IRS Bulletin 2024-50 includes vital updates on administrative, employee plan, exempt organization, and income tax rules. Learn about § 403(b) deadlines, partnership tax updates, and more.
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ADMINISTRATIVE
T.D. 10013, page 1220.
This document contains amendments to the regulations relating to the disclosure of specified return information to the Census Bureau. The amendments would ensure the efficient and appropriate disclosure of return information to the Census Bureau and would permit the disclosure of additional return information pursuant to a request from the Secretary of Commerce.
EMPLOYEE PLANS
Announcement 2024-38, page 1230.
This announcement notifies the public that the IRS intends to issue opinion letters on November 29, 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter, for § 403(b) pre-approved plans that were updated for changes with respect to the requirements of § 403(b), including the 2022 Cumulative List, and that were filed during the second remedial amendment cycle for § 403(b) pre-approved plans. This announcement also notifies the public of the date by which an adopting employer intending to maintain a § 403(b) pre-approved plan for the second cycle must adopt that plan and announces the begin-ning and ending dates of the period during which an adopting employer may file for an individual determination letter under the second remedial amendment cycle. This announcement also discusses a procedural restatement rule that applies to all pre-approved plans and provides a reminder for adopting employers of by § 403(b)(9).
EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS
Announcement 2024-39, page 1231.
Revocation of IRC 501(c)(3) Organizations for failure to meet the code section requirements. Contributions made to the organizations by individual donors are no longer deductible under IRC 170(b)(1)(A).
INCOME TAX
Notice 2024-84, page 1229.
This notice extends the transition process for claiming a statutory exception to the elective payment phaseouts contained in section 5 of Notice 2024-9, 2024-2 I.R.B. 358. Thus, if an Applicable Entity provides an attestation described in section 5.02 of Notice 2024-9 with respect to an Applicable Credit Property the construction of which begins before the later of January 1, 2027, or the issuance of further guidance, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service will treat the attestation as establishing that a Domestic Con-tent Exception is met with respect to such Applicable Credit Property.
REG-116017-24, page 1232.
These proposed regulations would provide certain administrative requirements for unincorporated organizations taking advantage of modifications to the rules governing elections to be excluded from the application of partnership tax rules. They would also require all organizations to submit additional information before making such an election. These proposed regulations would affect unincorporated organizations and their members, potentially including tax-exempt organizations, the District of Columbia, State and local governments, Indian Tribal governments, Alaska Native Corporations, the Tennessee Valley Authority, rural electric cooperatives, and certain agencies and instrumentalities. The proposed regulations would also update the procedure for obtaining permission to revoke a section 761(a) election.
T.D. 10012, page 1207.
These final regulations would modify existing requirements regarding elections by certain unincorporated organizations to be excluded from the application of otherwise applicable partnership tax rules. These modifications would apply to certain unincorporated organizations owned, in whole or in part, by one or more “applicable entities,” including tax-exempt organizations, the District of Columbia, State and local governments, Indian Tribal governments, Alaska Native Corporations, the Tennessee Valley Authority, rural electric cooperatives, and certain agencies and instrumentalities. After making an election under the modified rules, such owners would be permitted to make elective payment elections under section 6417(a) of the Code with respect to certain property held by the unincorporated organization.