Posted on 11/21/2015 11:25:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
When you owe the IRS tens of thousands of dollars in past-due taxes, you can expect to owe big penalties and interest.
And soon you could even lose your U.S. passport.
Lawmakers are in the final stages of negotiation over a bill to provide funding for U.S. highways and transit programs. One provision in it would let the federal government revoke, deny or limit a U.S. citizen's passport if the person owes more than $50,000 in "seriously delinquent tax debt," including penalties and interest.
It would only apply to those people whom the IRS has filed a lien or levy against and who have not yet worked out a repayment plan to satisfy the debt. An exception could be made for anyone who is actively disputing their case or who needs to travel for emergency or humanitarian purposes.
Should the provision pass next month, it would go into effect on Jan. 1, 2016.
ou may wonder what past-due taxes and passports have to do with funding transportation infrastructure. The answer is pretty much nothing, except that the measure is estimated to raise nearly $400 million over a decade. And that can defray some of the bill's cost since lawmakers decided, among other things, not to raise the federal gas tax.
"This is going to have an extraordinary impact [in terms of getting people to pay up]," said Los Angeles-based tax lawyer Dennis Brager, a former IRS trial attorney who thinks the measure is too draconian.
For starters, Brager said, it's not that hard to owe $50,000 because penalties and interest can add up very quickly.
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He has created many new offices to collect taxes, and tax collectors have ... and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Soon the wall will be built. And it won’t be to keep Mexicans out. And then one day we will have an F-22 pilot defecting to freedom.
Amazing how this government has gone on a rocketsled to authoritarianism.
Yup.
Welcome to the Nuevo Soviet Union.
We own you, Prole. Everything you have...is ours. Pay up, or you go to the camps.
re: Amazing how this government has gone on a rocketsled to authoritarianism
Congress has the authority to make tax laws. They should pass a law to curb this abuse of power. And yes, tie it to the budget debate and be prepared to shut down the government for it.
If they can’t even fight for this basic freedom, they’re USELESS.
And another minor point...the agency that employed Lois Lerner and John Koskinen will now decide if you can leave the country or not?
First person to have their passport pulled is Warren Buffett.
So then Al Sharpton will lose his passport?
Is Al Sharpton paying down his tax debt at all?
It's not like both of them are multiple felons. Oh, wait.
Actually, I've been thinking about it, and I think a strong case could be made that any IRS employee who knows what Lerner did, and didn't report the felonies for prosecution, is an accessory after the fact. Felons, in other words.
This would include MOST IRS employees, because they ALL receive training in what constitutes a felony when you give confidential taxpayer files to people or organizations who are NOT on a VERY short list.
Most IRS employees probably know that she gave confidential taxpayer files to the wrong recipients. And NONE that we know have blown the whistle.
The Department of Commerce has similar training, but NO ONE and No AGENCY can receive confidential respondent files or information. You're trained VERY CAREFULLY on these things.
yeah what about illegal aliens gonna take their passports? or are they all on welfare and not paying taxes?
idiots
LOL!
Can we stop the biggest non-payer of all, the US government, from having the right to issue passports until they pay their bill?
Will most of the Obama Admin also lose their Passport ?
And George Soros
Recognition that people are leaving America because of high taxes; you won’t be permitted to leave unless you’re paid up. The IRS continues its slide down the slope as an arm of political tyranny.
Yes, exactly.
It’s breathtaking the level of crimes that have simply been ignored in all of this.
A bureaucracy that is now in full blown rebellion against the law. If the Congress were to cut their budget to zero tomorrow, I’m sure they’d continue to just send out bills to people and collect the money whether they have a right to or now.
It’s that far gone. I have had Federal employees tell me “well, we work for the Executive Branch. Congress can’t tell us what to do”.
They really do think they are an untouchable aristocracy now.
A “Justice” department that is an active co-conspirator? The FBI puts on a pantomime show of investigating, and does nothing? The IG’s are actually threatened?!
That’s unbelievable. But that’s how far down the gangsta boy who the idiots voted for has taken us.
Nixon had nothing on these thugs. Damn choirboy by comparison.
And if you’re a dual citizen living abroad, you can’t denounce your U.S. citizenship without having paid up on taxes and paying another $3K as a processing fee for your renunciation. It’s a racket.
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