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Taxpayer Data Used at Contractor Facilities May Be at Risk for Unauthorized...

Source: Treasury Inspector General for the Tax Administration, May 18, 2010   The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) provides its taxpayer data to contractors who store and process the data at their own...

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Cincinnati loses tax case in golf course privatization

Source: Dan Monk, Business Courier, December 10, 2010 The Ohio Tax Commissioner has ruled against the city of Cincinnati in a dispute over property taxes on city-owned golf courses, a ruling that could...

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Privatization and the Sale of Tax Revenues

Source: Julie A. Roin, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 95 no. 6, 2011 From the abstract: While the privatization of governmental activities may have begun as an effort to obtain efficiency gains,...

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Middletown Task Force Recommends Merging Departments To Save Money

Source: Shawn R. Beals, Hartford Courant, May 15, 2012 The Mayor’s Task Force on Efficiency in Government has recommended the merger of five city hall departments, and the use of employee performance...

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Memphis eyes shifting tax collection duties

Source: Amos Maki, Memphis Commercial Appeal, November 16, 2012 The city of Memphis is poised to move forward with a plan to allow the Shelby County Trustee to collect current and delinquent taxes for...

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Virginia begins issuing debit cards — bearing possible fees — for tax refunds

Source: Tom Jackman, Washington Post, April 14, 2013 It’s national Tax Day on Monday, when many taxpayers turn their thoughts to the refund checks they’re expecting sometime in the next few weeks. But...

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Homestead Property Tax Credits Department of Assessments and Taxation

Source: Maryland General Assembly, Department of Legislative Services, Office of Legislative Audits, Performance Audit Report, February 2013 A Comprehensive Compliance Program Should be Established...

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Restyled as Real Estate Trusts, Varied Businesses Avoid Taxes

Source: Nathaniel Popper, New York Times, April 21, 2013 A small but growing number of American corporations, operating in businesses as diverse as private prisons, billboards and casinos, are making...

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Portage council rescinds vote to have city manager study privatizing assessing

Source: Tom Haroldson, MLive.com, May 14, 2013 There will be no study of outsourcing assessing in Portage. The Portage City Council vote in April to have the city administration study the option of...

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Cato Institute: Eliminate Muni Bonds, Use P3s and Privatization

Source: Jennifer DePaul, Bond Buyer, July 25, 2013 (subscription required) Congress should consider eliminating tax exemption and privatizing infrastructure to subject it to property taxes in order to...

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Contractor Employees Have Millions of Dollars of Federal Tax Debts

Source: Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA), Reference Number: 2013-10-082, August 30, 2013 From the press release: Although the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires its...

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New Jersey town takes the taxing out of tax collection

Source: John Breeden II, GCN, December 20, 2013 …If enough residents don’t pay their taxes or their municipal bills, it can strangle a small government. Municipalities do have some tried and true ways...

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Are PILOTs Property Taxes for Nonprofits?

Source: Fan Fei, James R. Hines Jr., Jill R. Horwitz, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), NBER Working Paper No. w21088, April 2015 (subscription required) From the abstract: Nonprofit...

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Should Luzerne County employees compete with the private sector for their work?

Source: Jennifer Learn-Andes, Times-Leader, July 7, 2015 Outsourcing? Privatization? Luzerne County Councilman Jim Bobeck said the concept he’s pushing for is neither of those because he wants to open...

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Queen’s Park chases used car buyers who were undercharged taxes

Source: Richard J. Brennan, Toronto Star, September 30, 2015 The Ontario government is chasing motorists who purchased used vehicles in the spring and didn’t pay enough tax — ranging from $100 to $500...

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Tax contractor got inside information: emails

Source: Susanne Cervenka, Asbury Park Press, November 22, 2015 The government emails sought by a grand jury investigating Monmouth County’s new tax program show that confidential internal...

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Privatized housing program paying off for University System of Georgia

Source: Dave Williams, Atlanta Business Chronicle, May 10, 2016 A student housing privatization initiative launched this school year by the University System of Georgia is paying early dividends. Four...

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City of Willmar abolishes assessor’s office, Kandiyohi County to take over

Source: Shelby Lindrud, West Central Tribune, May 16, 2016 Starting July 5, Kandiyohi County will provide assessing services for the city of Willmar, as the Willmar City Council approved resolutions to...

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How you buy affects what you get: Technology acquisition by state governments

Source: Kawika Pierson & Fred Thompson, Government Information Quarterly, June 24, 2016 Abstract: Research suggests that governments should rely on standardized information technology solutions...

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NTEU: Using IRS employees, not outsourcing for debt collection ‘smart and...

Source: Meredith Somers, Federal News Radio, September 27, 2016 The National Treasury Employees Union wants the Internal Revenue Service to retrain thousands of employees facing pink slips for...

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Ige appoints new director for troubled state tax department

Source: Kevin Dayton, Honolulu Star Advertiser, December 6, 2017   Gov. David Ige today named Linda Chu Takayama as the new director of the state Department of Taxation in an effort to quickly replace...

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Kansas agency chief on no-bid contracts: ‘It’s all public record’

Source: Jonathan Shorman, Wichita Eagle, May 11, 2018   Kansas lawmakers voiced frustration this week that they were unaware the state’s revenue agency had entered into no-bid contracts worth millions,...

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