Information for Collection Agencies Interested in Consideration for IRS Tax Collections

According to the Wall Street Journal, three different collection agencies are interested in collecting overdue taxes from the IRS under Bush’s new budget for ficscal year 2003. Those companies were DCS, Inc. of San Leandro, CA, Allied Interstate Inc. (a subsidiary of Intellirisk Management Corp.) of Columbus, OH, and GC Services LP of Houston, TX. These are the only companies that have been named thus far.

But a source at the IRS tells CollectionIndustry.com that the agency is still accepting contact information from private collection agencies interested in consideration for the contracts to collect back taxes and that a request-for-proposal has not been issued. The IRS will accept contact information only and will notify the agencies when an RFP is available for comment. Interested agencies should send their contact information to *collection.inquiries@irs.gov. The * is very important in front of collection as the email will not be delivered without it.

The budget proposal from President Bush calls for a 5.25% increase in the IRS’s budget for 2003. This increase will allow the tax collection agency to increase staff by about 1,000 and will give the IRS an opportunity to outsource the collections of some $13 billion in back taxes.