Internal Revenue Service December 13, 2019 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The Internal Revenue Service, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Currently, the IRS is soliciting comments concerning the burden related to requirements that escrow accounts, settlement funds, and similar funds be subject to current taxation either as grantor trusts or otherwise.

This document contains corrections to Treasury Decision 9879, which was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, October 31, 2019. Treasury Decision 9879 contained final regulations providing guidance on new information reporting obligations under section 6050Y related to reportable policy sales of life insurance contracts and payments of reportable death benefits and guidance on the amount of death benefits excluded from gross income under section 101 following a reportable policy sale.