House 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 and lets the companies keep a percentage of the taxes they collect. The vote, generally on party lines, was 232 to 173.
....... Meanwhile, the White House yesterday threatened a veto, saying that the private collectors bring in taxes "that are otherwise not likely to be collected by the IRS."