"collection office" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to an office that is responsible for collecting or organizing payments, dues, or other items. For example, "The collection office will need to receive payment for the services by the end of the month."
Not to mention tax revenue, tourism, retail sales, garbage collection, office productivity and even efforts to ward off terrorism.
After the Deepwater Horizon spill, the regulatory agency was broken into parts, dividing the revenue collection office from the oversight division to eliminate conflicts of interest.
"They come in and ask, 'How can you stand it in here?' " said an employee in the tax collection office who did not want to be named for fear of losing her job.
The collection office for Manhattan is on the ground floor, facing Centre St., and there was a line about four people wide snaking out of the office, down the steps, north along Centre to the corner of the bldg.
The fire marshal went to prison; and an official in the tax collection office, a water department employee, a plumbing inspector, and head of the police vice squad each committed suicide after criminal exposures.
The murage loft in the market, redundant since the completion of the city walls, took over the functions of the old tollhouse and became the offices of the market supervisor and the collection office for market tolls and taxes.
Interior Minister Annamaria Cancellieri pledged to redeploy more than 24,000 police and military officers to stop attacks on tax collection offices, monitor at-risk institutions and "neutralize" subversive activities.
The tax official, Dimitris Georgakopoulos, who was in charge of dozens of tax collection offices, submitted his resignation on Wednesday after a performance evaluation, the officials said.
The parking ticket collection offices in the five boroughs appear to be a model of efficiency; accused miscreants go through the places at a near sprint.
There has also been a rise in violence against tax collection offices — mostly carried out by indebted and frustrated taxpayers — as well as other institutions, like the military and the aerospace group Finmeccanica, which has been singled out by radical groups that pattern themselves after the terrorists that kept Italy under siege in the 1970s and 1980s.
To try to break what Ms. Stavraki described as a "personal, human" rapport that many Greeks have with their tax collectors, the state is reducing the number of collection offices to 72 from more than 200, and introducing a centralized electronic database system.
