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IRB 2006-22

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(Dated May 30, 2006)
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Highlights of This Issue

These synopses are intended only as aids to the reader in identifying the subject matter covered. They may not be relied upon as authoritative interpretations.

INCOME TAX

LIFO; price indexes; department stores. The March 2006 Bureau of Labor Statistics price indexes are accepted for use by department stores employing the retail inventory and last-in, first-out inventory methods for valuing inventories for tax years ended on, or with reference to, March 31, 2006.

This procedure informs the trustee (or debtor in possession) representing the bankruptcy estate of the debtor of the procedure to be followed in obtaining a prompt determination by the Service of any unpaid tax liability of the estate incurred during the administration of the case. Rev. Proc. 81-17 obsoleted.

EMPLOYEE PLANS

Weighted average interest rate update; 30-year Treasury securities. The weighted average interest rate for May 2006 and the resulting permissible range of interest rates used to calculate current liability and to determine the required contribution are set forth.

Administrative programs; correction programs. This procedure updates and expands upon the Service’s comprehensive Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) of correction programs for retirement plans within the jurisdiction of the Commissioner, Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division. Rev. Proc. 2003-44 modified and superseded.

ESTATE TAX

IRA, marital deduction. This ruling clarifies circumstances under which the surviving spouse is considered to have a qualifying income interest for life in an IRA where a marital trust is designated as the IRA beneficiary for purposes of electing to have the IRA treated as qualifying terminable interest property under section 2056(b)(7) of the Code. Rev. Rul. 2000-2 modified and superseded.

EMPLOYMENT TAX

This procedure informs the trustee (or debtor in possession) representing the bankruptcy estate of the debtor of the procedure to be followed in obtaining a prompt determination by the Service of any unpaid tax liability of the estate incurred during the administration of the case. Rev. Proc. 81-17 obsoleted.

EXCISE TAX

This procedure informs the trustee (or debtor in possession) representing the bankruptcy estate of the debtor of the procedure to be followed in obtaining a prompt determination by the Service of any unpaid tax liability of the estate incurred during the administration of the case. Rev. Proc. 81-17 obsoleted.

ADMINISTRATIVE

This procedure informs the trustee (or debtor in possession) representing the bankruptcy estate of the debtor of the procedure to be followed in obtaining a prompt determination by the Service of any unpaid tax liability of the estate incurred during the administration of the case. Rev. Proc. 81-17 obsoleted.



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