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Senate advances bill allowing private collectors for long-unpaid taxes, sets pilot and audit
Summary
The Utah Senate advanced SB47 on Jan. 20, 1994, to allow the Tax Commission to refer tax accounts older than 24 months to private collectors (who may receive up to 33% of recoveries); the measure was advanced with oversight provisions including a 1995 audit and a 1996 sunset.
Senator Lane Beatty, sponsor of Senate Bill 47, told the Senate on Jan. 20, 1994, the bill would let the state Tax Commission refer accounts 24 months after assessment to private collection firms as part of a limited pilot to recover long-unpaid liabilities. "Those private collectors can, for that amount, receive up to 33%," Beatty said on the floor.
Beatty said the pilot targets accounts the commission has deemed effectively uncollectible through ordinary administrative channels and that the program would be monitored through a dedicated fund so auditors…
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