In January of 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a press release advising delinquent taxpayers to negotiate reasonable alternatives to enforced collection action, or risk losing their passport. Please find more on that press release and the IRS’s initial approach to passport revocation here. Suffice to say, the initial process for passport revocation was [...]
The recent Sixth Circuit decision in Bibler v. U.S., 2018 WL 1911249, may mark an evolution of the definition of “willfulness” in trust fund recovery penalty cases. For the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to prevail in its assessment of the trust fund recovery penalty pursuant to Internal Revenue Code (I.R.C.) § 6672, the liable taxpayer [...]