This Week's Internal Revenue Bulletin

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ADMINISTRATIVE

REV. RUL. 2019-21, page 708. Interest rates: underpayments and overpayments. The rates for interest determined under Section 6621 of the code for the calendar quarter beginning October 1, 2019, will be 5 percent for overpayments (4 percent in the case of a corporation), 5 percent for underpayments, and 7 percent for large corporate underpayments. The rate of interest paid on the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000 will be 2.5 percent.

INCOME TAX

REV. PROC. 2019-23, page 725. This revenue procedure updates and restates Rev. Proc. 2018-36 to include Georgia in the list of jurisdictions with which the United States has in force an information exchange agreement such that bank deposit interest paid to residents of such jurisdictions must be reported by payors to the extent required under Treas. Reg. §§1.6049-8(a) and 1.6049-4(b)(5) and to include Curaçao and Cyprus in the list of jurisdictions with which the Treasury Department and the IRS have determined that it is appropriate to have an automatic exchange relationship with respect to bank deposit interest income information under §§1.6049-8(a) and 1.6049-4(b)(5). Rev. Proc. 2018-36 is superseded.

REV. PROC. 2019-36, page 729. Revenue Procedure 2019-36 provides domestic asset/liability percentages and domestic investment yields needed by foreign life insurance companies and foreign property and liability insurance companies to compute their minimum effectively connected net investment income under section 842(b) of the Internal Revenue Code for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.