Department of Treasury December 29, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (``OFAC'') is publishing the names of seventeen newly-designated persons whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 12978 of October 21, 1995, ``Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers.'' In addition, OFAC is publishing changes to the identifying information associated with nine persons previously designated pursuant to Executive Order 12978.

This document contains final regulations amending Sec. 1.671- 5 which provides reporting rules for widely held fixed investment trusts (WHFITs). These final regulations clarify and simplify reporting for trustees and middlemen of non-mortgage widely held fixed investment trusts (NMWHFITs). These final regulations also provide temporary safe harbor reporting rules for widely held mortgage trusts (WHMTs) that are outside the WHMT safe harbor. The preamble to these regulations also provides that trustees of WHFITs are to indicate on the Form 1041, ``U.S. Income Tax Return for Estates and Trusts,'' filed for a WHFIT's 2006 calendar year that the return is a final return.