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Minimum Essential Coverage, Other Health Care Reform Guidance Issued

The IRS released health care guidance, including final regulations on minimum essential coverage, a list of hardship exemptions from individual shared-responsibility penalty, and indexed adjustments for certain calculations under the premium tax credit.

IRS Finalizes Rules on Relief From Failure to File GRAs

The IRS finalized proposed regulations to update the rules that apply to U.S. taxpayers that fail to file gain recognition agreements when they transfer certain property to foreign corporations in nonrecognition transactions.

IRS Fills in Details of One-a-Year IRA Rollover Rule

The IRS clarified how the recently announced change in how it interprets the statutory one-rollover-per-year rule for IRAs will affect 2014 rollovers and how the rules will apply starting in 2015.

Regulations Finalize Rules on All-Cash D Reorganizations

The IRS finalized temporary regulations regarding the determination of the basis of stock or securities in all-cash D reorganizations where no stock or securities of the issuing corporation is issued and distributed in the transaction.

Filing Season Complications Loom, IRS Commissioner Tells AICPA

The 2015 tax filing season “will be one of the most complicated filing seasons we’ve ever had,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said in a keynote address Tuesday to hundreds of attendees at the AICPA National Tax Conference in Washington.

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IRS generally eliminates 5% safe harbor for determining beginning of construction for wind and solar projects

IRS proposes using NAICS to determine lines of business for certain fringe benefit exclusions

IRS rules that community trust and affiliated nonprofit corporation can file a single Form 990

Prop. regs. issued on new qualified tips deduction

IRS rules for first time that REIT’s income from markup on electricity from EV charging stations is rents from real property