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Hell yes!!!
Me too. If it is owed, then get it the hell -- collected. Duh!
Have always bee a bit surprise by some folks who don't want the IRS to be a 'best practices' agency in their collection of funds owed to the American people. As if the American people need to hold the bag for the scammers, cheaters, and the sloppy delinquent inattentive taxpayers.
Hell, in all my 30+ years in business....collecting what was owed to us was always high on our vigilance to-do list. Know what is owed to us. Who owes it. And be attentive --assertive when need be ....in getting it collected. Duh!!
Being sloppy in your collections....is an absolute 'tell' on the quality of businessman one is. And it ain't a flattering 'tell'. It signals a poor businessman.
Today (oh hell, for the last several years) my own tax guy has been telling me that the IRS computers are outdated, they don't have enough staffing to stay on top of the laws or the collections, and that million, ginormous millions....go uncollected because the IRS simply can't apply enough of their allocated resources to best practices debt collection.
And THAT.....is my own guy. My own accountant & tax maven saying that the IRS needs t o do a better job at collections!
So I welcomed the news some months ago that Congress was willing to fund the IRS as they should.