IRS by the numbers

IRS enforced collection activity continues to heat up.  Compromise settlements are down by 70% while bad debt accounts continue to accumulate.  Here are the numbers:
1.     779,000 taxpayer accounts were assigned to the IRS collection queue.
2.     The number of offers in compromises accepted by the IRS declined by 70% from 2001 (38,643) to 2007 (11,618).
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