98-4888. Submission to OMB for Review; Comment Request  

  • [Federal Register Volume 63, Number 38 (Thursday, February 26, 1998)]
    [Notices]
    [Pages 9899-9900]
    From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
    [FR Doc No: 98-4888]
    
    
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    DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
    
    
    Submission to OMB for Review; Comment Request
    
    February 19, 1998
        The Department of Treasury has submitted the following public 
    information collection requirement(s) to OMB for review and clearance 
    under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13. Copies of 
    the submission(s) may be obtained by calling the Treasury Bureau 
    Clearance Officer listed. Comments regarding this information 
    collection should be addressed to the OMB reviewer listed and to the 
    Treasury Department Clearance Officer, Department of the Treasury, room 
    2110, 1425 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20220.
    
    DATES: Written comments should be received on or before March 30, 1998 
    to be assured of consideration.
    
    INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (IRS)
    
        OMB Number: 1545-0007.
        Form Number: IRS Form T.
        Type of Review: Extension.
        Title: Forest Activities Schedules.
        Description: Form T is filed by individuals and corporations to 
    report income and deductions from the timber business. The IRS used 
    Form T to determine if the correct amount of income and deductions are 
    claimed.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
        Estimated Number of Respondents/Recordkeepers: 37,000.
        Estimated Burden Hours Per Respondent/Recordkeeper:
          Recordkeeping--37 hours, 4 minutes
          Learning about the law or the form--42 minutes
          Preparing and sending the form to the IRS--1 hour, 20 minutes
        Frequency of Response: Annually.
        Estimated Total Reporting/Recordkeeping Burden: 1,446,700 hours.
    
        OMB Number: 545-0045.
        Form Number: IRS Form 976.
        Type of Review: Extension.
        Title: Claim for Deficiency Dividends Deductions by a Personal 
    Holding Company, Regulated Investment Company, or Real Estate 
    Investment Trust.
    
        Description: Form 976 is filed by corporations that wish to claim 
    deficiency dividend deduction. The deduction allows the corporation to 
    eliminate all or a portion of a tax deficiency. The IRS uses Form 976 
    to determine if shareholders have include amounts in gross income.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
        Estimated Number of Respondents/Recordkeepers: 500.
        Estimated Burden Hours Per Respondent/Recordkeeper:
          Recordkeeping--5 hours, 44 minutes
          Learning about the law or the form--53 minutes
          Preparing, copying, assembling, and sending the form to the IRS--
    1 hour, 2 minutes
        Frequency of Response: On occasion.
        Estimated Total Reporting/Recordkeeping Burden: 3,830 hours.
    
        OMB Number: 1545-0117
        Form Number: IRS Form 1099-OID.
        Type of Review: Extension.
        Title: Original Issue Discount.
        Description: The form is used for reporting original issue discount 
    as required by section 6049 of the Internal Revenue Code. It is used to 
    verify that income earned on discount obligations is properly reported 
    by the recipient.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit.
        Estimated Number of Respondents/Recordkeepers: 9,185.
        Estimated Burden Hours Per Respondent/Recordkeeper: 10 minutes.
        Frequency of Response: Annually.
        Estimated Total Reporting/Recordkeeping Burden: 765,000 hours.
    
    
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        OMB Number: 1545-1161.
        Regulation Project Number: CO-8-90 Final.
        Type of Review: Extension.
        Title: Consolidated Return Regulations--Deferred Gain or Loss.
        Description: This regulation requires a statement to be attached to 
    a consolidated federal income tax return by those groups which entered 
    into certain intercompany transaction before the effective date of the 
    temporary regulation (March 15, 1990), and the treatment of these 
    transactions will be different than that of transactions entered into 
    after March 15, 1990.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit, Farms.
        Estimated Number of Respondents: 10.
        Frequency of Response: Other (one time only).
        Estimated Total Reporting Burden: 20 hours.
    
        OMB Number: 1545-1300.
        Regulation Project Number: FI-46-89 Final.
        Type of Review: Extension.
        Title: Treatment of Acquisition of Certain Financial Institutions: 
    Certain Tax Consequences of Federal Assistance to Financial 
    Institutions.
        Description: Recipients of Federal financial assistance (``FFA'') 
    must maintain an account of FFA that is deferred from inclusion in 
    gross income and subsequently recaptured. This information is used to 
    determine the recipient's tax liability. Also, tax not subject to 
    collection must be reported and information must be provided if certain 
    elections are made.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit, Federal Government.
        Estimated Number of Respondents/Recordkeepers: 500.
        Estimated Burden Hours Per Respondent/Recordkeeper: 4 hours, 24 
    minutes.
        Frequency of Response: On occasion.
        Estimated Total Reporting/Recordkeeping Burden: 2,200 hours.
    
        OMB Number: 1545-1569.
        Form Number: IRS Form 8861.
        Type of Review: Revision.
        Title: Welfare-to-Work Credit.
        Description: Section 51A of the Internal Revenue Code allows 
    employers an income tax credit of 35% of the first $10,000 of first-
    year wages paid to and 50% of the first $10,000 of second-year's wages 
    paid to long-term family assistance recipients. The credit is part of 
    the general business credit.
        Respondents: Business or other for-profit, Farms.
        Estimated Number of Respondents/Recordkeepers: 500.
        Estimated Burden Hours Per Respondent/Recordkeeper:
          Recordkeeping--7 hours, 39 minutes
          Learning about the law or the form--1 hour, 5 minutes
          Preparing and sending the form to the IRS--1 hour, 16 minutes
        Frequency of Response: Annually.
        Estimated Total Reporting/Recordkeeping Burden: 5,000 hours.
        Clearance Officer: Garrick Shear (202) 622-3869, Internal Revenue 
    Service, room 5571, 1111 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20224.
        OMB Reviewer: Alexander T. Hunt (202) 395-7860, Office of 
    Management and Budget, Room 10226, New Executive Office Building, 
    Washington, DC 20503.
    Lois K. Holland,
    Departmental Reports Management Officer
    [FR Doc. 98-4888 Filed 2-25-98; 8:45 am]
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Document Information

Published:
02/26/1998
Department:
Treasury Department
Entry Type:
Notice
Document Number:
98-4888
Dates:
Written comments should be received on or before March 30, 1998 to be assured of consideration.
Pages:
9899-9900 (2 pages)
PDF File:
98-4888.pdf