IRS selects 3 private firms to help with tax collections
Source: USA Today, March 10, 2006
The Internal Revenue Service said Thursday that three companies have been chosen to help collect unpaid tax debts. The companies, among 33 applicants, will help the IRS collect from taxpayers who agree they owe taxes but haven't paid. …… Critics, such as National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley, have voiced concern about taxpayer privacy. Everson said the IRS plans to write the training curriculum for private companies and monitor the quality of their work. Government auditors have also been tracking the program. The companies are the CBE Group, in Waterloo, Iowa; Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson LLP in Austin; and Pioneer Credit Recovery in Arcade, N.Y.