New Law Would Deny or Rescind Your Passport

[Think Different]

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/ ... taxpayers/


LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law.

Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in November by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Los Angeles) to “reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposesâ€￾ .

After clearing the Senate on a 74 – 22 vote on March 14, SB 1813 is now headed for a vote in the House of Representatives, where it’s expected to encounter stiffer opposition among the GOP majority.

In addition to authorizing appropriations for federal transportation and infrastructure programs, the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Actâ€￾ or “MAP-21″ includes a provision that would allow for the “revocation or denialâ€￾ of a passport for anyone with “certain unpaid taxesâ€￾ or “tax delinquenciesâ€￾.

Section 40304 of the legislation states that any individual who owes more than $50,000 to the Internal Revenue Service may be subject to “action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passportâ€￾.

The bill does allow for exceptions in the event of emergency or humanitarian situations or limited return travel to the U.S., or in cases when any tax debt is currently being repaid in a “timely mannerâ€￾ or when collection efforts have been suspended.

However, there does not appear to be any specific language requiring a taxpayer to be charged with tax evasion or any other crime in order to have their passport revoked or limited — only that a notice of lien or levy has been filed by the IRS.

Boxer vowed last week to push House Republicans to pass the bipartisan transportation bill that would keep the Highway Trust Fund from going bankrupt.

“Thousands of businesses are at stake, and eventually we are talking about nearly three million jobs at stake,â€￾ she said in a statement. “There are many people on both sides of the aisle in the Senate who want to get our bill, MAP-21, passed into law, and I am going to do everything I can to keep the pressure on the Republican House to do just that.â€￾

[Jester]

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/04/ ... taxpayers/


LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law.

Thanks for posting this.

[OutWest]

[Think Different]

I've been talking about a "virtual Berlin Wall" going up around the USA for a long time now...

You'd have to be blind not to see it now. Remember -- for you youngsters -- the Berlin Wall was built more to keep the East Germans IN, and not to keep the West out.

[zboy1]

They laughed at Ron Paul...And he was right!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/a ... 09463.html

[Contrarian Expatriate]

They laughed at Ron Paul...And he was right!

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/a ... 09463.html

Good point. My tax attorney said the US passed a law that requires you to pay US taxes for ten years after you renounce your citizenship.

This country is well on its way to hell in a handbasket!

[ladislav]

Sounds like Saudi Arabia now. Or any other Middle Eastern country. Well, we'd better stay poor and not owe 50,000 in unpaid taxes.

[onezero4u]

thats crazy scary!!! wait til the tax rates go up to 75% then youll see big brother in his full glory.

boxer is a fukin CUNT btw.

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renounce your citizenship & keep paying taxes for 10 years!!?!?! WTF ?!!??!?!

its frightening that people still think a bigger more expensive and powerful government can better solve our problems (whereas it IS the problem)

[Storm11_girl]

Sounds like Saudi Arabia now. Or any other Middle Eastern country. Well, we'd better stay poor and not owe 50,000 in unpaid taxes.

no ladislav, its not like Saudi Arabia or any tax and debt free Middle Eastern country.

its only the West. same old same old attitude in critisizing others than themselves

oh and anyone critisizing the laws of any western country is called " anti-american " or " anti-democracy "

just go stick with communism ladislav , i miss hearing the critisim of china and russia over them

[Jester]

Sounds like Saudi Arabia now. Or any other Middle Eastern country. Well, we'd better stay poor and not owe 50,000 in unpaid taxes.

no ladislav, its not like Saudi Arabia or any tax and debt free Middle Eastern country.

its only the West. same old same old attitude in critisizing others than themselves

oh and anyone critisizing the laws of any western country is called " anti-american " or " anti-democracy "

just go stick with communism ladislav , i miss hearing the critisim of china and russia over them

Storm, I believe that Ladislav may have been referring to the law that exists some places, wherein one cannot leave the country if there is an unpaid fine or debt. I have heard of this in Dubai. Perhaps "The Kingdom" is the same in this regard.

Kind of a Uniform Commerical Code/Maritime Law approach to the problem of unpaid debts. Slap a lien on the debtor himself!
Anglo-Saxon civil rights do not exist everywhere. And increasingly not even in Anglo-Saxon places.

[ladislav]

Sounds like Saudi Arabia now. Or any other Middle Eastern country. Well, we'd better stay poor and not owe 50,000 in unpaid taxes.

no ladislav, its not like Saudi Arabia or any tax and debt free Middle Eastern country.

its only the West. same old same old attitude in critisizing others than themselves

oh and anyone critisizing the laws of any western country is called " anti-american " or " anti-democracy "

just go stick with communism ladislav , i miss hearing the critisim of china and russia over them

In Saudi Arabia you need an exit visa to leave. If you owe someone money, God forbid the Saudi gov't, you can't leave. Saudis also need exit visas. Same in Oman.
Not exactly taxes, but just oweing and the gov't not letting you leave.

[fschmidt]

From "The Lessons of History" by Will and Ariel Durant about Rome under Diocletian:

"The task of controlling men in economic detail proved too much for Diocletian's expanding, expensive, and corrupt bureaucracy. To support this officialdom – the army, the courts, public works, and the dole – taxation rose to such heights that people lost the incentive to work or earn, and an erosive contest began between lawyers finding devices to evade taxes and lawyers formulating laws to prevent evasion. Thousands of Romans, to escape the tax gatherer, fled over the frontiers to seek refuge among the barbarians. Seeking to check this elusive mobility and to facilitate regulation and taxation, the government issued decrees binding the peasant to his field and the worker to his shop until all their debts and taxes had been paid. In this and other ways medieval serfdom began."

[ErikHeaven]

And the sheeple still support Obama!

[Jester]

From "The Lessons of History" by Will and Ariel Durant about Rome under Diocletian:

"The task of controlling men in economic detail proved too much for Diocletian's expanding, expensive, and corrupt bureaucracy. To support this officialdom – the army, the courts, public works, and the dole – taxation rose to such heights that people lost the incentive to work or earn, and an erosive contest began between lawyers finding devices to evade taxes and lawyers formulating laws to prevent evasion. Thousands of Romans, to escape the tax gatherer, fled over the frontiers to seek refuge among the barbarians. Seeking to check this elusive mobility and to facilitate regulation and taxation, the government issued decrees binding the peasant to his field and the worker to his shop until all their debts and taxes had been paid. In this and other ways medieval serfdom began."

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[casseyking]

The Washington Post reports that the United States Senate has passed a two-year, $109 billion bipartisan transportation bill Wed by a vote of 74-22. Sources indicate that the U.S. Senate transportation and highway bill can create jobs and improve the infrastructure through which commerce flows, such as the United States interstate highway system. Well, according to the Washington Post, the current U.S. transportation bill expires on March 31. In fact, once the bill is approved by the House and President Obama, it will go into effect and save thousands of road construction jobs from being put on hiatus. Article source: Senate passes transportation bill that curtails growth of toll roads.