> Biggest scam of the century that governments have outsourced tax collection. Not sure if this is what you were getting at but in Pennsylvania, US, the school

> Biggest scam of the century that governments have outsourced tax collection. Not sure if this is what you were getting at but in Pennsylvania, US, the school and local taxes are collected by a variety of law firms / tax firms with no relation to the government because they are entirely private firms that have been given full reins. So the municipal tax firm for county A may not be the same for county B. What makes this even more terrifying is you only learn this when you get your first "pay us or else" letter from a law firm that essentially is just "we are your municipal tax authority, pay us $600 because we have calculated you are wrong". And apparently they are frequently wrong and assume best case scenarios in their favor. There's a huge collection of "Is this a scam?" questions about it online. For an example of how terrible they are, if you move to PA in May, there is a very good chance they'll demand taxes for the year previous to when you lived there. That's what happened to me and apparently many others.