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Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2014-48 | Internal Revenue Service
Internal Revenue Bulletin: 2014-48
T.D. 9700
T.D. 9702
Notice 201469
Notice 201470
Announcement 201432
Notice 2014–69 Notice 2014–69
Group Health Plans that Fail to Cover In-Patient Hospitalization Services. The IRS, the Treasury Department, and the Department of Health and Human Services plan to publish proposed regulations providing that employer-sponsored health plans that fail to provide substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization or physician services do not provide minimum value within the meaning of Code § 36B. Employers offering these plans should exercise caution in relying on the Minimum Value Calculator for any portion of a taxable year after publication of final regulations to demonstrate that the plans provide minimum value.
T.D. 9700 T.D. 9700
Final regulations clarify the regulations under section 312 regarding the allocation of earnings and profits in tax-free transfers from one corporation to another and modify the definition of an acquiring corporation for purposes of section 381 with regard to certain acquisitions of assets.
T.D. 9702 T.D. 9702
These final regulations provide clarification regarding the determination of the basis of stock or securities in certain reorganizations where no stock or securities of the issuing corporation is issued and distributed in the transaction. These final regulations clarify that only a shareholder that owns actual shares in the issuing corporation in such a reorganization can designate the actual share of stock of the issuing corporation to which the basis, if any, of the stock or securities surrendered will attach.
Announcement 2014–32 Announcement 2014–32
This announcement is a follow-up to Announcement 2014–15, 2014–16 I.R.B. 973, addressing the application to Individual Retirement Accounts and Individual Retirement Annuities (collectively, “IRAs”) of the one-rollover-per-year limitation of § 408(d)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Notice 2014–70 Notice 2014–70
This notice sets forth certain cost-of-living adjustments effective January 1, 2015, applicable to the dollar limitations on benefits and contributions under qualified retirement plans. Other limitations applicable to deferred compensation plans are also affected by these adjustments under § 415. Under § 415(d), the adjustments are to be made pursuant to adjustment procedures which are similar to those used to adjust benefit amounts under § 215(i)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act. This notice also contains cost-of-living adjustments for several pension-related amounts in restating the data in IR–2014–99 issued October 23, 2014.
This document contains amendments to 26 CFR part 1 under section 312 and section 381 of the Code. On April 16, 2012, the IRS and the Treasury Department published a notice of proposed rulemaking (REG–141268–11) in the Federal Register (77 FR 22515) containing proposed regulations under section 312 (proposed section 312 regulations) to clarify § 1.312–11 regarding the allocation of earnings and profits in nonrecognition transfers of property from one corporation to another. The proposed section 312 regulations provided that, in a transfer described in section 381(a) (section 381 transaction), the acquiring corporation, as defined in § 1.381(a)–1(b)(2), would succeed to the earnings and profits of the distributor or transferor corporation. For example, in a reorganization under section 368(a)(1) by reason of section 368(a)(2)(C), if the transferee corporation that directly acquires a transferor corporation’s assets transferred some, but not all, of the acquired assets to a controlled subsidiary, the transferee corporation (the acquiring corporation under § 1.381(a)–1(b)(2)) would succeed to the transferor corporation’s earnings and profits. However, if the transferee corporation instead transferred all of the acquired assets to a controlled subsidiary, then the controlled subsidiary (the acquiring corporation under § 1.381(a)–1(b)(2)) would succeed to the transferor corporation’s earnings and profits.
Comments responding to the proposed section 312 regulations were received, but no public hearing was requested or held. In response to the comments received on the proposed section 312 regulations, on May 7, 2014, the IRS and the Treasury Department published a notice of proposed rulemaking (REG–131239–13) in the Federal Register (79 FR 26190) containing proposed regulations under section 381 (proposed section 381 regulations) to modify the definition of an acquiring corporation for purposes of section 381 with regard to certain acquisitions of assets. As discussed in the preamble to the proposed section 381 regulations, commenters generally welcomed the apparent certainty provided by the proposed section 312 regulations regarding the location of the transferor corporation’s earnings and profits. However, commenters suggested that this certainty was illusory because the existing definition of “acquiring corporation” under § 1.381(a)–1(b)(2) focused on whether the direct transferee corporation in a reorganization further transferred all of the assets it received in the section 381 transaction. Thus, commenters suggested that the existing regulations under section 381 should be revised to limit the degree of electivity regarding the identity of the acquiring corporation, as well as the uncertainty regarding whether all of the assets transferred in the section 381 transaction were further transferred to a single controlled corporation.
The proposed section 381 regulations provided greater certainty regarding the identity of the acquiring corporation by providing that, in a transaction described in section 381(a)(2), the term acquiring corporation means the corporation that directly acquired the assets transferred by the transferor corporation, even if the direct transferee corporation ultimately retained none of the assets so transferred. As discussed in the preamble to the proposed section 381 regulations, the IRS and the Treasury Department believe that this rule is appropriate with respect to determining the location of the earnings and profits (as well as other tax attributes) of a transferor corporation because it generally maintains such earnings and profits at the corporation closest to the transferor corporation’s former shareholders in a manner that minimizes electivity and administrative burden. No comments were received in response to the proposed section 381 regulations, and no public hearing was requested or held.
However, these final regulations make a clarifying, non-substantive change to the proposed section 312 regulations. The proposed section 312 regulations provided that “[e]xcept as provided in § 1.312–10, in all other cases in which property is transferred from one corporation to another and no gain or loss is recognized (or is recognized only to the extent of the property received other than that permitted to be received without the recognition of gain), no allocation of the earnings and profits of the transferor is made to the transferee.” These final regulations remove the language “and no gain or loss is recognized (or is recognized only to the extent of the property received other than that permitted to be received without the recognition of gain).” The IRS and the Treasury Department believe this language may inappropriately imply that allocation of earnings and profits may be permitted in cases in which gain not expressly described is recognized on the transfer of property between corporations (for example, gain required to be recognized under section 367 or 1001). This clarifying, non-substantive change confirms that except as provided in § 1.312–10, in all other cases in which property is transferred from one corporation to another, no allocation of earnings and profits is made.
Par. 2. Section 1.312–11 is amended by revising paragraph (a) and adding paragraph (e) to read as follows:
§ 1.312–11 Effect on earnings and profits of certain other tax-free exchanges, tax-free distributions, and tax-free transfers from one corporation to another.
(a) In a transfer described in section 381(a), the acquiring corporation, as defined in § 1.381(a)–1(b)(2), and only that corporation, succeeds to the earnings and profits of the distributor or transferor corporation (within the meaning of § 1.381(a)–1(a)). Except as provided in § 1.312–10, in all other cases in which property is transferred from one corporation to another, no allocation of the earnings and profits of the transferor is made to the transferee.
Par. 3. Section 1.381(a)–1 is amended by:
§ 1.381(a)–1 General rule relating to carryovers in certain corporate acquisitions.
§ 1.381(c)(2)–1 [Amended]
Par. 4. Section 1.381(c)(2)–1 is amended by removing paragraph (d).
(Filed by the Office of the Federal Register on November 7, 2014, 8:45 a.m., and published in the issue of the Federal Register for November 10, 2014, 79 F.R. 66616)
Effective Date: These regulations are effective on November 12, 2014.
Michael R. Gould, (202) 317-5363, or Kevin M. Jacobs, (202) 317-5024 (not toll-free numbers).
This Treasury Decision contains final regulations that amend the Income Tax Regulations (26 CFR part 1) under section 358(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). In the case of certain reorganizations under section 368, section 358(a) and the regulations thereunder provide, in part, rules for determining a taxpayer’s basis in stock or securities of an issuing corporation received without the recognition of gain or loss (permitted property), as well as rules relating to the basis of other property received in the reorganization. These final regulations clarify the rules under section 358(a) regarding the allocation of stock basis in a transaction that qualifies as a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(D) (D reorganization) in which no permitted property is actually issued (All Cash D reorganization).
2. D Reorganizations Generally
Section 368(a)(1)(D) provides, in part, that a reorganization includes a transfer by a corporation (transferor corporation) of all or a part of its assets to another corporation (issuing corporation) if, immediately after the transfer, the transferor corporation or one or more of its shareholders (including persons who were shareholders immediately before the transfer), or any combination thereof, is in control of the issuing corporation, but only if, in pursuance of the plan, stock or securities of the issuing corporation are distributed under section 354, 355, or 356.
Under section 354(a)(1), a shareholder or security holder of the transferor corporation generally recognizes no gain or loss if the shareholder or security holder exchanges stock or securities of the transferor corporation, in pursuance of the plan of reorganization, solely for permitted property. Section 354(b)(1) provides that section 354(a)(1) is inapplicable to a D reorganization unless the issuing corporation acquires substantially all of the assets of the transferor corporation, and the stock, securities, and other properties received by the transferor corporation, as well as the other properties of the transferor corporation, are distributed in pursuance of the plan of reorganization. Further, section 356 provides, in part, that if section 354 would apply to an exchange but for the fact that property other than permitted property is also received, the recipient recognizes gain, but not in excess of the amount of money and fair market value of such other property.
3. All Cash D Reorganizations
On December 18, 2009, the IRS and the Treasury Department published final regulations (TD 9475) in the Federal Register (74 FR 67053) (2009 regulations) providing that the distribution requirement of section 368(a)(1)(D) and 354(b)(1)(B) is satisfied in the case of an All Cash D reorganization even though there is no actual distribution of permitted property by the transferor corporation, provided the same person(s) own, directly or indirectly, all of the stock of the transferor and issuing corporations in identical proportions. See § 1.368–2(l)(2)(i). In such cases, assuming a value-for-value exchange between the transferor and issuing corporations, the issuing corporation is deemed to issue a nominal share of its stock in addition to the actual consideration exchanged for the transferor corporation’s assets. If the issuing corporation provides the transferor corporation with no consideration or consideration having a value less than the transferor corporation’s assets (bargain exchange), the issuing corporation is treated as issuing shares of its stock having a value necessary to result in a value-for-value exchange. The rules of § 1.368–2(l) further provide that all stock treated as issued, or deemed issued, by the issuing corporation to the transferor corporation is then deemed distributed by the transferor corporation to its shareholders and, if appropriate, further transferred through chains of ownership to the extent necessary to reflect the actual ownership of the transferor and issuing corporations.
The 2009 regulations also amended the regulations under § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii). Prior to being amended by the 2009 regulations, these regulations provided a two-step rule under section 358 for allocating the basis of stock or securities of a transferor corporation surrendered as a result of a bargain exchange by a shareholder or security holder (bargain exchange basis rule). First, a shareholder or security holder was generally treated as receiving the consideration actually received in the transaction and an amount of stock of the issuing corporation having a value equal to the difference in value between the stock or securities surrendered in the transaction and the consideration actually received. Second, the shareholder or security holder was treated as surrendering all of its stock and securities that it actually owned and was treated as owning of the issuing corporation in a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(E) in exchange for the shares of stock and securities of the issuing corporation actually held immediately after the transaction.
The 2009 regulations added a new sentence after the bargain exchange basis rule that permitted a shareholder that was deemed to have received a nominal share of issuing corporation stock under § 1.368–2(l) to, after adjusting the basis of the nominal share under the rules of §§ 1.358–1 and 1.358–2, designate a share of the issuing corporation’s stock to which the basis, if any, of the nominal share would attach (nominal share basis designation rule).
4. Temporary Regulations
On November 21, 2011, the IRS and the Treasury Department published temporary regulations (TD 9558) in the Federal Register (76 FR 71878) to amend § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii) of the 2009 regulations in response to an inappropriate interpretation of those rules. Certain taxpayers had taken the position that a shareholder of a transferor corporation who did not own any actual shares of an issuing corporation’s stock immediately after the section 354 or section 356 exchange in a value-for-value All Cash D reorganization was permitted to designate another person’s share of the issuing corporation’s stock as the share to which the nominal share’s basis could attach. For example, assume that corporation P owns all of the stock of corporations S1 and S2, and that S1 owns all of the stock of corporation S3. If S3 (the transferor corporation) transfers to S2 all of its assets (subject to liabilities) having a value of $100x in exchange for $100x of cash, S2 (the issuing corporation) would be deemed to issue a nominal share of its stock to S3 under § 1.368–2(l)(2), provided the transaction otherwise qualified as a D reorganization. S3 would then be deemed to distribute the nominal S2 share to S1 in the section 356 exchange. Because S1 received a nominal S2 share but did not actually own any S2 stock, § 1.368–2(l)(2) would require that the nominal S2 share be treated as distributed by S1 to P to reflect the actual ownership of S2 and P’s basis in the nominal share would be its fair market value under section 301(d). In an attempt to avoid this result under similar circumstances, certain taxpayers took the position that S1 was permitted to, after allocating the basis of its S3 stock to the nominal S2 share under the rules of §§ 1.358–1 and 1.358–2, designate a share of S2 stock that was actually held by P to which S1’s basis in the nominal S2 share would attach. These taxpayers further took the position that such designation and allocation could occur immediately before the nominal S2 share was deemed (under § 1.368–2(l)) to be further transferred through the chain of ownership to reflect the actual ownership of S3 and S2.
Under this interpretation, any built-in loss in the shares of transferor corporation stock (which the 2009 regulations allocated to the nominal share of issuing corporation stock) would be preserved even if a direct shareholder of the transferor corporation did not directly own stock of the issuing corporation. Taxpayers could thus avoid losing the built-in loss in the nominal share, which may have occurred as a result of the deemed transfer(s) of the nominal share through the chains of ownership to the actual shareholder(s) of the issuing corporation. In addition, the actual shareholder could then sell the share of the issuing corporation’s stock to which the nominal share’s basis was allocated and recognize a loss or a reduced amount of gain.
The IRS and the Treasury Department did not intend for the nominal share basis designation rule of the 2009 regulations to allow such an inappropriate allocation of basis and do not believe the 2009 regulations have ever supported such an allocation. The temporary regulations therefore clarified the application of the nominal share basis designation rule of the 2009 regulations. Specifically, the temporary regulations provided that, using the facts of the example described earlier in this section, because P (an actual shareholder of S2 (the issuing corporation)) is deemed to receive a nominal share of S2 stock described in § 1.368–2(l), P must, after allocating and adjusting the basis of the nominal S2 share in accordance with the rules of §§ 1.358–1 and 1.358–2, and after adjusting the basis in the nominal S2 share for any transfers described in § 1.368–2(l) (that is the transfer from S3 to S1 and from S1 to P), designate the share of S2 stock actually held by P to which the basis, if any, of the nominal S2 share will attach. The purpose of the temporary regulations was to clarify that only a shareholder that owned actual shares of the issuing corporation’s stock immediately after a value-for-value All Cash D reorganization could designate one of its actual shares of the issuing corporation’s stock to which the nominal share’s basis, if any, would attach.
A notice of proposed rulemaking (REG–101273–10) cross-referencing the temporary regulations was also published in the Federal Register (76 FR 71919) on November 21, 2011. No written comments were received in response to the notice of proposed rulemaking. In addition, no requests for a public hearing were received, and accordingly, no hearing was held.
This Treasury Decision adopts the temporary regulations with clarifying changes. These changes include redesignating the paragraphs under § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii) to separate newly designated § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii)(A), the bargain exchange basis rule, and newly designated § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii)(B), the nominal share basis designation rule, and clarifying the language of these rules. The IRS and the Treasury Department do not intend any substantive changes to the rules of the temporary regulations.
The changes to newly designated § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii)(A)(1) and (2) were made to clarify that the deemed recapitalization under the second step of the bargain exchange basis rule occurs only after the stock treated as issued by the issuing corporation pursuant to § 1.368–2(l) is held by a shareholder that actually owns issuing corporation stock. Thus, using the facts of the example described in section 4 of this preamble, except that the consideration provided by S2 is not $100 of cash but only $90 of cash, because S1 (the shareholder of S3 (the transferor corporation)) does not actually own any stock of S2 (the issuing corporation), the basis of the S2 stock treated as issued under the first step of the bargain exchange basis rule that S1 receives in the section 356 exchange is determined under §§ 1.358–1 and 1.358–2 (without regard to the second step of the bargain exchange basis rule or the nominal share basis designation rule) and then further adjusted for the transfer to P described in § 1.368–2(l) prior to the deemed recapitalization of the stock of S2 that P actually holds and is deemed to hold.
The numbering changes reflected in newly designated § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii)(A)(1), (2) and (B) were made to clarify that the nominal share basis designation rule applies in cases in which a nominal share of issuing corporation stock is deemed issued under § 1.368–2(l). Additional changes were made under § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii) to emphasize that the nominal share basis designation rule applies only after an actual shareholder of the issuing corporation receives the nominal share pursuant to § 1.368–2(l), and that such a shareholder must attach the nominal share’s basis to a share of the issuing corporation’s stock that the particular shareholder actually owns.
In addition, the analysis of Example 16 of § 1.358–2(c) has been clarified to confirm that Corporation P must designate a share of Corporation Y stock to which the distributed nominal share’s zero basis will attach. This designation of the share to which the basis of a nominal share must attach is relevant in various scenarios, including if an affiliated group files a consolidated return and must determine the particular share that is a successor asset for purposes of § 1.1502–13. Finally, minor editorial changes were made to reflect the new paragraph designations under § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii) and to make Examples 15 and 16 of § 1.358–2(c) consistent with the clarifying changes adopted by the final regulations.
It has been determined that this Treasury Decision is not a significant regulatory action as defined in Executive Order 12866, as supplemented by Executive Order 13563. Therefore, a regulatory assessment is not required. It has also been determined that section 553(b) of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 5) does not apply to these regulations, and because these regulations do not impose a collection of information on small entities, the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 6) does not apply. Pursuant to section 7805(f) of the Code, the notice of proposed rulemaking preceding these regulations was submitted to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration for comment on its impact on small businesses, and no comments were received.
The principal author of these regulations is Michael R. Gould of the Office of Associate Chief Counsel (Corporate). However, other personnel from the IRS and the Treasury Department participated in their development.
Section 1.358–2 is also issued under 26 U.S.C. 358(b).
Par. 2. Section 1.358–2 is amended by:
2. Adding new Example 15 and Example 16 to paragraph (c).
(iii)(A) For purposes of this section, if a shareholder or security holder surrenders a share of stock or a security in a transaction under the terms of section 354 (or so much of section 356 as relates to section 354) in which the shareholder or security holder receives no property or property (including property permitted by section 354 to be received without the recognition of gain or “other property” or money) with a fair market value less than that of the stock or securities surrendered in the transaction:
(1) Such shareholder or security holder shall be treated as receiving the stock, securities, other property, and money actually received by the shareholder or security holder in the transaction and an amount of stock of the issuing corporation (as defined in § 1.368–1(b)) that has a value equal to the excess of the value of the stock or securities the shareholder or security holder surrendered in the transaction over the value of the stock, securities, other property, and money the shareholder or security holder actually received in the transaction. If the shareholder owns only one class of stock of the issuing corporation the receipt of which would be consistent with the economic rights associated with each class of stock of the issuing corporation, the stock deemed received by the shareholder pursuant to the previous sentence shall be stock of such class. If the shareholder owns multiple classes of stock of the issuing corporation the receipt of which would be consistent with the economic rights associated with each class of stock of the issuing corporation, the stock deemed received by the shareholder shall be stock of each such class owned by the shareholder immediately prior to the transaction, in proportion to the value of the stock of each such class owned by the shareholder at that time. The basis of each share of stock or security of the issuing corporation deemed received and actually received shall be determined under the rules of this section. If and to the extent necessary to reflect the actual ownership of the issuing corporation immediately after the exchange to which section 354 (or so much of section 356 as relates to section 354) applies, an appropriate amount of the stock of the issuing corporation treated as issued to the shareholder or security holder in the exchange is deemed further transferred in accordance with § 1.368–2(l) to reflect the actual ownership of the issuing corporation. Paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(A)(2) of this section is only applied to any shareholder of the issuing corporation after all of the deemed transfers pursuant to § 1.368–2(l) are completed. The transferred shares’ basis shall be adjusted for all deemed transfers required by § 1.368–2(l).
(2) A direct shareholder of the issuing corporation that receives the shares deemed issued as part of the transaction, as described in paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(A)(1) of this section, shall then be treated as surrendering all of its shares of stock and securities in the issuing corporation, including those shares of stock or securities held immediately prior to the transaction, those shares of stock or securities actually received in the transaction, and those shares of stock deemed received as described in paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(A)(1) of this section, in a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(E) in exchange for the shares of stock and securities of the issuing corporation that the shareholder or security holder actually holds immediately after the transaction. The basis of each share of stock and security deemed received in the reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(E) shall be determined under the rules of this section.
(B) For purposes of this section, if an actual shareholder of the issuing corporation is deemed to receive a nominal share of stock of the issuing corporation as provided in § 1.368–2(l), then that shareholder must, after allocating and adjusting the basis of the nominal share in accordance with the rules of this section and § 1.358–1, designate the share of stock of the issuing corporation that it owns to which the basis, if any, of the nominal share will attach. If the shareholder does not actually own any shares of stock in the issuing corporation immediately after the exchange to which section 354 (or so much of section 356 as relates to section 354) applies, the nominal share of stock of the issuing corporation received by the shareholder in the exchange is deemed further transferred in accordance with § 1.368–2(l) without applying the designation rule set forth in the first sentence of this paragraph until it is transferred to a person that actually owns stock in the issuing corporation. The transferred share’s basis shall be adjusted for all deemed transfers required by § 1.368–2(l).
Example 15. (i) Facts. Each of Corporation X and Corporation Y has a single class of stock outstanding, all of which is owned by J, an individual. J purchased 100 shares of Corporation X stock on Date 1 for $1.50 each, resulting in J having an aggregate basis in the stock of Corporation X of $150. On Date 2, Corporation Y acquires the assets of Corporation X for $100 of cash, their fair market value, in a transaction described in § 1.368–2(l). Pursuant to the terms of the exchange, Corporation X does not receive any Corporation Y stock. Corporation X distributes the $100 of cash to J and retains no assets.
(ii) Analysis. Pursuant to § 1.368–2(l), Corporation Y will be deemed to issue a nominal share of Corporation Y stock to Corporation X in addition to the $100 of cash actually exchanged for the Corporation X assets. Corporation X will then be deemed to distribute the nominal share of Corporation Y stock to J in addition to the $100 of cash actually distributed to J. Pursuant to § 1.368–2(l), J, the actual shareholder of Corporation Y, the issuing corporation, is deemed to receive the nominal share of Corporation Y stock described in § 1.368–2(l). J will have a basis of $50 in the nominal share of Corporation Y stock under section 358(a)(1). Therefore, under paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(B) of this section, J must designate a share of Corporation Y stock to which J’s basis of $50 in the nominal share of Corporation Y stock will attach.
Example 16. (i) Facts. Each of Corporation X and Corporation Y has a single class of stock outstanding, all of which is owned by Corporation P. Corporation T has a single class of stock outstanding, all of which is owned by Corporation X. The corporations do not join in the filing of a consolidated return. Corporation X purchased 100 shares of Corporation T stock on Date 1 for $1.50 each, resulting in Corporation X having an aggregate basis in the stock of Corporation T of $150. On Date 2, Corporation Y acquires the assets of Corporation T for $100 of cash, their fair market value, in a transaction described in § 1.368–2(l). Pursuant to the terms of the exchange, Corporation T does not receive any Corporation Y stock. Corporation T distributes the $100 of cash to Corporation X and retains no assets.
(ii) Analysis. Pursuant to § 1.368–2(l), Corporation Y will be deemed to issue a nominal share of Corporation Y stock to Corporation T in addition to the $100 of cash actually exchanged for the Corporation T assets. Corporation T will be deemed to distribute the nominal share of Corporation Y stock to Corporation X in addition to the $100 of cash actually distributed. Corporation X will have a basis of $50 in the nominal share of Corporation Y stock under section 358(a). However, Corporation X is not an actual shareholder of Corporation Y, the issuing corporation. Therefore, Corporation X cannot designate any share of Corporation Y stock under paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(B) of this section to which the basis of the nominal share of Corporation Y stock will attach and Corporation X will be deemed to distribute the nominal share of Corporation Y stock to Corporation P as required by § 1.368–2(l). Corporation X does not recognize the loss on the deemed distribution of the nominal share to Corporation P under section 311(a). Corporation P’s basis in the nominal share it receives is zero, its fair market value, under section 301(d). Under paragraph (a)(2)(iii)(B) of this section, Corporation P must designate a share of Corporation Y stock to which the nominal share’s zero basis will attach.
(d) Effective/applicability date. This section generally applies to exchanges and distributions of stock and securities occurring on or after January 23, 2006. However, paragraph (a)(2)(iii) and Examples 15 and 16 of paragraph (c) of this section apply to exchanges and distributions of stock and securities occurring on or after November 12, 2014. See § 1.358–2T(a)(2)(iii) and § 1.358–2T(c), Examples 15 and 16, as contained in 26 CFR part 1, revised April 1, 2014, for exchanges and distributions of stock and securities occurring on or after November 21, 2011 and before November 12, 2014; see § 1.358–2(a)(2)(iii), as contained in 26 CFR part 1, revised as of April 1, 2011, for exchanges and distributions of stock and securities occurring on or after January 23, 2006 and before November 21, 2011.
§ 1.358–2T [Removed]
Par. 3. Section 1.358–2T is removed.
(Filed by the Office of the Federal Register on November 10, 2014, 8:45 a.m., and published in the issue of the Federal Register for November 12, 2014, 79 F.R. 67059)
Notice 2014–69
Questions have been raised as to whether plans that fail to provide substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization services should satisfy the requirements for providing minimum value. Concerns have been raised as to whether the continuance tables underlying the MV Calculator (and thus the MV Calculator) produce valid actuarial results for unconventional plan designs that exclude substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization services. These concerns include that the standard population and other underlying assumptions used in developing the MV Calculator and associated continuance tables are based on typical self-insured employer-sponsored plans, essentially all of which historically have included coverage for these services, and that designing a plan to exclude such coverage could substantially affect the composition of the population covered by discouraging enrollment by employees who have, or anticipate that they might have, significant health issues. It has been suggested that these and other effects resulting from excluding substantial coverage of in-patient hospitalization services may not be adequately taken into account by the MV Calculator and its underlying continuance tables. Similar concerns have been raised regarding the possibility of using the MV calculator to demonstrate that an unconventional plan design that excludes substantial coverage of physician services provides minimum value.
The Departments believe that plans that fail to provide substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization services or for physician services (or for both) (referred to in this notice as Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plans) do not provide the minimum value intended by the minimum value requirement and will shortly propose regulations to this effect with a view to being in a position to finalize such regulations during 2015 and make them applicable upon finalization. Accordingly, employers should consider the consequences of the inability to rely solely on the MV Calculator (or any actuarial certification or valuation) to demonstrate that a Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan provides minimum value for any portion of any taxable year ending on or after January 1, 2015, that follows finalization of such regulations. However, solely in the case of an employer that has entered into a binding written commitment to adopt, or has begun enrolling employees in, a Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan prior to November 4, 2014 based on the employer’s reliance on the results of use of the MV Calculator (a Pre-November 4, 2014 Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan), the Departments anticipate that final regulations, when issued, will not be applicable for purposes of Code section 4980H with respect to the plan before the end of the plan year (as in effect under the terms of the plan on November 3, 2014) if that plan year begins no later than March 1, 2015.
An employee or family member who is offered coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan that offers affordable MV coverage for the employee may not receive premium tax credit assistance under Code section 36B for coverage in a qualified health plan. An applicable large employer (as defined in Code section 4980H(c)(2)) may be liable for a section 4980H assessable payment if one or more of its full-time employees receives a premium tax credit.
Under Code section 36B(c)(2)(C)(ii), a plan provides MV if the plan’s share of the total allowed costs of benefits provided under the plan is at least 60 percent of the costs. Section 1302(d)(2)(C) of the Affordable Care Act provides that in determining the percentage of the total allowed costs of benefits provided by a group health plan or health insurance coverage under the Code, as well as under the Public Health Service Act (PHSA), regulations promulgated by the Secretary of HHS under section 1302(d)(2), addressing actuarial value, apply.
HHS published final regulations under section 1302(d)(2) on February 25, 2013 (78 FR 12834), effective on April 26, 2013. For plans required to cover the essential health benefits (EHB), the HHS regulations define the percentage of the total allowed costs of benefits as (1) the anticipated covered medical spending for EHB (as defined in 45 CFR 156.110(a)) paid by a health plan for a standard population, (2) computed in accordance with the plan’s cost-sharing, and (3) divided by the total anticipated allowed charges for EHB coverage provided to a standard population. 45 CFR 156.20.
As stated in the preamble to the HHS regulations (see 78 FR 12833), employer-sponsored group health plans are not required to offer EHBs unless they are insured health plans offered in the small group market subject to section 2707(a) of the PHSA. The preamble also states that MV is measured based on the provision of EHBs to a standard population based on typical self-insured group health plans and that, in determining MV, plans may take into account those benefits covered by the employer that are covered in any one of the state EHB-benchmark plans. See 45 CFR 156.145(b).
Proposed regulations under Code section 36B on MV published by Treasury and the IRS on May 3, 2013 (78 FR 25909), apply these rules in defining the standard population for MV purposes and the MV percentage. The proposed Code section 36B regulations provide that the MV percentage is determined by dividing the plan’s anticipated spending (based on the plan’s cost-sharing) for EHB under any one state benchmark plan by the total cost of EHBs for the standard population and converting the result to a percentage. Proposed 26 CFR 1.36B–6(c). Neither the final HHS regulations nor the proposed Code section 36B regulations require employer-sponsored self-insured and insured large group plans to cover every EHB category or conform their plans to an EHB benchmark that applies to individual and small group market plans.
The HHS regulations allow MV to be determined using an MV Calculator (available at http://cciio.cms.gov/resources/regulations/index.html) or a safe harbor established by HHS and the IRS. Under the regulations, plans with “nonstandard” features that are incompatible with the MV Calculator or a safe harbor may determine MV through an actuarial certification from a member of the American Academy of Actuaries. A plan in the small group market provides MV if it meets the requirements for any of the levels of metal coverage defined at 45 CFR 156.140(b) (bronze, silver, gold, or platinum).
The proposed Code section 36B regulations require plans to determine MV by using either a safe harbor or the MV Calculator. Employers using the MV Calculator may, however, supplement the MV Calculator by obtaining actuarial valuation of a plan’s nonstandard features.
HHS intends to promptly propose amending 45 CFR 156.145 to provide that a plan will not provide minimum value if it excludes substantial coverage for in-patient hospitalization services or physician services (or both). Treasury and the IRS intend to issue proposed regulations that apply these proposed HHS regulations under Code section 36B. Accordingly, under the HHS and Treasury regulations, an employer will not be permitted to use the MV Calculator (or any actuarial certification or valuation) to demonstrate that a Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan provides minimum value.
A. Employer Duty to Inform Employees
An employer that offers a Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan (including a Pre-November 4, 2014 Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan) to an employee (1) must not state or imply in any disclosure that the offer of coverage under the Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan precludes an employee from obtaining a premium tax credit, if otherwise eligible, and (2) must timely correct any prior disclosures that stated or implied that the offer of the Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan would preclude an otherwise tax-credit-eligible employee from obtaining a premium tax credit. Without such a corrective disclosure, a statement (for example, in a summary of benefits and coverage) that a Non-Hospital/Non-Physician Services Plan provides minimum value will be considered to imply that the offer of such a plan precludes employees from obtaining a premium tax credit. However, an employer that also offers an employee another plan that is not a Non-Hospital/Non/-Physician Services Plan and that is affordable and provides MV is permitted to advise the employee that the offer of this other plan will or may preclude the employee from obtaining a premium tax credit.
The Departments have coordinated on the guidance and other information contained in this notice, and HHS is concurrently issuing parallel guidance. Questions concerning the information contained in this notice may be directed to HHS at 301–492–5153 or the IRS at 202–317–7006. Additional information for employers regarding the Affordable Care Act is available at www.healthcare.gov, www.irs.gov/ACA, and www.business.usa.gov.
Notice 2014–70
2015 Limitations Adjusted As Provided in Section 415(d), etc.[1]
For a participant who separated from service before January 1, 2015, the participant’s limitation under a defined benefit plan under § 415(b)(1)(B) is computed by multiplying the participant’s compensation limitation, as adjusted through 2014, by 1.0178.
The limitation under § 402(g)(1) on the exclusion for elective deferrals described in § 402(g)(3) is increased from $17,500 to $ 18,000.
The dollar limitation under § 416(i)(1)(A)(i) concerning the definition of key employee in a top-heavy plan remains unchanged at $170,000.
The limitation used in the definition of highly compensated employee under § 414(q)(1)(B) is increased from $115,000 to $ 120,000.
The dollar limitation under § 414(v)(2)(B)(i) for catch-up contributions to an applicable employer plan other than a plan described in § 401(k)(11) or 408(p) for individuals aged 50 or over is increased from $5,500 to $6,000. The dollar limitation under § 414(v)(2)(B)(ii) for catch-up contributions to an applicable employer plan described in § 401(k)(11) or 408(p) for individuals aged 50 or over is increased from $2,500 to $ 3,000.
The compensation amounts under § 1.61–21(f)(5)(i) of the Income Tax Regulations concerning the definition of “control employee” for fringe benefit valuation purposes remains unchanged at $105,000. The compensation amount under § 1.61–21(f)(5)(iii) is increased from $210,000 to $215,000.
The adjusted gross income limitation under § 408A(c)(3)(B)(ii)(I) for determining the maximum Roth IRA contribution for married taxpayers filing a joint return or for taxpayers filing as a qualifying widow(er) is increased from $181,000 to $183,000. The adjusted gross income limitation under § 408A(c)(3)(B)(ii)(II) for all other taxpayers (other than married taxpayers filing separate returns) is increased from $114,000 to $116,000. The applicable dollar amount under § 408A(c)(3)(B)(ii)(III) for a married individual filing a separate return is not subject to an annual cost-of-living adjustment and remains $0.
The dollar amount under § 430(c)(7)(D)(i)(II) used to determine excess employee compensation with respect to a single-employer defined benefit pension plan for which the special election under § 430(c)(2)(D) has been made is increased from $1,084,000 to $1,101,000.
The principal author of this notice is John Heil of the Employee Plans, Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division. For further information regarding the data in this notice, please contact the Employee Plans’ taxpayer assistance telephone service at 1-877-829-5500 (a toll-free number) between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Eastern time Monday through Friday. For information regarding the methodology used in arriving at the data in this notice, please e-mail Mr. Heil at RetirementPlanQuestions@irs.gov.
[1] Based on News Release IR–2014–99 dated October 23, 2014
Announcement 2014–32
Section 408(d)(3)(A)(i) provides generally that any amount distributed from an IRA will not be included in the gross income of the distributee to the extent the amount is paid into an IRA for the benefit of the distributee no later than 60 days after the distributee receives the distribution (often referred to as a “60-day rollover”). Section 408(d)(3)(B) provides that an individual is permitted to make only one nontaxable 60-day rollover between IRAs in any 1-year period. As discussed in Announcement 2014–15, Proposed Regulation § 1.408–4(b)(4)(ii) and IRS Publication 590, Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs), provided that the one-rollover-per-year limitation was applied on an IRA-by-IRA basis. However, the Tax Court in Bobrow v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2014–21, held that the limitation applies on an aggregate basis, meaning that an individual could not make more than one nontaxable 60-day rollover within each 1-year period even if the rollovers involved different IRAs. In Announcement 2014–15, the IRS indicated that it anticipated following the interpretation of § 408(d)(3)(B) in Bobrow, and accordingly that it would withdraw the proposed regulation and revise Publication 590 to the extent needed to follow that interpretation, but that it would not apply the Bobrow interpretation of § 408(d)(3)(B) before 2015. Consistent with Announcement 2014–15, Proposed Regulation § 1.408–4(b)(4)(ii) was withdrawn on July 11, 2014 (79 FR 40031), and subsequent relevant IRS publications (including new Publication 590–A, Contributions to Individual Retirement Arrangements (IRAs)) will reflect the Bobrow interpretation of § 408(d)(3)(B).
This announcement is intended to address certain concerns that have arisen since the release of Announcement 2014–15. The IRS will apply the Bobrow interpretation of § 408(d)(3)(B) for distributions that occur on or after January 1, 2015. This means that an individual receiving an IRA distribution on or after January 1, 2015, cannot roll over any portion of the distribution into an IRA if the individual has received a distribution from any IRA in the preceding 1-year period that was rolled over into an IRA. However, as a transition rule for distributions in 2015, a distribution occurring in 2014 that was rolled over is disregarded for purposes of determining whether a 2015 distribution can be rolled over under § 408(d)(3)(A)(i), provided that the 2015 distribution is from a different IRA that neither made nor received the 2014 distribution. In other words, the Bobrow aggregation rule, which takes into account all distributions and rollovers among an individual’s IRAs, will apply to distributions from different IRAs only if each of the distributions occurs after 2014.
The one-rollover-per-year limitation also does not apply to a rollover to or from a qualified plan (and such a rollover is disregarded in applying the one-rollover-per-year limitation to other rollovers), nor does it apply to trustee-to-trustee transfers. See Rev. Rul. 78–406, 1978–2 C.B. 157. IRA trustees are encouraged to offer IRA owners requesting a distribution for rollover the option of a trustee-to-trustee transfer from one IRA to another IRA. IRA trustees can accomplish a trustee-to-trustee transfer by transferring amounts directly from one IRA to another or by providing the IRA owner with a check made payable to the receiving IRA trustee.
Bulletins 2014–27 through 2014–48
2014-32 2014-48 I.R.B. 2014-48 907
2014-65 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 842
2014-68 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 842
2014-69 2014-48 I.R.B. 2014-48 903
2014-70 2014-48 I.R.B. 2014-48 905
REG-151416-06 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 870
2014-59 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 843
2014-60 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 854
2014-61 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 860
2014-27 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 832
9698 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 836
9700 2014-48 I.R.B. 2014-48 897
9702 2014-48 I.R.B. 2014-48 899
84-102 Obsoleted by REG-151416-06 2014-47 I.R.B. 2014-47 870