A collection agency wants me to pay back taxes from 1995. They say they represent the IRS and will garnish wgs

Question

Can they do this and get away with it. How can I get out of it... I'm on a set income.

Answer 1

Call the IRS at one of the official numbers on their web site
(www.IRS.gov).

Answer 2

Some tax accounts were assigned to commercial collection agencies. They do not have any power to enforce collection. Private collectors also cost the government about 10 times what it would cost for IRS employees to do the same work (if you ever wondered about government efficiency, this is a good example.)

If you are unable to pay what you owe without hardship based on IRS allowable expense standards, your account will be reported as currently not collectible. If you do not want to talk to a private collector you can demand that the account be transfer ed back to IRS control. An account dating back to 1995 might die on the vine before anything was done.

Answer 3

In 2004, Congress authorized the Internal Revenue Service to use private collection agencies for collection of unpaid taxes. In October of 2007, Congress submitted a bill to rescind the authorization, but it has not yet passed. If it does, Bush has threatened to veto it.

Apparently Congress decided that, with reduced staffing at the IRS, it was OK to use private firms to do some of its collecting.

Answer 4

hmmm...i don't think that is legitimate

i recall reading somewhere that there is a set number of years that they can go back and ask for back taxes....1995? that's like 12 years, definitely sound fishy

I would check out the irs site
www.irs.gov

Answer 5

IRS does their own collecting.I suggest you talk to your tax preparor do not respond until your sure its not a scam.Sounds phoney to me and I was in the collection bussiness over thirty years.

Answer 6

Only the government can garnishee a pension. These guys are frauds.