When my son was two, his grandmother gave him a stuffed owl. Not a particularly creative toddler, he named the little owl Stuffy, and the name has stuck to this day.  What does this have to do with the question "Can the IRS Take My Passport?"  Patience...all will be revealed. He took the owl everywhere, which naturally led to many a calamity when Stuffy was inevitably misplaced. For my wife and I, Stuffy also had an unintended consequence—leverage. The boy-child needed Stuffy to go to sleep. So, when he was being unabashedly insolent, the threat of taking the owl usually remedied the situation. When the threats failed, and the tantrum moved the needle from angry little person to questionably-possessed imp, the actually seizure the owl was our only means of recourse. So, what the hell does this have to do with tax? Taxpayers are Basically Toddlers I have been a tax…