Forbes: President Trump’s executive order on travel may be generating big protests, but an IRS missive on travel and passports may not go down too well either. More than a year ago, in H.R.22, Congress gave the IRS a new weapon to collect taxes. Tax code Section 7345 is labeled, “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.” The law isn’t limited to criminal tax cases, or even cases where the IRS thinks you are trying to flee. The idea of the law is to use travel as a way to enforce tax collections. It was proposed and rejected in 2012. But by late 2015, Congress passed it and President Obama signed it.
Now, over a year later, the IRS has finally released new details on its website. If you have seriously delinquent tax debt, IRS can notify the State Department. The State Department generally will not issue or renew a passport after receiving certification from the IRS. The IRS has not yet started certifying tax debt to the State Department. The IRS says certifications will begin in early 2017, and the IRS website will be updated to indicate when this process has been implemented. MORE
OH HELL YEAH!
You couldn’t LEAVE the country?
Has sort of a socialistic theme, doesn’t it?
East Germany comes to mind …
izlamo delenda est …
I mean, I hope that Charlie Rangle and Al Sharpton have passports and are traveling abroad when they get busted. 😈
I’m over 60 and never had a passport can’t think of any country I want to visit.
I’m not politically correct and they would not like me very much.
Sweet. Please don’t pay your taxes Hollywood celebriTards. Please don’t pay your taxes snotD3rp, please don’t pay your taxes all you fine rappers. Please leave the country before you all don’t pay your taxes. I said please, so don’t get all up in my stuff. I have a passport and I pay my taxes.
Considering that with the average US citizen, if you owe taxes, the IRS will garnish your wages, put a freeze on your bank accounts or take your property – how TF are people like Sharpton getting away with not paying their taxes, except by corrupt complicit politicians?
Like Koskinen would enforce such a rule. An opportunity for additional retirement $$.
Let me know if it happens routinely and equitably.
Good!
Al Franken and Timothy Geithner come to mind.
Doesn’t Buffet owe some tax money especially all that extra money that he wanted to be paid by rich people?
I thought Obama was the “Open Borders” guy?
He was, unless there’s an opportunity to get more federal money to spend on Palestinians, terrorists, BLM and community organizers,
That may put a dent in Al Sharpton’s European vacation.
Good. I pay my friggin’ taxes even though it pisses me off. Make all the retards who vote dem or don’t vote at all feel the consequence of their actions
If their passports were no longer sufficient for re-entry to the US, then it may might work.
Just how is a debtor supposed to get iff shore to raise Money the IRS WILL NOT KNOW ABOUT?
Since they didn’t have passports back in slave days, maybe we can revoke Revrum Al’s ancestors’ original bill of sale instead, and send him and all his relatives back to Africa.
Ya think?
🙂
This is utterly wrong: punishment without due process. Think about it for more than 10 seconds and you’ll begin to see why this is yet another way the govt is out of control. If someone has been convicted of a crime, and “administrative tax court” actions don’t count, then yanking a passport could be part of the sentence. But ONLY if.
I agree with Unky.
That’s not who we are, that’s who Obamabm is.
Pull the delinquents into court, snare some of the top politicians, race baters, and Hollywood.
Does this mean we’re stuck with Al Sharpton till hell freezes over?
@Ol ‘ Gringo: Or until an Irish magazine publishes a picture of him with the image of a sniper scope on his head.
Dudes,
I received my expected audit by the IRS about the time period
I would expect. The letter reported that I’d stopped paying federal
taxes and that they were going to maximize my withdrawals at my US
employer’s level until I re’commenced paying federal taxes.
I am a US citizen in the territory of Guam. I am Guam residen
and do not pay taxes to the US, I pay them to GovGuam.
A phone call to the Texas IRS office, 2.5 hours on the phone, and
now I will never be bothered by the IRS again.
Get it?
There’s a reason wesley snipes went to prison.
Why the phock is sharpton and jackson not in prison?
Take their passports.