Highlights of Internal Revenue Bulletin 2024-44 – 10/28/2024

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In this release, learn about IRS Bulletin 2024-44, including updates on HDHP preventive care benefits, tax rules for Tribal entities, 501(c)(3) revocations, and more.

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ADMINISTRATIVE

Rev. Proc. 2024-33, page 1030.

General Rules and Specifications for Substitute Forms and Schedules

This procedure provides guidelines and general require-ments for the development, printing, and approval of the 2024 substitute tax forms. This procedure will be repro-duced as the next revision of Publication 1167. Rev. Proc. 2023-28 is superseded.

ADMINISTRATIVE, EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS, INCOME TAX

REG-113628-21, page 1074.

This document contains proposed regulations regarding the Federal tax classification of entities wholly owned by Indian Tribal governments (Tribes). The proposed regulations would provide that entities that are wholly owned by Tribes and organized or incorporated exclusively under the laws of the Tribes that own them generally are not recognized as separate entities for Federal tax purposes. The proposed regulations would also provide that, for purposes of making certain elec-tive payment elections (including determining eligibility for and the consequences of such elections) for certain energy credits under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, these entities and certain Tribal corporations chartered by the Department of the Interior (DOI) are treated as an instrumentality of one or more Indian Tribal governments or subdivisions thereof. This docu-ment also requests comments and provides notice of a public hearing on the proposed regulations that will be in addition to Tribal consultation on the proposed regulations.

EMPLOYEE PLANS

Notice 2024-75, page 1026.

This notice expands the list of preventive care benefits permitted to be provided by a high deductible health plan (HDHP) under section 223(c)(2)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code without a deductible, or with a deductible below the applicable minimum deductible for the HDHP, to include over-the-counter oral contraceptives (including emergency contraceptives) and male condoms. This notice also clari-fies that (1) all types of breast cancer screening for individ-uals who have not been diagnosed with breast cancer are treated as preventive care under section 223(c)(2)(C), (2) continuous glucose monitors for individuals diagnosed with diabetes are generally treated as preventive care under sec-tion 223(c)(2)(C), and (3) the new safe harbor for absence of a deductible for certain insulin products in section 223(c)(2)(G) applies without regard to whether the insulin product is prescribed to treat an individual diagnosed with diabetes or prescribed for the purpose of preventing the exacerbation of diabetes or the development of a secondary condition.

EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS

Announcement 2024-36, page 1073.

Revocation of IRC 501(c)(3) Organizations for failure to meet the code section requirements. Contributions made to the organizations by individual donors are nolonger deduct-ible under IRC 170(b)(1)(A).

INCOME TAX

Notice 2024-71, page 1026.

This notice provides a safe harbor under section 213 of the Internal Revenue Code for amounts paid for condoms.

T.D. 9994, page 1014.

This document contains final regulations that terminate the continued application of certain tax provisions arising from a previous transfer of intangible property to a foreign corporation when the intangible property is repatriated to certain United States persons. The final regulations affect certain United States persons that previously transferred intangible property to a foreign corporation.