[rushpat]

Another one that has been bugging me is "Due Process Hearing" or "Collection Due Process Hearing".

If you ask for one of these, it just sounds like you are admitting that you are under their jurisdiction. If a taxing agency comes to you and tells you that you owe them, why should you call for a due process hearing, unless you are just haggling over the amount and not the validity of the whole thing?

We don't engage in due process hearings with 3rd party debt collectors do we? We don't engage in due process hearings with other sovereigns do we? I'm sorry, but asking for one just makes me think that it is another way of a slave begging mercy from his master.

I hope I didn't offend anyone with that, but due process hearing doesn't sound like something that you should ask for unless you are a taxpayer. I wouldn't think that a nontaxpayer would have anything to do with it.