Hello, my name is Benjamin Heart, an American attorney and the managing director of Savory Legal Ears Bangkok Thailand. This video will briefly discuss passport revocation in the context of delinquent US taxes. There's another video on this channel which briefly discusses the general issues surrounding passport revocation, so I'm not going to go into the specifics of passport regulations or revocation in general. What I'm going to be talking about briefly in this video is passport revocation as a direct result of delinquent US taxes. Now, to be clear, this is a fairly new phenomenon. This decision is the result of fairly recently enacted legislation under the Obama administration. As of January 1, 2016, it became possible for US passports or renewal thereof or issuance thereof to be denied if an individual was in arrears to the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, essentially for delinquent taxes. Now, to be clear, there have been some recent developments on this. I'm taking this information from the website zerohedge, which has an article submitted by Robert on forbes.com. It also references directly the IRS website, which I have gone ahead and read a recent announcement or recent posting on the IRS website regarding this. But it's very interesting to note, and these are the things that are just getting all the ways before him, so quoting from the IRS website directly, "If you have seriously delinquent tax debt, the IRS can notify the State Department. The State Department generally will not issue or renew a passport after receiving certification from the IRS." As of the time of this writing, which is February 3, 2017, the IRS has not yet started certifying tax debt to the State Department. Why is it important? Let me briefly go through the overall situation. The law change and the enactment...
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