When state lawmakers gave cash-strapped municipalities the power to pay fees to private tax collection companies in 1994, it wasn’t a bid to make the process kinder and gentler.
But even though courts have been ruling that the private collection companies have no constitutional duty to forewarn delinquent taxpayers of the potential sting of collection fees, it’s becoming a routine practice because it prods people to pay off their tax debts.
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