Passport Revoked For IRS Debt?

[Ayatollahgondola]

I tend to be skeptical of some claims I read on websites like World Net Daily, and InfoWars, so after reading this bit about the feds refusing to issue a passport if you owe taxes to the IRS, I thought I'd research it myself:

Much to my dismay, it ended up being true. Here is the text of that section of this huge bill that covers about a zillion different things.

24 ‘‘SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT.
25 ‘‘(a) INELIGIBILITY.—
VerDate Mar 1‘‘(1) ISSUANCE.—Except as provided under
2 subsection (b), upon receiving a certification de3
scribed in section 7345 of the Internal Revenue
4 Code of 1986 from the Secretary of the Treasury,
5 the Secretary of State may not issue a passport or
6 passport card to any individual who has a seriously
7 delinquent tax debt described in such section.
8 ‘‘(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State
9 shall revoke a passport or passport card previously
10 issued to any individual described in subparagraph
11 (A).
12 ‘‘(b) EXCEPTIONS.—
13 ‘‘(1) EMERGENCY AND HUMANITARIAN SITUA14
TIONS.—Notwithstanding subsection (a), the Sec15
retary of State may issue a passport or passport
16 card, in emergency circumstances or for humani17
tarian reasons, to an individual described in sub18
section (a)(1).
19 ‘‘(2) LIMITATION FOR RETURN TO UNITED

5 2010 23STATES.—Notwithstanding subsection (a)(2), the
21 Secretary of State, before revocation, may—
22 ‘‘(A) limit a previously issued passport or
23 passport card only for return travel to the
24 United States; or:06 Mar 19, 20‘‘(B) issue a limited passport or passport
2 card that only permits return travel to the
3 United States.’’.
4 (e) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by
5 this section shall take effect on January 1, 2013.12 Jkt 099200 PO 00000 Frm 01450 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\SENENR\S1813.ES S1813 sroberts on DSK5SPTVN1PROD with BILLS.

The bad thing here is that this wording allows the IRS to decide what amount is can trigger the denial or revocation. Debtors prison is on the way back apparently. You owe a tax bill? You are forbidden to leave the country.

This government is way beyond out-of-control. This is nazi-esque