IRS Moves To Revoke Passports For Unpaid Taxes – IOTW Report

IRS Moves To Revoke Passports For Unpaid Taxes

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

20 Comments on IRS Moves To Revoke Passports For Unpaid Taxes

  1. 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.

  2. 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?

  3. 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?

    🙂

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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