This notice updates the life expectancy and mortality tables used to determine substantially equal periodic payments under the methods set forth in Rev. Rul. 2002-62 and provides a 5 percent floor on the maximum interest rates that may be used to calculate annuity payments under the fixed amortization and annuitization methods. This notice also modifies the guidance in Notice 2004-15 to apply these changes for purposes of section 72(q).

Because of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued Notice 2021-12, 2021-6 I.R.B. 828, as clarified by Notice 2021-17, 2021-14 I.R.B. 984, to provide temporary relief from certain requirements under § 42 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code) for qualified low-income housing projects and under §§ 142(d) and 147(d) of the Code for qualified residential rental projects. In response to the continuing presence of the pandemic and precautions necessitated by new disease variants, this notice provides certain new relief and extends that temporary relief for certain requirements addressed in Notice 2021-12.