Compliance Regulations and Guidance Affecting your Industry

This document contains temporary regulations that provide further guidance and clarification regarding methods under section 482 to determine taxable income in connection with a cost sharing arrangement in order to address issues that have arisen in administering the current regulations. The temporary regulations affect domestic and foreign entities that enter into cost sharing arrangements described in the temporary regulations. The text of these temporary regulations also serves as the text of the proposed regulations set forth in the Proposed Rules section in this issue of the Federal Register

Effective Date:This rule is effective  January 5, 2009.

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) is amending its Privacy Act regulations to exempt certain records that are maintained in a system of records entitled ‘‘PBGC–17, Office of Inspector General Investigative File System—PBGC’’ from the access, contest, and certain other provisions of the Privacy Act. The amendment protects the information gathered to carry out the Office of Inspector General’s law enforcement mission to investigate criminal, civil, and administrative matters

Effective Date:This rule is effective July 8, 2009

This document contains final and temporary regulations concerning the amendments made by the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 to section 199 of the Internal Revenue Code. The temporary regulations also contain a rule concerning the use of losses incurred by members of an expanded affiliated group. Section 199 provides a deduction for income attributable to domestic production activities. The regulations will affect taxpayers engaged in certain domestic production activities. The text of the temporary regulations also serves as the text of the proposed regulations set forth in the notice of proposed rulemaking on this subject in the Proposed Rules section in this issue of the Federal Register.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury is issuing this final rule, ‘‘Economic Sanctions Enforcement Guidelines,’’ as enforcement guidance for persons subject to the requirements of U.S. sanctions statutes, Executive orders, and regulations. This rule was published as an interim final rule with request for comments on September 8, 2008. This final rule sets forth the Enforcement Guidelines that OFAC will follow in determining an appropriate enforcement response to apparent violations of U.S. economic sanctions programs that OFAC enforces. These Enforcement Guidelines are published as an Appendix to the Reporting, Procedures and Penalties Regulations.

Effective Date:This rule is effective November 9, 2009