In the US, passports will be canceled for tax evasion

In December, the US Congress will introduce a new law, giving the right to the government of the country to cancel the passport of a citizen who does not pay taxes to the state. According to the Wall Street Journal , the law will also allow officials not to give state debtors a new passport.

Most likely, the law will work from January. Fearing the loss of a passport is worth those Americans who owe the state $ 50,000 or more in unpaid taxes, including fines and interest. According to the estimates of the Joint Taxation Committee, this step will allow the country to save about $ 398 million over the next ten years.

Without a passport a person will not be able to go abroad. True, those US citizens who travel in charitable missions will be able to get permission to travel abroad.
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In this case, from 2016 in the United States may begin to require a passport for local flights. Accordingly, this kind of travel will also become impossible for the debtor.

Interestingly, the new law applies to Americans who temporarily or permanently reside abroad. For these people, revoking a passport can be disastrous. And only in 2014, the United States Revenue Service (eng. Internal Revenue Service) sent 855 thousand notifications to debtors abroad. Without a passport, US citizens living abroad will not be able to carry out banking operations, register in hotels, send children to study.

A US citizen passport is a document that certifies US citizenship abroad. Gives it to the State Department. Get a US passport can a person born in the United States or naturalized. Also get his face, born on the territory of Puerto Rico, Guam, US Virgin and Northern Mariana Islands. Within the United States passport is almost never used.