2015-09712. Regulations Revising Rules Regarding Agency for a Consolidated Group; Correction

AGENCY:

Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

ACTION:

Final regulations; correction.

SUMMARY:

This document contains corrections to final regulations (TD 9715) that were published in the Federal Register on April 1, 2015 (80 FR 17314). The final regulations are regarding the agent for an affiliated group of corporations that files a consolidated return (consolidated group).

DATES:

This correction is effective on April 27, 2015 and applicable beginning April 1, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gerald Fleming at [phone] or Richard M. Heinecke at [phone] (not a toll free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The final regulations (TD 9715) that are the subject of this correction are under section 1502 of the Internal Revenue Code.

Need for Correction

As published, the final regulations (TD 9715) contain an error that may prove to be misleading and is in need of clarification.

Correction of Publication

Accordingly, the final regulations (TD 9715), that are the subject of FR Doc. 2015-07182, are corrected as follows:

1. On page 17316, in the preamble, the second column, under the paragraph heading “A. Designation on Commissioner's Own Accord”, the eighth line from the bottom of the paragraph, the language “where the agent either fails timely” is corrected to read “where the agent either fails to timely”.

Martin V. Franks,

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