{"id":2269,"date":"2018-07-08T03:58:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T08:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2018-07-08T04:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T09:02:31","slug":"thousands-of-americans-stand-to-be-denied-passports-due-to-unpaid-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/thousands-of-americans-stand-to-be-denied-passports-due-to-unpaid-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Americans stand to be denied passports due to unpaid taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/finance\/395869-hundreds-of-thousands-stand-to-be-denied-passports-due-to-unpaid-taxes\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2272\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IRS2018-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IRS2018-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IRS2018.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BY JOHN BOWDEN &#8211; <span class=\"submitted-date\">07\/06\/18 04:11 PM EDT<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of Americans stand to\u00a0be denied new or renewed passports under a 2015 law requiring the IRS and State Department to deny passports to Americans with more than $51,000 in overdue tax debt.<\/p>\n<p>An IRS spokesman told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/thousands-of-americans-will-be-denied-a-passport-because-of-unpaid-taxes-1530869401?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that as many as 362,000 Americans fall under the category of those with outstanding debt for whom the State Department should deny passport applications or renewals.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY JOHN BOWDEN &#8211; 07\/06\/18 04:11 PM EDT Hundreds of thousands of Americans stand to\u00a0be denied new or renewed passports under a 2015 law requiring the IRS and State Department to deny passports to Americans with more than $51,000 in overdue tax debt. An IRS spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that as many as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/thousands-of-americans-stand-to-be-denied-passports-due-to-unpaid-taxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thousands of Americans stand to be denied passports due to unpaid taxes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2276,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}