The Revenue Department began collecting debt for universities in 2008, but this year the department shifted all of its attention on tax debt — saying that the state collects 39 times more revenue per fiscal year by doing so. It also argues hiring and maintaining debt collectors for universities has proven exceedingly challenging.
Decide if you would rather have us to tell you to do it via statutory directive or whether you’d like to have the latitude of having a third party assist you in doing it.
Sen. David Givens
Since 2023, the number of university collectors on staff has fallen by nearly half.
Tom Miller,…

