Tax Law Insights

The IRS recently announced that, beginning this month, the tax agency will be assigning certain unpaid tax accounts to private collection agencies.   The IRS will retain and continue to collect most unpaid taxes.    The IRS has identified certain tax accounts, however, that it will assign over to these newly-designed private collection firms for collection.  The accounts to be assigned to the private collection firms involve taxpayers who have not paid their taxes for many years and who should be well-aware of their unpaid taxes.

The private collection firms will be authorized to contact ...