It’s difficult to make tax collection management interesting, but D.C. Attorney General Irv Nathan sure is trying.

Want to show your gratitude to the garbage collector who had to pick up the remnants of your last house party with a modest gift card? Yeah, don’t.

Some positive budget news from the District’s Chief Financial Officer today: thanks to an uptick in tax revenue, the city’s budget gap for fiscal year 2012 has been reduced from as high as an estimated $600 million to about $322 million.

D.C. Public Schools is facing a projected $30 million budget gap due to special education overruns, reports Bill Turque — and you know what that kind of talk leads to: the threat of more teacher layoffs. “Using the budgeted average of $85,000 in salary and benefits per teacher, closing a $25 million gap would require a reduction of about 300 jobs,” writes Turque. Additionally, Michelle Rhee said on Wednesday that she was ready “to take…