,000-per-year contract for a makeover of the controller’s office. The city...
View ArticleIRS private collection service still iffy
Source: Accounting Web, September 30, 2008 Another in a series of reports by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) underscores continuing and significant problems with use by...
View ArticleThe case for insourcing
Source: By ELISE CASTELLI, Federal Times, September 21, 2008 A rare thing happened in January. Sixty-five Navy civilian employees at Puget Sound’s Fleet and Industrial Supply Center in Washington state...
View ArticleTax amnesty program gains committee’s OK
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View ArticleBing: Privatizing can save city cash
Source: BY SUZETTE HACKNEY, FREE PRESS (MI), August 14, 2009 Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is proposing to privatize two of the primary tasks of the city’s finance department: the collection of taxes and the...
View ArticleIs Government Consolidation Always Good?
Source: Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene, Governing, March 2011 In tight times, governments push for more centralization. But it doesn’t always produce the positive results that are hoped for.
View ArticleFlorida backs off license tag fight
Source: Brittany Alana Davis, Tampa Bay Times, December 8, 2012 Backing away from a possible court fight, the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles announced Friday that it will halt...
View ArticlePrivatized tax collector deferred
Source: Loren Moreno, Honolulu Advertiser (HI), Friday, January 13, 2006 It could cost the state at least $3.6 million to set up a new system to allow a private company to collect the general excise...
View ArticleIRS plan to use private tax collectors runs into snags
Source: By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, 5/4/2006 2:19 AM ET A private debt-collection firm tapped by the IRS to seek repayment from Americans who owe back taxes has been tangled in legal controversy,...
View ArticleHouse Committee Throws Out IRS Plans To Privatize Tax Collection
Source: by Glen Shapiro, LawAndTax-News.com, New York, 08 June 2006 An amendment put forward by Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) designed to prevent the IRS from putting in place measures to outsource tax...
View ArticleTax Farmers, Mercenaries and Viceroys
Source: By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York Times (subscription req.), August 21, 2006 Yesterday The New York Times reported that the Internal Revenue Service would outsource collection of unpaid back taxes to...
View ArticleIRS Private Debt Collection Agency Program Faces Opposition
Source: Associated Press, Tuesday, August 22, 2006 As the Internal Revenue Service prepares to implement a new program that sends private debt collection agencies after delinquent taxpayers, critics —...
View ArticleIRS sends collection agencies calling for back taxes
Source: By Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY, September 5, 2006 Beginning this week, thousands of Americans who owe taxes to the federal government will start getting phone calls to pay up — from private...
View ArticleTax Debt Collection: IRS Needs to Complete Steps to Help Ensure Contracting...
Source: GAO-06-1065, September 29, 2006 In 2005, the inventory of tax debt with collection potential had grown to $132 billion. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has not pursued some tax debt because...
View ArticleMo. firm to pay state $2 million for overbilling
Source: BETH DeFALCO, Associated Press (NJ), Mon, Feb. 05, 2007 A company hired to collect back taxes will reimburse New Jersey nearly $2 million it over-billed the state. Chesterfield, Mo.-based OSI...
View ArticlePanel hears ‘harassment’ by IRS-hired private debt collector
Source: By DANIEL FRIEDMAN, Federal Times, May 24, 2007 Whether Congress will revoke the Internal Revenue Service’s authorization to hire private debt collectors remains to be seen, but at least one...
View ArticlePrivate tax collection bid endures
Source: By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press, Jun 28, 4:45 PM ET An initiative to farm out tax collection to private agencies survived a challenge Thursday from House lawmakers who said the program was...
View ArticleAnother Attempt at Ending IRS Privatization Program Moves Forward
Source: OMB Watch, July 24, 2007 Both the House and Senate have taken important steps toward ending the wasteful and risky Internal Revenue Service (IRS) private tax collection program. The House Ways...
View ArticleHouse Rejects IRS Program
Source: By Stephen Barr, Washington Post, Thursday, October 11, 2007 The House voted yesterday to kill an Internal Revenue Service program that uses private companies to track down delinquent taxpayers...
View ArticleSeventeen Senators Back IRS Union's Opposition To Private Tax Collectors
Source: Windsor Genova, AHN News, January 29, 2008 8:38 p.m. EST Seventeen senators on Tuesday expressed support to an Internal Revenue Service union’s call for the agency to end the use of private tax...
View ArticlePrivate tax-collecting firm has troubling record
Source: DAN WALTERS, Sacramento BeeScripps News (CA), April 4, 2008 A California employee union is complaining about an embryonic scheme in the state Board of Equalization to hire one or more private...
View ArticleD.C. scraps $120 million tax system
Source: Associated Press (DC), May 6, 2008 – 8:46am The D.C. finance office will scrap a $120 million computerized tax system that was strongly criticized by auditors. According to a report obtained by...
View ArticlePortsmouth Resident Working to Find Ways Communities Can Share Services
Source: Sandy McGee, Portsmouth Patch, April 7, 2013 The Joint Commission on Shared Municipal Services has appointed two advisory committees to support its first steps toward helping cities and towns...
View ArticleFirm says home rule may be a cost-saving measure for Cumberland County
Source: Christen Croley, Sentinel, November 14, 2013 …Among the recommendations Public Financial Management unveiled Wednesday during a Cumberland County finance meeting was the idea the county could...
View ArticleNew Jersey town takes the taxing out of tax collection
Source: John Breeden II, GCN, December 20, 2013 …If enough residents don’t pay their taxes or their municipal bills, it can strangle a small government. Municipalities do have some tried and true ways...
View ArticleUnion fights push to hire private tax collectors
Source: Associated Press, April 15, 2014 A public employees union is fighting a bipartisan effort in Congress to force the Internal Revenue Service to hire private contractors to collect some...
View ArticleDon’t mess with RITA in Niles recovery plan
Source: The Vindicator, July 31, 2017 Last week, the Niles Financial Planning and Supervision Commission, the state-appointed panel overseeing the city’s recovery, put its stamp of approval on the...
View ArticleKOSE demands active shooter training following shooting at Dept of Revenue...
Source: Devon Fasibnder, KWCH, October 5, 2017 The Kansas Organization of State Employees is demanding active shooter training for all state employees following the shooting of Cortney Holloway at...
View ArticleIge appoints new director for troubled state tax department
Source: Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Star Advertiser, December 6, 2017 Gov. David Ige today named Linda Chu Takayama as the new director of the state Department of Taxation in an effort to quickly replace...
View ArticleThe Effects of State Delinquent Tax Collection Outsourcing on Administrative...
Source: Sungkyu Jang, Robert J. Eger, The American Review of Public Administration, April 6, 2018 Abstract Since the 1980s, state governments have been using private debt collection agencies as...
View ArticleKansas agency chief on no-bid contracts: ‘It’s all public record’
Source: Jonathan Shorman, Wichita Eagle, May 11, 2018 Kansas lawmakers voiced frustration this week that they were unaware the state’s revenue agency had entered into no-bid contracts worth millions,...
View ArticlePrivate tax collection agencies lose money while going after the poor
Source: Joe Davidson, Washington Post, July 6, 2018 In its zeal to privatize important parts of the government, the Republican-controlled Congress directed the Internal Revenue Service to use private...
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