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RBS Worldpay - the electronic payment processor that admitted it exposed sensitive financial records for millions of customers - has been awarded a contract by the Internal Revenue Service to process tax return payments next year. The company, which is a division of the Royal Bank of Scotland, will begin processing taxpayers' …

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  1. Graham Marsden
    Pirate

    "convenience fee"???

    > amounting to 1.95 percent of the amount a taxpayer owes.

    That's not a "convenience fee", it's a licence to print money!

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  3. Charles
    Happy

    At least the IRS contract has caveats.

    When I first read the article, I was thinking "WTFH?!" Then I read at the end that the IRS is conditioning the contract on RBS Worldpay coming clean. This might be a good thing after all--now they have two big incentives to clean up their act--those convenience fees and the fact the US government will stick it where they don't want it, if you get my drift, if they screw up again.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    The IRS are getting stiffed

    1.95% for an e commerce transaction at the volumes that the IRS get is a total shafting.

    I wonder what the chargeback clauses are in the contract as well.

    Nice work if you can get it at that rate!

    Paris, when it comes to shafting she knows best

  5. Tom Wood
    Thumb Up

    Fine by me

    Since RBS is practically owned by the British taxpayer, I quite like that we will profit from Americans paying their taxes...

  6. Henry Wertz Gold badge
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    no "convenience" for me!

    the city and county here do this too. I come in in person, they say "oh you could do this online blah-de-blah" and i point out "no, i will not pay an additional fee to save you the cost of dealing with a check, thanks."

    i've filled out paper tax forms as well.. Initially i'd have to pay to e-file, and now i don't trust some 3rd party who would e-file for free to not sell or data mine my tax data. I doubt they are bound by the same rules as the irs.

  7. raving angry loony

    fair play

    In Canada, as far as I know, there is no extra fee to e-file (called NetFile) their taxes. Quite civilized really. Americans are about to get royally screwed by the UK owned RBS. Only fair though, since the Americans have royally screwed over the UK several times in the past.

  8. Graham Marsden
    Happy

    Re: Convenience Fee...

    ... it's just occurred to me that, since the bailout, we now own 60% of RBS...

    Hmm!

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    @Tom Wood

    But remember the US gov is not afraid to sue or break contracts. IF RBS fucks with the IRS the IRS will bend RBS over and use an 80 grit lube

  10. kain preacher

    IRS audit

    They must pass and IRS audit. needs to be rephrased survive an ass rapping. There is a reason why people have tried to blow the IRS up. If bin Laden owed back taxes , the IRS would of found 6 years ago.

  11. Jeremy
    Happy

    Re: The IRS are getting stiffed

    Read it again, the IRS aren't getting stiffed, the taxpayers are picking up the tab (of course). The IRS aren't that stupid.

  12. Igor Mozolevsky
    Gates Horns

    or maybe...

    ... IRS are banking or WorldPay screwing up and consequently taking them to court for hefty damages?.. just imagine - potentially details of every taxpayer in the states could be exposed...

  13. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Wahoo....

    The US tax payers get to pay back the UK Tax payers.....

    Sounds good to me......

  14. bass daddy

    To me ... to you

    How can you be awarded something if you still have to prove you are capable of performing the task?

    Sounds like another job for 'Bodgeit and Scarper'

  15. Igor Mozolevsky
    Gates Horns

    RE: To me ... to you

    well, that's how the banks seem to work... although I'm not sure about the proving they are capable of performing the task bit...

  16. Mark Monaghan
    Alert

    Hasn't this been tried before?

    An ineffective government burdened by huge debts and an antiquated financial system unable to manage them, decides to subcontract out the collecting of taxes...

    France 1789

  17. Anonymous Coward
    Coat

    Imagine for a moment that...

    all that taxpayer data got hacked. All that information out in the wild. There would then be no reason to assume that government departments were illegally sharing data or that the IRS had previously been hacked. What better way, I ask, is there to cover up data loss than let a foreign company that doesn't meet industry standard for data protection have all your data.

    I LOVE a conspiracy theory.

    mine's the coat with the tinfoil hat in the pocket

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