Business Publication Runs Spotlight on IRS Collector

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22 January 2007 at 04:36 a.m. ET

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While the IRS’s plan to use private debt collectors is receiving some severe scrutiny from the Democratic Senate, other publications are taking a less aggravated approach to the story. The Buffalo News is profiling Pioneer Credit Recovery, a New York-based collection agency, and one of the three chosen by the IRS to run its debt collection program.

While privacy issues and “corruption” spring from the lips and pens of critics of the program, the Buffalo News piece details the training that collectors receive to properly collect on these debts. Rather than debt collectors run amok, as the ramped-up rhetoric from the Democrats opposed to the program might suggest, instead the piece shows how carefully the collectors are trained to prevent just such issues.

The full piece can be read on the Buffalo News’s site here.