Congress and President Obama Order IRS to Use Private Collection Agencies

Last Friday, President Obama signed into law the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, or “FAST Act.” Included in that law is a provision requiring the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use private debt collection companies.

insideARM has written extensively about this possibility over the past few months. For background see:

In July I wrote about a story in the Huffington Post that I felt dramatically distorted the facts regarding past efforts to outsource collection of delinquent tax debts.