IRS Says You Owe Tax? Congress Will Take Your Passport Starting January 1

“House and Senate conference committee members worked this week on putting together a final version of the funding bill — the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act (HR 22) — that would then be voted on in both houses of Congress. The conference committee can be expected to produce a bill including the passport denial and revocation provision given that such a provision was included in the bill’s versions already passed in the House and Senate. ‘The list of affected taxpayers will be compiled by the Internal Revenue Service using a threshold of $50,000 of unpaid federal taxes, including penalties and interest, which would be adjusted for inflation,’ predicts the WSJ.”

http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/congress-alert/2015/november/20/do-you-owe-taxes-congress-wants-to-take-your-passport/