IRS Guidance

The IRS has issued Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2021-45, which contains cost-of-living adjustments for taxable years beginning in 2022 for over 60 tax provisions, including the following health and welfare benefits.

The IRS has issued Notice 2021-61, which contains the following 2022 retirement savings limitations.

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Hurricane Ida in Connecticut. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began September 1, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in Fairfield and New London counties including the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and Mohegan Tribal Nation, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines, qualify for relief.

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Hurricane Ida in Mississippi. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began August 28, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in Amite, Claiborne, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, George, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Lincoln, Pearl River, Pike, Simpson, Walthall, Wayne, and Wilkinson counties, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines, qualify for relief.

The IRS has released Notice 2021-57, providing guidance for multiemployer defined benefit (DB) plans receiving funding relief under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. The Notice provides guidance regarding the plan sponsor’s ability to elect to delay designating a plan as being in endangered, critical, or critical and declining status or to delay updating the plan’s funding improvement or rehabilitation plan, and to extend the plan’s funding improvement or rehabilitation period. The guidance further explains the plan sponsor’s ability to amortize certain investments and other experience losses related to COVID-19 over a 30-year period in determining charges to the funding standard account.

The IRS has issued Notice 2021-58, which clarifies the application of extension under the “Joint Notification of Extensions of Certain Timeframes for Employee Benefit Plans, Participants, and Beneficiaries Affected by the COVID-19 Outbreak” and additional guidance issued by the Department of Labor’s Emergency Relief Notices. Moreover, this notice addresses the interaction between the Emergency Relief Notices and COBRA premium assistance available under the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Hurricane Ida in Pennsylvania. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began August 31, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and York counties, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines, qualify for relief.

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Tropical Storm Fred in North Carolina. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began August 16, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Madison, Transylvania, Watauga, and Yancey counties, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines, qualify for relief.

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Hurricane Ida in Mississippi. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began August 28, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in all counties in Mississippi and the Mississippi Choctaw Indian Reservation, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines qualify for relief.

The IRS has issued a news release announcing the postponement of certain tax-related deadlines for victims of Hurricane Ida in New Jersey. The tax relief postpones various tax filing deadlines that began September 1, 2021. Affected individuals and households who reside or have a business in Bergen, Gloucester, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Passaic, and Somerset counties, as well as taxpayers with records located in the covered area that are needed to meet covered deadlines qualify for relief. This relief will be automatically granted to taxpayers in Ida-affected locations in other parts of the state subsequently designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).