Employees who participate in a Sec. 401(k) or similar retirement plan and whose prior-year Social Security wages were over $145,000 have been given a two-year reprieve from the new requirement that any catch-up contributions they make to the plan must be designated as after-tax Roth IRA contributions.
Long-awaited proposed regulations, part of a broader effort by Treasury to close the tax gap and address tax evasion risks posed by digital assets, require brokers to report sales and exchanges of digital assets by customers.
Wait times increased about the same time as the IRS ended program that thwarted line-jumping services, say tax practitioners, who also questioned the training of new hires.
In a notice issued Friday, the IRS provided guidance to persons filing certain returns on how to seek religious exemptions, hardship waivers, and other administrative exemptions provided by the IRS, from electronic filing requirements.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said the IRS is uncertain of the location of microfilm cartridges with tax information of both individuals and businesses.
New proposed regulations would update the regulations to reflect 50-plus years of statutory changes, remove regulations and certain transition rules that no longer have practical application, and eliminate obsolete or incorrect terms and cross-references.
The IRS provides requirements for home energy audits for taxpayers that want to claim the energy efficient home improvement credit, which taxpayers can rely on until proposed regulations are issued.
The IRS disagrees with court decisions requiring notice-and-comment rulemaking to identify listed transactions, but said it is identifying monetized installment sales transactions as listed transactions in proposed regulations “to avoid confusion and ensure consistent enforcement of the tax laws throughout the nation to prevent disruption of the IRS’s ongoing efforts to identify and examine abusive tax shelters.”
Treasury and the IRS announced Wednesday that by filing season 2024, taxpayers will be able to go paperless if they choose to do so. And by filing season 2025, the IRS will digitize all paper-filed returns when they are received.
The IRS ruled Monday that cash-method taxpayers who stake cryptocurrency native to a proof-of-stake blockchain and receive cryptocurrency validation rewards must include the fair market value of the rewards in gross income in the year they are received.