04.05.12
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A bill authored by a Southland lawmaker that could potentially allow the federal government to prevent any Americans who owe back taxes from traveling outside the U.S. is one step closer to becoming law.
Senate Bill 1813 was introduced back in November by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Los Angeles) to “reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes.”
After clearing the Senate on a 74 – 22 vote on March 14, SB 1813 is now headed for a vote in the House of Representatives, where it’s expected to encounter stiffer opposition among the GOP majority.
In addition to authorizing appropriations for federal transportation and infrastructure programs, the “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” or “MAP-21″ includes a provision that would allow for the “revocation or denial” of a passport for anyone with “certain unpaid taxes” or “tax delinquencies”.
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02.02.12
Associated Press | U.S. citizenship is
priceless to some, worthless to others. But now the State Department has
a dollar figure: U.S. citizenship is worth $450. (...)
It's also getting more
expensive if you want to keep your U.S. citizenship and need a passport
to prove it. The application fee for a passport is jumping by 27
percent, from $55 to $70 with a 100 percent increase, from $20 to $40,
in the passport security surcharge.
In
addition to the increase in the application fee, the department will now
charge $82 - up from nothing - to add new pages to a U.S. passport. It
says the fee is needed to offset the cost of the pages, the time spent
affixing the pages into the passport book, endorsing the passport and
performing a quality-control check.
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06.01.09
Slipping over the border to Baja for the weekend, roadtripping to Quebec, or sailing to Bermuda for some pink sand-and-rum swizzle therapy won't be as easy as it used to be: Starting June 1, 2009, U.S. citizens seeking re-entry to the United States by land or sea from Canada, Mexico, Bermuda, and the Caribbean (excluding Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands) will be required to show valid passports, or “Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative”-approved documents.
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