House Rejects IRS Program« Thread Started on Oct 12, 2007, 10:51am » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------House Rejects IRS ProgramBy Stephen BarrThursday, October 11, 2007; Page D01 read at source> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con....src=newsle tterThe House voted yesterday to kill an Internal Revenue Service program that uses private companies to track down delinquent taxpayers and lets the companies keep a percentage of the taxes they collect. The vote, generally on party lines, was 232 to 173. House Democrats portrayed the program as a contracting failure by the Bush administration, with start-up costs of $71 million, five times higher than initially projected. "It is high time we repeal an abusive and misguided debt collection program," Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), one of the bill's chief sponsors, said. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------