The IRS can revoke your passport in certain circumstances. However, the agency does not do this directly. Instead, if the requirements have been met, the IRS will certify your tax debt to the U.S. State Department and they revoke or deny you a passport. To prevent this from happening or get your passport back
According to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article, over 362,000 people currently hold a tax debt that would make them ineligible for renewal or issuance of passports. Under a law passed in 2015, the IRS can refuse to issue or renew passports or can revoke passports of seriously delinquent taxpayers. An IRS spokesperson
Most people know the government can go after taxpayers who owe back taxes. However, few individuals realize that both New York State and the IRS now have the ability to restrict delinquent taxpayers’ ability to travel, whether by suspending their driver’s licenses or by revoking their passports. New York Driver’s License Suspension New York
Thanks to a law passed at the end of 2015, the IRS can revoke passports of seriously delinquent taxpayers. The law is another attempt to collect on the large amount of taxes owed to the government. According to the Washington Times, in 2014, the IRS reported 12.4 million delinquent accounts owed nearly $131 billion in
