Press Releases (continued)

July 2006
7/20/06 NTEU Welcomes Bipartisan Letter from Congress Calling for A Halt in IRS Privatization Program 
7/13/06 Elderly Social Security Recipients Open To Harassment By Private Debt Collectors Under IRS Outsourcing Plan
7/5/06

Kelley Calls on IRS to Drop Privatization Plan; Major Collector Abuses Detailed In Media Report

May 2006
5/9/06 Taxpayer Advocate, TIGTA Concerns Spotlight Key Flaws in IRS Privatization Plan, Kelley Says
April 2006
4/19/06 Debt Collection Industry Again Tops FTC Complaint List; NTEU’s Kelley Warns of Turning Taxpayer Data Over to It 
4/7/06 Growing Concern Over Tax Collection Privatization Should Signal the IRS to Abandon the Program, Kelley Says 
4/4/06 Second TIGTA Report Slams IRS TAC-Closing Data As Incomplete, Inaccurate and Unreliable 
March 2006
3/29/06 Key House Committee Members Support NTEU Position On Dangers, Costs of IRS Tax Debt Privatization Plan
3/27/06 Latest GAO Report on IRS Internal Data Security Shows Unacceptable Risks to Taxpayer Information 
3/24/06 TIGTA Report Shows Shoddy Work by IRS In Critical Customer Service Decision-Making 
3/24/06 Forced Delay in Tax Debt Privatization Program Reflects Serious Problems with IRS Contracting 
3/23/06 Statement of NTEU President Colleen M. Kelley On the TIGTA Report on IRS Proposed TAC Closings 
3/22/06 Kelley Calls IRS Proposal to Permit Sale of Tax Data To Marketers An Outrageous Assault on Taxpayer Privacy
3/21/06 NTEU’s Kelley Calls for Full Review Of IRS Tax Debt Privatization Awards 
3/14/06 NTEU President Kelley Faults IRS for Failure to Tell Public About Risks To Their Personal Tax Information 
3/9/06 NTEU’s Kelley Calls IRS Tax Debt Privatization Contract Awards A ‘Sad Day’ for Taxpayers 
3/8/06 NTEU Files National Grievance Challenging IRS Insistence On Closing Chicago, Houston Call Sites
3/1/06 Full Information on Tax Debt Privatization Would Outrage Public, Kelley Tells Spirited NTEU Rally
February 2006
2/23/06 NTEU Wins Court Ruling Overturning Illegal IRS Act In Giving Its Mailroom Function to Private Contractor
2/15/06 NTEU Urges New Methods to Increase IRS Enforcement, Service Budgets 
2/14/06 The Key to Closing the Tax Gap Is Investing In the IRS Workforce, NTEU’s Kelley Says
2/9/06 IRS 2007 Budget Follows Agency Pattern of Selective Use of Data, Kelley Tells Oversight Board
2/7/06 IRS Named One of the Country’s Most Efficient Collection Systems, So Why Outsource?
2/6/06 NTEU Leader Critical of IRS Budget Proposals That Would Result in Sharp Cuts in Taxpayer Service
January 2006
1/30/06 Kelley Seeks Response to IRS “Noncompliance” With Clear Congressional Mandate on Taxpayer Service Cuts
1/24/06 NTEU Leader Calls on IRS Commissioner to Use New Authority to Bring Work Back to Agency Employees 
1/23/06 NTEU Pressure, Congressional Action Result In IRS Dropping Plans to Cut Telephone Tax Help
1/11/06 Taxpayer Service Cuts Opposed by NTEU Tops List of Concerns Identified By Taxpayer Advocate
 

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