The IRS Collection Process
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p594.pdf
If you don't pay on the time, the IRS can take several measures
1. Notice of Federal Tax Lien - A public notice to creditors. It notifies them that there is a federal tax lien that attaches to all your current and future property and rights to property.
2. Federal Tax Lien - A lien is a legal claim against all your current and future property. When you don’t pay your first bill for taxes due, a lien is created by law and attaches to your property. It applies to property (such as your home and car) and to any current and future rights you have to property.
3. Notice of Intent to Levy: Generally, before property is seized, we have to send you this notice. If you don’t pay your overdue taxes, make other arrangements to satisfy the tax debt, or request a hearing within 30 days of the date of this notice, we may seize your property.
4. Levy: A legal seizure of property or rights to property to satisfy a tax debt. When property is seized (“levied”), it will be sold to help pay your tax debt. If wages or bank accounts are seized, the money will be applied to your tax debt.
5. Passport Actions: The Department of State will not issue or renew a passport to any individual who has been certified by the IRS as having a seriously delinquent tax debt, and may revoke a passport previously issued to such individual.
Know your rights, Notice of Federal Tax Liens and Proposed Levy or seizure can be appealed.
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