Private Collection of Some Overdue Federal Taxes Starts in April. Taxpayers: Watch Out for Scam Calls
Private Collection of Some Overdue Federal Taxes Starts in April. The IRS Will Still Handle Most Tax Debts.
Taxpayers: Watch Out for Scam Calls.
Starting this month, the Internal Revenue Service will begin sending letters to a relatively small group of taxpayers whose overdue federal tax accounts are being assigned to one of four private-sector collection agencies.
The new program, authorized under a federal law enacted by Congress in December 2015, enables these designated contractors to collect, on the government’s behalf, unpaid tax debts. Usually, these are unpaid individual tax obligations that are not currently being investigated by IRS collection employees.
Private firms are not authorized to take enforcement actions against taxpayers. Only IRS employees can take these actions, such as filing a notice of Federal Tax Lien or issuing a levy. To learn more about the new private debt collection program, visit the Private Debt Collection page on IRS.gov.
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