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forgotmylogin

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13. I wonder...
Thu Apr 20, 2017, 01:10 PM
Apr 2017

My friend worked for the IRS customer service department. If you owe back taxes and don't talk to them, after a while they can garnish your wages at 100% till you do talk to them. My neighbor was unemployed, and she had a rude awakening when she deposited a check intended for rent and it was all taken by the IRS. They can I guess "garnish" your bank account too.

That isn't difficult. Unless the person they are after doesn't have a job or a bank account.

I wonder if they might just have decided it was more economically feasible to sell off some long overdue tax bills from people who've consistently evaded them for amounts that aren't too significant ($2000 or less?) Chasing down people getting paid under the table and not maintaining bank accounts perhaps might have been costing the IRS more resources than it was worth to have their own people on it. (Their customer service rep employees are a government job starting just under 30k/year - MUCH higher than what debt collection employees make.)

Usually, that's *why* companies turn to debt collection services. They've exhausted all of their resources to collect and it's no longer worth it to keep pursuing, so they sell the debt to someone else for a fraction of what it actually is to make some money back.

I highly doubt the IRS is stopping debt collection completely.

Can they camp out at the White House, Mar-a-lago and Trump Tower? Fresh_Start Apr 2017 #1
Debt collectors respond: "Hey where are all the files with names that begin with the letter T?" ck4829 Apr 2017 #2
Another example of the desired privatization system.....nt 2naSalit Apr 2017 #3
Yep - Republicans further privatize gov functions for profit to their buddies vlyons Apr 2017 #5
They are going after student loans, too. I got a call from a collector, and I don't have any notdarkyet Apr 2017 #8
So did I. Ohio Dem Apr 2017 #18
Exactly! nt Plucketeer Apr 2017 #9
So they've caught on to the inevitable ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #4
net $2.4 billion over the next 10 years. and 50+ billion to 'for profits' in fees & bonus. Sunlei Apr 2017 #6
They sent my sister a bill for $8000 over an ira the bank cashed and held over Christmas holiday notdarkyet Apr 2017 #7
That shouldn't be a problem - she'd have 60 days to roll it over. Unless she had another rollover JudyM Apr 2017 #11
She took five days. Just shows the length they are going to to find money. They notdarkyet Apr 2017 #12
Unless there's some weird wrinkle, she shouldn't even need a lawyer - the redeposit evidence speaks JudyM Apr 2017 #17
I got one of those calls a year ago. I hung up and called my brother Doreen Apr 2017 #10
I wonder... forgotmylogin Apr 2017 #13
Will they accept iTunes gift cards as payment like the scammers do? n/t KWR65 Apr 2017 #14
More money for DeVos's family's collection agency More_Cowbell Apr 2017 #15
Maybe more "big data" for the likes of Cambridge Analytic or for Russian hackers lostnfound Apr 2017 #23
Yep, this won't end well duncang Apr 2017 #16
That's the first thing I thought n/t TexasBushwhacker Apr 2017 #20
I don't think this is going to work jmowreader Apr 2017 #19
Courteousy of the Scofflaw In Chief. 6000eliot Apr 2017 #21
They might want to start with Dumpty trump... llmart Apr 2017 #22
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