Paying your taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is always a good idea. What many taxpayers don’t know is falling delinquent on federal taxes may result in you losing your passport. Travel and Leisure editors report there are certain circumstances in which a passport application may be denied or a current passport revoked if you fail to pay your taxes.
According to the IRS, if the agency sends a delinquent debt certification to the State Department, the agency won’t issue a passport to the taxpayer involved. Before things go that far, the IRS must send the taxpayer a Notice of Intent to Levy to give them time to satisfy any delinquency. There are notable exceptions in which the tax agency won’t notify the State Department.
If the tax obligation is currently uncollectible because of hardship, identity theft, bankruptcy, or living in a federally declared disaster area, the taxpayer will be spared any problem involving a passport. If you’re also involved in a good faith effort to pay the delinquency, such as an active payment plan worked out with the IRS, your passport will not be in jeopardy.
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