IRS Plans to Revoke Americans’ Passports for Unpaid Taxes

‘Amid controversy and fierce protests surrounding President Donald Trump’s recent immigration ban against seven Muslim-majority countries, Congress has quietly given the IRS the green light to revoke passports for unpaid taxes.
The “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies” code does not focus on flight risks or criminal tax cases, but is aimed instead at enforcing collections by threatening a US citizen’s freedom of international movement.
Congress passed the measure in 2015, and it was signed by then-President Barack Obama, after first being proposed, and then rejected, in 2012.’
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