On April 16, 2024, the IRS issued fact sheet FS-2024-13 providing answers to frequently asked questions about the tax treatment of work-life referral services provided to employees under an employer’s work-life referral program. The FAQs clarify that, under certain circumstances, the value received from work-life referral services provided to employees through a work-life referral program
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Treasury Greenbook Includes Proposal to Alter Work Opportunity Tax Credit
On March 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of Treasury released the Greenbook (formally known as the General Explanation of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals) for FY 2024 to explain revenue proposals included in the Administration’s budget. One proposal is to increase the number of hours required to be worked by an individual for the employer to…
Administration Proposes Increased Childcare Tax Credit for Employers
As we have been discussing in recent blog posts, the Treasury Department released its Fiscal Year 2024 General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals, commonly called the “Green Book,” on March 9, 2023. This year’s Green Book includes a proposal that both employers and employees are likely to embrace: an enhanced tax credit…
Treasury Greenbook Includes Proposal to Raise the Additional Medicare Tax Rate for High-Income Taxpayers
On March 9, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released the Greenbook (formally known as the General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals), to explain the revenue proposals included in Administration’s budget. One proposal in the Administration’s budget would increase the additional Medicare tax rate by 1.2 percentage points for high-income taxpayers.
Self-employment earnings…
Treasury Reiterates Position on “On-Demand” Pay
Last week, the Treasury Department released the “Green Book,” formally known as the General Explanations of the Administration’s Revenue Proposals. For the second year in a row, the Green Book addresses the treatment of “on-demand” pay arrangements also known as “daily pay” or “earned wage access programs.” These arrangements permit employees to access…
IRS Repeats Cautions Regarding Aggressive Claims for Employee Retention Credit
On March 7, 2023, the IRS issued a renewed warning to employers considering an Employee Retention Credit (“ERC”) claim. While many businesses with legitimate ERC claims have already made them, a cadre of consulting firms have come forward to, in the words of the IRS, “push[] ineligible people to file” claims.…
Supreme Court Limits Penalties for Nonwillful FBAR Failures in Bittner Decision
On February 28, 2023, the Supreme Court decided Bittner v. United States—a rare Supreme Court foray into Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN reporting of foreign bank and financial accounts under the Bank Secrecy Act (“BSA”). The BSA is codified under Title 31 (Money and Finance) of the United States Code rather than Title…
Treasury and IRS Extend Olive Branch to Reporting Model 1 FFIs and Model 1 IGA Jurisdictions Regarding U.S. TIN Reporting for Certain U.S. Accounts
Last week, the IRS issued Notice 2023-11 providing relief procedures for foreign financial institutions (“FFIs”) in countries with Model 1 intergovernmental agreements (“IGAs”) that have failed to provide U.S. taxpayer identification numbers (“TINs”) for certain preexisting accounts. Preexisting accounts are defined in Model 1 IGAs as a financial account maintained by a reporting…
IRS Publishes Last Minute Reprieve for Implementation of New Form 1099-K Reporting Threshold
Today, in Notice 2023-10, the IRS announced a delay in the new reduced reporting threshold for section 6050W applicable to third-party settlement organizations (TPSOs). Section 9674(a) of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 amended section 6050W(e) to provide that, for returns for calendar years beginning after December 31, 2021, a TPSO is required…
IRS Delays Gross Proceeds Reporting, Basis Reporting, and Transfer Statements between Brokers on the Disposition or Transfer of Digital Assets until Final Regulations are Issued
This afternoon, in Announcement 2023-2, the IRS announced that brokers are not required to report additional information with respect to dispositions of digital assets until the IRS and Treasury issue final regulations under sections 6045 and 6045A. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 (the “Act”) amended sections 6045 and 6045A to clarify…