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Commissioner Danny Werfel said the IRS is “reversing situations that have long hampered the IRS and frustrated taxpayers.” Treasury and the IRS announced continued improvements in digital systems, attributing those to funding from the Inflation Reduction Act.

Almost 16,000 entities will spend over 8.7 million hours seeking access to beneficial ownership information in the first year, FinCEN estimated in a new notice.

The final regulations reflect changes to the required minimum distribution rules made by the SECURE Act and SECURE 2.0 and generally follow proposed regulations issued in 2022.

The IRS is collecting on tax liabilities that were not “even in dispute,” Commissioner Danny Werfel said, but the IRS did not previously have the resources to pursue payment.

The proposed regulations apply to overpayments of interest on erroneous refunds of COVID-19 credits paid on or after July 2.

A survey by the AICPA shows that almost two-thirds of tax professionals say it takes over 90 days to get a substantive response from the IRS to correspondence.

The final regulations provide guidance regarding the reporting and payment of the excise tax on repurchases of corporate stock made after Dec. 31, 2022.

The final regulations require custodial brokers to report transactions on Form 1099-DA, which the IRS will release soon. A different set of final regulations with rules for decentralized, or noncustodial, brokers will be issued later.

The Court held that the APA requires courts to exercise their independent judgment in deciding whether an agency has acted within its statutory authority and not to defer to an agency’s interpretation of the law simply because a statute is ambiguous.

The IRS is making a time-limited settlement offer to certain taxpayers who participated in syndicated conservation easements. The terms will require “substantial concession” of income tax benefits and the imposition of some penalties.