How Does IRS Tax Debt Affect Your Passport and Your Ability to Travel or Live Overseas? So recently the government has a program and program states that if you have seriously delinquent tax debt and if you don't have a resolution in place or otherwise in compliance then the IRS can report you to the State Department and the State Department can essentially revoke your passport so what serious means as serious usually means liabilities $50,000 or more that have gone unresolved the biggest problem with this is number one nobody likes to be inconvenienced by having somebody revoke your passport so for anybody with a liability we strongly encourage you to get in compliance so that your passport is not addressed but the bigger problem is with people who live overseas so expats who live in various countries if their passport gets revoked then technically they can get deported and they can either be held indefinitely or for an extended period of time and/or pay huge fines and war other things so and it's suffer other consequences associated with not having a passport so for picking particularly for people who live overseas this is a huge problem so you want to make sure that you're in tax compliance you want to make sure that you're taking active steps to resolve your tax issues because if you don't there is the risk that you will get reported to the State Department and your passport will give your vote and then you won't be able to travel in in travel and/or overseas.