Nichols’ Tax Update: Issue 21-28
Christian Group That Battled IRS Receives Exemption After All, and much more!
Federal agencies, including Treasury, have issued temporary regulations that implement provisions of the No Surprises Act that protect participants, beneficiaries, and enrollees in group health plans and group and individual health insurance coverage from surprise medical bills when they receive specified services in some circumstances. . . . . . . . 295 pages ! ! ! !
[T.D. 9951; 7/6/2021]
IRS Proposing Regs to Protect Consumers From Surprise Billing
The IRS has issued proposed regulations to protect consumers from surprise medical bills for emergency services, air ambulance services furnished by nonparticipating providers, and non-emergency services furnished by nonparticipating providers at participating facilities, in some circumstances.
[REG-107706-21; 7/6/2021]
The IRS has released (IR-2021-145) a list of frequently asked questions on the treatment of grants Treasury provides to some transportation companies, advising that the grants are taxable and that the expenses for which the grants are used are deductible to the extent that they are otherwise deductible under the tax law.
[ IR-2021-145; 7/6/2021]
The heavy emphasis on conventional backdating and individual income omission in the first criminal indictment involving conservation easements struck practitioners as a clear sign of the government’s strategy for asserting tax fraud in the area.
[Tax Notes Today; 7/8/2021, article by Nathan Richman]
The IRS has reversed course and granted tax exemption to a civic-minded Christian organization that it had proposed denying exemption to for engaging in partisan politics.
[Tax Notes Today, 7/8/2021, article by Fred Stokeld]
The IRS provided information on whether the trustee of an individual retirement arrangement must report a qualified charitable distribution on Form 1099-R, “Distributions From Pensions, Annuities, Retirement or Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Insurance Contracts, etc.”
[INFO 2021-0007; 7/8/2021]
The IRS has issued a practice unit that provides guidance on a revised directive from the IRS Large Business & International Division on the allowance of the research tax credit for taxpayers that expense research and development costs on their Adjusted Accounting Standards Codification 730 Financial Statement R&D.
[COR-P-032; 7/8/2021] 55 pages
IRS Issues Practice Unit on FDII Deduction
The IRS has issued a practice unit on the foreign-derived intangible income deduction under section 250, addressing how to determine deduction eligible income, deemed intangible income, foreign-derived deduction eligible income, and the FDII deduction.
[ INT-C-238; 7/9/2021]
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