The IRS goes after taxpayers who can least afford payment, some critics say.
Debt collectors working for the Internal Revenue Service recouped nearly $213 million in owed taxes this year, the largest recovery since the program’s restart several years ago, according to recently released numbers.
“Numbers don’t lie,” Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, said Monday. “With every successive quarter, the data show that the Private Debt Collection program is working for taxpayers and making our system of tax collection fairer for every American.” Other observers, however, say on the whole, Americans are in a better financial position to pay off their debts than they were several years ago, or even a decade ago.
The IRS could bring in $535 billion over a decade if it focused on high net worth taxpayers, a recent study from former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers suggested.
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