By Herb Weisbaum
Uncle Sam needs some help collecting unpaid taxes, so the Internal
Revenue Service will now use private companies to tackle this growing
backlog of debt.
The IRS announced earlier this month
that it's hired four debt collection agencies to round up outstanding
payments from taxpayers who've been contacted numerous times and still
haven't paid.
The new private debt collection program
is starting off slowly: At first, just a few hundred taxpayers a week
will receive mailings and subsequent phone calls. That will grow to
thousands of people a week later in the spring and summer.
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Source: NBC News
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