Tax
Feb. 16, 2017
10 ways to keep the IRS from taking away your passport
The IRS has finally released new details on its website. If you have seriously delinquent tax debt, IRS can notify the State Department. By Robert W. Wood
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
The Internal Revenue Service now has new power over passports. The IRS can't take your passport exactly, but it can tell the State Department to do so. Whether this is a good idea can be debated, but it is now the law. It wasn't even an executive order that did it. It came from Congress over a year ago in H.R.22, adding Section 7345 to the tax code. It isn't limited to criminal tax cases, or even cases where the IRS thinks you ar...
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