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IRB 2012-06

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(Dated February 6, 2012)
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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

Insurance companies; interest rate tables. Prevailing state assumed interest rates are provided for the determination of reserves under section 807 of the Code for contracts issued in 2011 and 2012. Rev. Rul. 92-19 supplemented in part.

Federal rates; adjusted federal rates; adjusted federal long-term rate and the long-term exempt rate. For purposes of sections 382, 642, 1274, 1288, and other sections of the Code, tables set forth the rates for February 2012.

Final regulations under section 954 of the Code provide guidance relating to foreign base company sales income in cases in which personal property sold by a controlled foreign corporation is purchased, sold, manufactured, produced, grown or extracted by one or more branches of the controlled foreign corporations.

This document contains changes to Publication 1220, Specifications for Filing Forms 1097, 1098, 1099, 3921, 3922, 5498, and W-2G Electronically (Rev. 9-2011), Publication 1187, Specification for Filing Form 1042-S, Foreign Person’s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding, Electronically (Rev. 10-2011), and Publication 1239, Specifications for Filing Form 8027, Employer’s Annual Information Return of Tip Income and Allocated Tips, Electronically (Rev. 10-2011). Rev. Procs. 2011-40, 2011-50, and 2011-51 corrected.

EMPLOYEE PLANS

This document contains a correction to Rev. Proc. 2012-8, 2012-1 I.R.B. 235, which contains a typographical error in section 6.07(5). This announcement corrects that error. Rev. Proc. 2012-8 corrected.

ADMINISTRATIVE

Restitution payments to victims of human trafficking. This notice advises taxpayers that mandatory restitution payments awarded to victims of human trafficking under 18 U.S.C. section 1593 are excluded from gross income under section 61 of the Code for federal income tax purposes.

This document contains changes to Publication 1220, Specifications for Filing Forms 1097, 1098, 1099, 3921, 3922, 5498, and W-2G Electronically (Rev. 9-2011), Publication 1187, Specification for Filing Form 1042-S, Foreign Person’s U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding, Electronically (Rev. 10-2011), and Publication 1239, Specifications for Filing Form 8027, Employer’s Annual Information Return of Tip Income and Allocated Tips, Electronically (Rev. 10-2011). Rev. Procs. 2011-40, 2011-50, and 2011-51 corrected.



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