Virginia Outsources Taxpayer Refund System, Private Companies Profit

Virginia Outsources Taxpayer Refund System, Private Companies Profit: In 2012, Virginia’s Republican-controlled legislature enacted a budget provision that effectively forced the state’s tax department to outsource its refund system to a debit card company, claiming it would save the government hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. But the state’s deal with Xerox to replace tax refund checks with Comerica-issued debit card has meant [...]/p