This past year, the US Congress passed a law that calls for the revocation and non renewal of a US passport if you are in arrears on your Federal income taxes. Does anyone know if the State Department has begun to implement this on passport renewals?

Moved to the home country forum.

I remember this article, and there was a long thread on it. You can do a forum search , but if I remember correctly it was only for those who owe 50k or more.

I remember reading about this coming for years now even back in 2012

Also I believe they can refuse renewal if applicant has not paid their child support

I believe it started in January 2016, but you have to owe over $50k for renewal to be withheld. For child support you have to be in federal database which requires having been subject to a state court order for unpaid child support.

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better get on this haven't file in 15 years..

I'm a little aghast that anyone in their right mind doesn't/hasn't filed with the feds. We all know that you need a passport, and even before all this we all knew that not filing a 1040 was an 'issue'.

I'm not in anyway defending the IRS (a pseudo criminal extortion racket IMHO), but come on, this shouldn't be a shock to anyone.