Or as the government-embedded media put it.
New IRS Strategy May Make It Harder To Distinguish Tax Collectors From Scammers
The news here is (1) that the IRS is finally planning to actuate a strategy long-discussed but long-delayed: using collection agencies, and (2) the gullible will now be up against "normal" IRS and state Department of Revenue fraud, but private-sector thieves pretending to be the IRS as well.
I don't think you have to worry much about #1. The Great One used to say to watch out if the goons started contracting out the collection of "income taxes", but that was before the Greater Depression set in around 2008. This has done what 9/11 tried to but couldn't: "change everything". That includes the IRS' workings -- at least twice they've announced that cutbacks were necessary and "services" to "taxpayers" would be much slower moving.
NW translation: Fewer audits and conquests but also more people hanging in limbo for longer as their cases get jammed in the works. If this new plan succeeds any better than the IRS' other stratagems, I'll eat my hat.
As for #2, start alerting friends and family that not only the scammer scammers but the IRS scammers may be calling them now. Especially vulnerable are the very old and very young. My advice would be to tell any real or potentially fake IRS agent who calls that you insist all communication be in writing, or (failing that) in person.
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