Judge Intends to Order IRS to Open Its Debt Collection Bids
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WASHINGTON (AP) - A judge told the Internal Revenue Service that
he intends to rule that tax collectors were too restrictive while
looking for companies to run the first phase of the agency's new
debt collection program.
Judge Robert H. Hodges Jr. of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims
filed an order this week to alert the IRS that he intended to
block the bidding process. The order came in case filed by
Universal Fidelity, a Texas debt collection company excluded
from the bidding process.
The IRS won authority last fall to hire private debt collection
companies to track down old tax debts.
This spring, the IRS asked companies to bid on the first, limited
phase of the project. That solicitation said the IRS only wanted
to consider companies that already had contracts to perform
debt collection services for the government.
Hodges wrote in the order that the IRS could best meet its goal
for a successful project "by opening the list of potential bidders
to everyone" qualified to receive government contracts.
An IRS spokesman said it was premature to comment on the order
before the judge issued a final ruling.
The IRS planned to chose three companies to implement the first
phase of the debt collection program by the end of the month.
That phase would begin in 2006 and the full project would be
in place in 2007.
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Shark feeding frenzy begins...
No no Guido ! Carmine said I could pay you next week.
He did, I swear on my sainted mother's grave !
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