{"id":1549,"date":"2018-01-21T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-21T18:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2018-01-18T15:03:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T20:03:46","slug":"spend-more-make-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"Spend More Make Less?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-209224.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-209224-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-209224-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-209224-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/pexels-photo-209224-1024x683.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The IRS outsourced tax collection in an effort to &#8220;put a dent in the $138 billion that taxpayers owe the government.&#8221; \u00a0This action cost the agency $20 million and netted a little over six million in past due monies. \u00a0Combined with contractor payments\u00a0and relatively low collection rates, other cost factors included the streamlined approval of &#8220;tax-exempt organizations&#8221; as well as lack of funding for better direct (IRS) communication with tax payers.<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/10\/business\/economy\/irs-debt-collection.html\">I.R.S. Paid $20 Million to Collect $6.7 Million in Tax Debts<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IRS outsourced tax collection in an effort to &#8220;put a dent in the $138 billion that taxpayers owe the government.&#8221; \u00a0This action cost the agency $20 million and netted a little over six million in past due monies. \u00a0Combined with contractor payments\u00a0and relatively low collection rates, other cost factors included the streamlined approval of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1549\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spend More Make Less?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1109,1106,597,69,1108,469,1107,1111,1110,201],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","tag-cost-factors","tag-funding","tag-government","tag-irs","tag-millions-of-dollars","tag-new-york-times","tag-private-contractor","tag-public-trust","tag-tax-exempt-organizations","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}