2012-17545. Reporting and Notice Requirements for Deferred Vested Benefits Under Section 6057; Correction

AGENCY:

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

ACTION:

Correction to notice of proposed rulemaking.

SUMMARY:

This document corrects a notice of proposed rulemaking (REG-153627-08) that was published in the Federal Register on Thursday, June 21, 2012 (77 FR 37352), that would provide guidance relating to automatic extensions of time for filing certain employee plan returns by adding the Form 8955-SSA, “Annual Registration Statement Identifying Separated Participants With Deferred Vested Benefits,” to the list of forms that are covered by the Income Tax Regulations on automatic extensions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Gibbs, Sarah Bolen, or Pamela Kinard, [phone] (not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The notice of proposed rulemaking (REG-153627-08) that is the subject of this correction is under section 6057 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Need for Correction

As published, REG-153627-08 contains an error that may prove to be misleading and is in need of clarification.

Correction of Publication

Accordingly, the publication of the notice of proposed rulemaking (REG-153627-08) that was the subject of FR. Doc. 2012-15068, is corrected as follows:

On page 37354, column 1, in the preamble, under the paragraph heading “Background”, line four of the column, the language “Employee Benefit Returns,”and file the” is corrected to read, “Employee Plan Returns,”and file the”.

LaNita Van Dyke,

Chief, Publications and Regulations Branch, Legal Processing Division, Associate Chief Counsel (Procedure and Administration).