Tax
Mar. 15, 2019
Protect your passport from the IRS
The IRS can't take your passport exactly, but it can tell the State Department to do so. Whether this is a good idea can be debated, but it is the law.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
The IRS can't take your passport exactly, but it can tell the State Department to do so. Whether this is a good idea can be debated, but it is the law. It wasn't even an executive order that did it. The change by Congress came in the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, adding Section 7345 to the tax code. See Pub. L No. 114-94. It isn't limited to criminal tax cases, or even to cases where the IRS thinks you are trying to fl...
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