FAST Act Causes Travel Delays (and Headaches) for Seriously Delinquent Taxpayers
02.08.18
Effective January 1, 2018, U.S. taxpayers with over $50,000 of seriously delinquent tax debt (including interest and penalties) face passport denial, revocation, or limitation. An obscure provision of the 2015 Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act authorized the IRS to issue certifications to the State Department for the purpose of denying, revoking or limiting passports of “seriously delinquent taxpayers.” If a taxpayer is certified as being seriously delinquent, that certification remains in place until the debt is paid in full or the IRS accepts the taxpayer’s Installment Agreement or Offer in Compromise.
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