Episode 30: What to Know About IRS‘ Private Collection Agencies

In this episode, I discuss the IRS' use of private collection agencies or PCAs. With the widespread use of phone calls and emails from scam artists pretending to be the IRS you are right to be skeptical. However, the IRS has indeed farmed out collections of certain tax debts to private companies. Do you know how to identify fact from fraud?

I will go over the IRS' process of assigning a case to a PCA and what information to look for to verify that a collection call is related to a real IRS private collection agency and not a scam artist. 

Listed below is a link to IRS resources you can use to get more detail on the IRS' use of PCAs.

Here is a copy of the IRS notice assigning your case to a PCA:

CP40 - "We assigned your overdue tax account to a private collection agency"

IRS Webpage Discussing PCAs

IRS FAQs on PCAs

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