{"id":4408,"date":"2016-11-09T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.40.31.108\/?p=4408"},"modified":"2016-11-09T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T13:40:27","slug":"if-you-dont-pay-your-us-taxes-you-can-lose-your-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/if-you-dont-pay-your-us-taxes-you-can-lose-your-passport\/","title":{"rendered":"If you don&#8217;t pay your US Taxes you can lose your passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been contact by a lot of ordinary <strong>Americans living in Spain<\/strong>, telling us that they have <strong>not filed US taxes with the IRS<\/strong> (Internal Revenue Service) since they arrived here. They work in Spain, save their money in the bank and they pay taxes in Spain just as any other resident.<\/p>\n<p>Some have heard from other Americans that they might have problems in the future, but they don\u2019t know what to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>This year American Congress have implemented a law giving the U.S. government the <strong>power to revoke passports of those who don\u2019t pay their taxes<\/strong>. The law also allows the government, through the U.S. State Department, to prevent tax delinquents from getting a new passport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rule will be applied to Americans with \u201cseriously delinquent\u201d tax debt, <\/strong>people who owe $50,000 or more in unpaid taxes, including penalties and interest.<\/p>\n<p>Americans traveling for humanitarian reasons will be able to ask for an exception if they\u2019re tax delinquent, and the rule does not apply to people who are on an IRS payment plan or contesting a tax case in court.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed regulation has angered some groups, particularly citizens living abroad, who may not receive the IRS\u2019s mail, since the system isn\u2019t set up to deal with expats very well.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know,<strong> Americans abroad<\/strong> need their\u00a0passports\u00a0for many routine activities of daily life, such as banking, registering in a hotel, or registering a child for school.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, <strong>there are 3 ways to\u00a0 to clean up a tax mess<\/strong>, it is important to remember that the <strong>Voluntary Disclosure Program<\/strong> is not the only way for an ordinary American abroad to <strong>rectify problems with the IRS<\/strong>. In fact, it is quite often the wrong way to do it.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone has different tax situations and everyone needs <strong>personalized advice. If you want our professional advice<\/strong>, please contact us at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:info@ustaxconsultants.es\">info@ustaxconsultants.es<\/a> Tel: +34 915194392<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been contact by a lot of ordinary Americans living in Spain, telling us that they have not filed US taxes with the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) since they arrived here. They work in Spain, save their money in the bank and they pay taxes in Spain just as any other resident. Some have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatca","category-irs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustaxconsultants.es\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}