Tax practitioners alerted to changes in IRS collection process.

• Position: Tax info

This fall, field collection officers from the Internal Revenue Service will operate under new, streamlined guidelines aimed to improve service, increase consistency and speed the collection of past-due taxes. In a June 15 Webcast, Tax Talk Todayr panelists helped prepare practitioners for those changes by bringing together top IRS collection managers and private-sector tax practitioners to discuss them.

New procedures that will affect how practitioners represent clients in collection...