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24, 2018). Members of the public
desiring specific information concerning
an ongoing matching activity may
request a copy of the applicable
computer matching agreement at the
address provided above.
PARTICIPATING AGENCIES:
IRS.
AUTHORITY FOR CONDUCTING THE MATCHING
PROGRAM:
The Internal Revenue Service must
safeguard information to ensure that it
is kept confidential as required by the
Internal Revenue Code, the Privacy Act
of 1974, the Bank Secrecy Act, Title 18
of the United States Code, the Federal
Information Security Management Act
(FISMA), and other applicable laws that
require safeguarding of information.
Sending confidential information
without sufficient protection is a
violation of IRS security policy. This
matching program will assist the IRS in
ensuring that sensitive information is
properly protected from unauthorized
use or disclosure.
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this program is to
detect and deter breaches of security
policy by IRS employees, contractors, or
other individuals who have been
granted access to IRS information or to
IRS equipment and resources, who send
electronic communications in an
insecure, unencrypted manner.
CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS:
IRS employees, contractors, or other
individuals who have been granted
access to IRS information, equipment,
and resources.
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CATEGORIES OF RECORDS:
IRS will use any or all of the data
elements in the listed systems of records
to the extent necessary to accomplish a
computer match. Data elements include,
but not limited to, employee name,
Social Security Number (SSN),
employee number, address, email
addresses; employee spouse’s name,
SSN, address; taxpayer name, Taxpayer
Identification Number (TIN), address,
tax return/account information,
taxpayer entity information, including
prior and current name; electronic
transmission specifics, internet Protocol
(IP) Address, computer machine name,
terminal identification; general
personnel and payroll records, etc. The
information generated and/or obtained
during these computer matches will be
used by IRS employees in the
performance of their official
responsibilities. Access to this
information is limited to those
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individuals who have a need to know
the information in the performance of
their official duties. These individuals
are subject to criminal and civil
penalties for the unauthorized
inspection and/or disclosure of this
information. During the execution of
this program of computer matches and
the resultant analyses or investigations,
the records used may be duplicated by
IRS employees only for use in
performing their official duties. The
information collected or generated as
part of this program of computer
matches may only be disclosed in
accordance with the provisions of 5
U.S.C. 552a, 26 U.S.C. 6103, and any
other applicable Federal privacy
provisions.
SYSTEM(S) OF RECORDS:
The following systems of records
maintained by the IRS and the
Department of the Treasury Offices may
be utilized:
1. Correspondence Files and
Correspondence Control Files
[Treasury/IRS 00.001]
2. Correspondence Files: Inquiries
About Enforcement Activities
[Treasury/IRS 00.002]
3. Employee Complaint and
Allegation Referral Records [Treasury/
IRS 00.007]
4. Taxpayer Advocate Service and
Customer Feedback and Survey Records
[Treasury/IRS 00.003]
5. Third Party Contact Records
[Treasury/IRS 00.333]
6. Stakeholder Relationship
Management and Subject Files
[Treasury/IRS 10.004]
7. Volunteer Records [Treasury/IRS
10.555]
8. Annual Listing of Undelivered
Refund Checks [Treasury/IRS 22.003]
9. File of Erroneous Refunds
[Treasury/IRS 22.011]
10. Foreign Information System (FIS)
[Treasury/IRS 22.027]
11. Individual Microfilm Retention
Register [Treasury/IRS 22.032]
12. Subsidiary Accounting Files
[Treasury/IRS 22.054]
13. Automated Non-Master File
(ANMF) [Treasury/IRS 22.060]
14. Information Return Master File
(IRMF) [Treasury/IRS 22.061]
15. Electronic Filing Records
[Treasury/IRS 22.062]
16. CADE Individual Master File
(IMF) [Treasury/IRS 24.030]
17. CADE Business Master File (BMF)
[Treasury/IRS 24.046]
18. Audit Underreporter Case File
[Treasury/IRS 24.047]
19. Acquired Property Records
[Treasury/IRS 26.001]
20. Lien Files [Treasury/IRS 26.009]
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21. Offer in Compromise Files
[Treasury/IRS 26.012]
22. Trust Fund Recovery Cases/One
Hundred Percent Penalty Cases
[Treasury/IRS 26.013]
23. Record of Seizure and Sale of Real
Property [Treasury/IRS 26.014]
24. Taxpayer Delinquent Account
(TDA) Files [Treasury/IRS 26.019]
25. Taxpayer Delinquency
Investigation (TDI) Files [Treasury/IRS
26.020]
26. Identification Media Files System
for Employees and Others Issued IRS
Identification [Treasury/IRS 34.013]
27. Security Clearance Files
[Treasury/IRS 34.016]
28. Automated Background
Investigations System [Treasury/IRS
34.022]
29. Audit Trail and Security Records
[Treasury/IRS 34.037]
30. Treasury Payroll and Personnel
System [Treasury/DO.001]
31. Treasury Child Care Tuition
Assistance Records [Treasury/DO.003]
32. Public Transportation Incentive
Program Records [Treasury/DO.005]
33. Treasury Financial Management
Systems [Treasury/DO.009]
Ryan Law,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privacy,
Transparency, and Records.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Survey of U.S. Ownership of Foreign
Securities as of December 31, 2020
Departmental Offices, Office of
the Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs, Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of reporting
requirements.
AGENCY:
By this Notice, the
Department of the Treasury is informing
the public that it is conducting a
mandatory survey of ownership of
foreign securities by U.S. residents as of
December 31, 2020. This Notice
constitutes legal notification to all
United States persons (defined below)
who meet the reporting requirements set
forth in this Notice that they must
respond to, and comply with, this
survey. The reporting form SHCA (2020)
and instructions may be printed from
the internet at: https://
www.treasury.gov/resource-center/datachart-center/tic/Pages/forms-shc.aspx.
Please note that when the TIC website
is revised, the URL will be: https://
home.treasury.gov/data/treasuryinternational-capital-tic-system-homepage/tic-forms-instructions/forms-shc.
SUMMARY:
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Definition:
Pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 3102(3) and (4): A
person means any individual, branch,
partnership, associated group,
association, estate, trust, corporation, or
other organization (whether or not
organized under the laws of any State),
and any government (including a
foreign government, the United States
Government, a State or local
government, and any agency,
corporation, financial institution, or
other entity or instrumentality thereof,
including a government-sponsored
agency); and a United States person
means any person resident in the United
States or subject to the jurisdiction of
the United States.
Who Must Report: The reporting panel
is based upon the data submitted for the
2016 Benchmark survey and the June
2020 TIC report ‘‘Aggregate Holdings of
Long-Term Securities by U.S. and
Foreign Residents’’ (TIC SLT). Entities
required to report will be contacted
individually by the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York. Entities not
contacted by the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York have no reporting
responsibilities.
What To Report: This report will
collect information on holdings by U.S.
residents of foreign securities, including
equities, long-term debt securities, and
short-term debt securities (including
selected money market instruments).
How To Report: Copies of the survey
forms and instructions, which contain
complete information on reporting
procedures and definitions, may be
obtained at the website address given
above in the Summary. Completed
reports can be submitted electronically
via email at SHC.help@ny.frb.org.
Inquiries can be made to the survey staff
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York at (212) 720–6300 or email:
SHC.help@ny.frb.org. Inquiries can also
be made to Dwight Wolkow at (202)
622–1276, email: comments2TIC@
do.treas.gov.
When To Report: Data must be
submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, acting as fiscal agent for
the Department of the Treasury, by
March 5, 2021.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This
data collection has been approved by
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) in accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned
control number 1505–0146. An agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a valid control number
assigned by OMB. The estimated
average annual burden associated with
this collection of information is 49
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hours per respondent for end-investors
and custodians that file Schedule 3
reports covering their foreign securities
entrusted to U.S. resident custodians,
146 hours per respondent for large endinvestors filing Schedule 2 reports, and
546 hours per respondent for large
custodians of securities filing Schedule
2 reports. Comments concerning the
accuracy of this burden estimate and
suggestions for reducing this burden
should be directed to the Department of
the Treasury, Attention: Administrator,
International Portfolio Investment Data
Reporting Systems, Room 1050,
Washington, DC 20220, and to OMB,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Treasury, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Washington, DC 20503. In light of the
current pandemic, please also email
comments to Dwight Wolkow at:
comments2TIC@do.treas.gov.
Heidi Cohen,
Federal Register Liaison.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Cost of Living Adjustments for
Service-Connected Benefits
Department of Veterans Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
As required by the Veterans’
Compensation Cost-of-Living
Adjustment Act of 2020, the Department
of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hereby giving
notice of adjustments in certain benefit
rates. These adjustments affect the
compensation program.
DATES: These adjustments became
effective on December 1, 2020, the date
provided by Public Law 116–178.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jessica Pierce, Policy and Procedures
Staff, Compensation Service, Veterans
Benefits Administration, Department of
Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue
NW, Washington, DC 20420, 202–461–
9700. (This is not a toll-free telephone
number.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 2
of Public Law 116–178 provides for an
increase in each of the rates in sections
1114, 1115(1), and 1162 of title 38,
United States Code. VA is required to
increase these benefit rates by the same
percentage as increases in the benefit
amounts payable under title II of the
Social Security Act. The increased rates
are required to be published in the
Federal Register.
SUMMARY:
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The Social Security Administration
has announced that there will be a 1.3
percent cost-of-living increase in Social
Security benefits for 2021. Therefore,
applying the same percentage, the
following rates for VA’s compensation
program became effective on December
1, 2020:
Disability evaluation percent
Monthly rate
Disability Compensation
[38 U.S.C. 1114]
10 ...........................................
20 ...........................................
30 ...........................................
40 ...........................................
50 ...........................................
60 ...........................................
70 ...........................................
80 ...........................................
90 ...........................................
100 .........................................
(38 U.S.C. 1114(k) through
(t)):
38 U.S.C. 1114(k) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(l) ...............
38 U.S.C. 1114(m) .............
38 U.S.C. 1114(n) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(o) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(p) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(r) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(s) ..............
38 U.S.C. 1114(t) ...............
$144.14.
284.93.
441.35.
635.77.
905.04.
1,146.39.
1,444.71.
1,679.35.
1,887.18.
3,146.42.
111.74.
3,915.14.
4,320.76.
4,915.17.
5,493.95.
5,493.95.
2,356.48; 3,510.69.
3,521.85.
3,510.69.
Additional Compensation for Dependents
[38 U.S.C. 1115(1)]
38 U.S.C. 1115(1):
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(A)
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(B)
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(C)
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(D)
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(E)
38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(F)
.........
.........
.........
.........
.........
.........
175.43.
303.90; 87.17.
117.32; 87.17.
140.79.
336.32.
281.57.
Clothing Allowance
[38 U.S.C. 1162]
$841.36 per year.
Signing Authority
The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or
designee, approved this document and
authorized the undersigned to sign and
submit the document to the Office of the
Federal Register for publication
electronically as an official document of
the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Brooks D. Tucker, Assistant Secretary
for Congressional and Legislative
Affairs, Performing the Delegable Duties
of the Chief of Staff, Department of
Veterans Affairs, approved this
document on December 3, 2020, for
publication.
Luvenia Potts,
Regulation Development Coordinator, Office
of Regulation Policy & Management, Office
of the Secretary, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2020–27092 Filed 12–9–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Survey of U.S. Ownership of Foreign Securities as of December 31,
2020
AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Office of the Assistant Secretary for
International Affairs, Department of the Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of reporting requirements.
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SUMMARY: By this Notice, the Department of the Treasury is informing
the public that it is conducting a mandatory survey of ownership of
foreign securities by U.S. residents as of December 31, 2020. This
Notice constitutes legal notification to all United States persons
(defined below) who meet the reporting requirements set forth in this
Notice that they must respond to, and comply with, this survey. The
reporting form SHCA (2020) and instructions may be printed from the
internet at: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/tic/Pages/forms-shc.aspx.
Please note that when the TIC website is revised, the URL will be:
https://home.treasury.gov/data/treasury-international-capital-tic-system-home-page/tic-forms-instructions/forms-shc.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Definition: Pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 3102(3)
and (4): A person means any individual, branch, partnership, associated
group, association, estate, trust, corporation, or other organization
(whether or not organized under the laws of any State), and any
government (including a foreign government, the United States
Government, a State or local government, and any agency, corporation,
financial institution, or other entity or instrumentality thereof,
including a government-sponsored agency); and a United States person
means any person resident in the United States or subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States.
Who Must Report: The reporting panel is based upon the data
submitted for the 2016 Benchmark survey and the June 2020 TIC report
``Aggregate Holdings of Long-Term Securities by U.S. and Foreign
Residents'' (TIC SLT). Entities required to report will be contacted
individually by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Entities not
contacted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York have no reporting
responsibilities.
What To Report: This report will collect information on holdings by
U.S. residents of foreign securities, including equities, long-term
debt securities, and short-term debt securities (including selected
money market instruments).
How To Report: Copies of the survey forms and instructions, which
contain complete information on reporting procedures and definitions,
may be obtained at the website address given above in the Summary.
Completed reports can be submitted electronically via email at
[email protected]. Inquiries can be made to the survey staff of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York at (212) 720-6300 or email:
[email protected]. Inquiries can also be made to Dwight Wolkow at
(202) 622-1276, email: [email protected].
When To Report: Data must be submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, acting as fiscal agent for the Department of the Treasury,
by March 5, 2021.
Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This data collection has been
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned control number 1505-0146.
An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a valid
control number assigned by OMB. The estimated average annual burden
associated with this collection of information is 49 hours per
respondent for end-investors and custodians that file Schedule 3
reports covering their foreign securities entrusted to U.S. resident
custodians, 146 hours per respondent for large end-investors filing
Schedule 2 reports, and 546 hours per respondent for large custodians
of securities filing Schedule 2 reports. Comments concerning the
accuracy of this burden estimate and suggestions for reducing this
burden should be directed to the Department of the Treasury, Attention:
Administrator, International Portfolio Investment Data Reporting
Systems, Room 1050, Washington, DC 20220, and to OMB, Attention: Desk
Officer for the Department of the Treasury, Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC 20503. In light of the current
pandemic, please also email comments to Dwight Wolkow at:
[email protected].
Heidi Cohen,
Federal Register Liaison.
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