Department of the Treasury November 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Agency Information Collection Activities: Information Collection Revision; Submission for OMB Review; Regulation E-Electronic Fund Transfer Act and Regulation Z-Truth in Lending Act
Document Number: 2019-23960
Type: Notice
Date: 2019-11-04
Agency: Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of Treasury, Department of the Treasury
The OCC, 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 a continuing information collection as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and respondents are not required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. The OCC is soliciting comment concerning revisions to the information collections titled ``Regulation EElectronic Fund Transfer Act'' and ``Regulation ZTruth in Lending Act.'' The OCC also is giving notice that it has sent the collection to OMB for review.
Assessment of Fees on Certain Bank Holding Companies and Nonbank Financial Companies Supervised by the Federal Reserve Board To Cover the Expenses of the Financial Research Fund
Document Number: 2019-23906
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2019-11-04
Agency: Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (``Treasury'') is requesting comment on a proposed rule to implement section 401 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Economic Growth Act''), which amends section 155 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the ``Dodd-Frank Act''). As amended, section 155 requires the Secretary of the Treasury to establish, by regulation, an assessment schedule applicable to bank holding companies with total consolidated assets of $250 billion or greater and nonbank financial companies supervised by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``the Board''), to collect assessments equal to the total expenses of the Office of Financial Research (the ``OFR''). The Department is also proposing other amendments to the part to simplify the method for determining the amount of total assessable assets for foreign banking organizations, which have been made possible by the introduction of a new regulatory data source.
The Treatment of Certain Interests in Corporations as Stock or Indebtedness
Document Number: 2019-23819
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2019-11-04
Agency: Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury, Department of the Treasury
This document announces that the Department of the Treasury (Treasury Department) and the IRS intend to issue proposed regulations regarding the treatment of certain interests in corporations as stock or indebtedness and requests comments from the public regarding the contemplated rules. This document also announces that, following the expiration of the 2016 Temporary Regulations (described in the Background section of this advance notice of proposed rulemaking), a taxpayer may rely on the 2016 Proposed Regulations (also described in the Background) until further notice is given in the Federal Register, provided that the taxpayer consistently applies the rules in the 2016 Proposed Regulations in their entirety.
Removal of Section 385 Documentation Regulations
Document Number: 2019-23817
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-11-04
Agency: Internal Revenue Service, Department of Treasury, Department of the Treasury
This document removes final regulations setting forth minimum documentation requirements that ordinarily must be satisfied in order for certain related-party interests in a corporation to be treated as indebtedness for Federal tax purposes. This document also adopts conforming amendments to other final regulations to reflect the removal of the documentation regulations. The final regulations removed or amended by this document generally affect corporations that issue purported indebtedness to related corporations or partnerships.
Imposition of Fifth Special Measure Against the Islamic Republic of Iran as a Jurisdiction of Primary Money Laundering Concern
Document Number: 2019-23697
Type: Rule
Date: 2019-11-04
Agency: Department of the Treasury, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
FinCEN is issuing this final rule, pursuant to Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, to prohibit the opening or maintaining of correspondent accounts in the United States for, or on behalf of, Iranian financial institutions, and the use of foreign financial institutions' correspondent accounts at covered U.S. financial institutions to process transactions involving Iranian financial institutions.
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