Mandatory Survey of Foreign-Residents' Holdings of U.S. Securities, 31305-31306 [2023-10350]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 94 / Tuesday, May 16, 2023 / Notices Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. Estimated Number of Respondents: 100. Estimated Time per Response: 30 minutes. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 50 hours. The following paragraph applies to all the collections of information covered by this notice. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless the collection of information displays a valid OMB control number. Books or records relating to a collection of information must be retained if their contents may become material in the administration of any internal revenue law. Generally, tax returns and tax return information are confidential, as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public record. Comments are invited on: (a) whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Approved: May 11, 2023. Kerry L. Dennis, Tax Analyst. [FR Doc. 2023–10391 Filed 5–15–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4830–01–P DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Internal Revenue Service Proposed Collection; Comment Request Regarding Statement of Payments Received Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. AGENCY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:33 May 15, 2023 Jkt 259001 The Internal Revenue Service, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting comments concerning statement of payments received. SUMMARY: Written comments should be received on or before July 17, 2023 to be assured of consideration. ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Andres Garcia, Internal Revenue Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or by email to pra.comments@irs.gov. Include OMB control number 1545– 0364 or Statement of Payments Received in the subject line. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Requests for additional information or copies of the form should be directed to Kerry Dennis at (202) 317–5751, or at Internal Revenue Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or through the internet, at Kerry.L.Dennis@irs.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Statement of Payments Received. OMB Number: 1545–0364. Form Number: 4669. Abstract: Form 4669 is used by payors in specific situations to request relief from payment of certain required taxes. A payor who fails to withhold certain required taxes from a payee may be entitled to relief, under sections 3402(d), 3102(f)(3), 1463 or Regulations section 1.1474–4. To apply for relief, a payor must show that the payee reported the payments and paid the corresponding tax. To secure relief as described above, a payor must obtain a separate, completed Form 4669 from each payee for each year relief is requested. Current Actions: There are no changes to burden. Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection. Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. Estimated Number of Respondents: 85,000. Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes. Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 21,250 hours. The following paragraph applies to all the collections of information covered by this notice. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00088 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 31305 unless the collection of information displays a valid OMB control number. Books or records relating to a collection of information must be retained if their contents may become material in the administration of any internal revenue law. Generally, tax returns and tax return information are confidential, as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will become a matter of public record. Comments are invited on: (a) whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the burden of the collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information. Approved: May 11, 2023. Kerry L. Dennis, Tax Analyst. [FR Doc. 2023–10390 Filed 5–15–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4830–01–P DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Mandatory Survey of ForeignResidents’ Holdings of U.S. Securities Departmental Offices, 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 foreign-residents’ holdings of U.S. securities, including selected money market instruments, as of June 30, 2023. This mandatory survey is conducted under the authority of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act. 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. Additional copies of the reporting forms SHLA (2023) and instructions may be printed from the internet at: https:// home.treasury.gov/data/treasury- SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\16MYN1.SGM 16MYN1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 31306 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 94 / Tuesday, May 16, 2023 / Notices international-capital-tic-system-homepage/tic-forms-instructions/forms-shl. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Definition: A U.S. person is 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), who resides in the United States or is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Who Must Report: This mandatory survey is conducted under the authority of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey Act (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) and in accordance with 31 CFR 129. The panel for this survey is based primarily on the level of foreign resident holdings of U.S. securities reported on the June 2019 benchmark survey of foreign resident holdings of U.S. securities, and on the Aggregate Holdings of Long-Term Securities by U.S. and Foreign Residents (TIC SLT) report as of December 2022, and will consist mostly of the largest reporters. 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 foreign resident holdings of U.S. securities, including equities, short-term debt securities (including selected money market instruments), and long-term debt securities. 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, or by contacting the survey staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at (212) 720–6300 or (646) 720–6300, email: SHLA.help@ ny.frb.org. The mailing address is: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Data and Statistics Function, 6th Floor, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045– 0001. Inquiries can also be made to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, at (202) 452–3476, or to Dwight Wolkow, at (202) 923–0518, or by email: comments2TIC@treasury.gov When to Report: Data should be submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, acting as fiscal agent for the Department of the Treasury, by August 31, 2023. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:33 May 15, 2023 Jkt 259001 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 1505–0123. 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 486 hours per report for the largest custodians of securities, and 110 hours per report for the largest issuers of securities that have data to report and are not custodians. Comments concerning the accuracy of this burden estimate and suggestions for reducing this burden should be directed to the Department of the Treasury, Office of International Affairs, 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. Dwight D. Wolkow, Administrator, International Portfolio Investment Data Reporting Systems. [FR Doc. 2023–10350 Filed 5–15–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4810–AK–P DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS Notice of Request for Information on the Department of Veterans Affairs; Cytotechnologists Standard of Practice Department of Veterans Affairs. Request for information. AGENCY: ACTION: Cytotechnologists, also referred to as Cytologists, are certified laboratory professionals performing highly complex laboratory diagnostic testing on human specimens for diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of disease in the specialty of cytopathology. VA is requesting information to assist in developing a national standard of practice for VA Cytotechnologists. VA seeks comments on various topics to help inform VA’s development of this national standard of practice. DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 17, 2023. ADDRESSES: Comments must be submitted through www.regulations.gov. Except as provided below, comments received before the close of the SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 comment period will be available at www.regulations.gov for public viewing, inspection, or copying, including any personally identifiable or confidential business information that is included in a comment. We post the comments received before the close of the comment period on the following website as soon as possible after they have been received: https:// www.regulations.gov. VA will not post on Regulations.gov public comments that make threats to individuals or institutions or suggest that the commenter will take actions to harm the individual. VA encourages individuals not to submit duplicative comments. We will post acceptable comments from multiple unique commenters even if the content is identical or nearly identical to other comments. Any public comment received after the comment period’s closing date is considered late and will not be considered in a potential rulemaking. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ethan Kalett, Office of Regulations, Appeals and Policy (10BRAP), Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20420, at 202– 461–0500. This is not a toll-free number. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Authority Chapters 73 and 74 of 38 U.S.C. and 38 U.S.C. 303 authorize the Secretary to regulate the professional activities of VA health care professions to make certain that VA’s health care system provides safe and effective health care by qualified health care professionals to ensure the well-being of those Veterans who have borne the battle. On November 12, 2020, VA published an interim final rule confirming that VA health care professionals may practice their health care profession consistent with the scope and requirements of their VA employment, notwithstanding any State license, registration, certification, or other requirements that unduly interfere with their practice. 38 CFR 17.419; 85 FR 71838. Specifically, this rulemaking confirmed VA’s current practice of allowing VA health care professionals to deliver health care services in a State other than the health care professional’s State of licensure, registration, certification, or other State requirement, thereby enhancing beneficiaries’ access to critical VA health care services. The rulemaking also confirmed VA’s authority to establish national standards of practice for its health care professionals that would standardize a health care E:\FR\FM\16MYN1.SGM 16MYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 16, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31305-31306]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-10350]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY


Mandatory Survey of Foreign-Residents' Holdings of U.S. 
Securities

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, 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 foreign-residents' 
holdings of U.S. securities, including selected money market 
instruments, as of June 30, 2023. This mandatory survey is conducted 
under the authority of the International Investment and Trade in 
Services Survey Act. 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. Additional copies of the reporting forms SHLA 
(2023) and instructions may be printed from the internet at: https://
home.treasury.gov/data/treasury-

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international-capital-tic-system-home-page/tic-forms-instructions/
forms-shl.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Definition: A U.S. person is 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), who resides in the United 
States or is subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
    Who Must Report: This mandatory survey is conducted under the 
authority of the International Investment and Trade in Services Survey 
Act (22 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) and in accordance with 31 CFR 129. The 
panel for this survey is based primarily on the level of foreign 
resident holdings of U.S. securities reported on the June 2019 
benchmark survey of foreign resident holdings of U.S. securities, and 
on the Aggregate Holdings of Long-Term Securities by U.S. and Foreign 
Residents (TIC SLT) report as of December 2022, and will consist mostly 
of the largest reporters. 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 foreign 
resident holdings of U.S. securities, including equities, short-term 
debt securities (including selected money market instruments), and 
long-term debt securities.
    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, or 
by contacting the survey staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York 
at (212) 720-6300 or (646) 720-6300, email: [email protected]. The 
mailing address is: Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Data and 
Statistics Function, 6th Floor, 33 Liberty Street, New York, NY 10045-
0001. Inquiries can also be made to the Federal Reserve Board of 
Governors, at (202) 452-3476, or to Dwight Wolkow, at (202) 923-0518, 
or by email: [email protected]
    When to Report: Data should be submitted to the Federal Reserve 
Bank of New York, acting as fiscal agent for the Department of the 
Treasury, by August 31, 2023.
    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 1505-0123. 
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 486 hours per report 
for the largest custodians of securities, and 110 hours per report for 
the largest issuers of securities that have data to report and are not 
custodians. Comments concerning the accuracy of this burden estimate 
and suggestions for reducing this burden should be directed to the 
Department of the Treasury, Office of International Affairs, 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.

Dwight D. Wolkow,
Administrator, International Portfolio Investment Data Reporting 
Systems.
[FR Doc. 2023-10350 Filed 5-15-23; 8:45 am]
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