[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 84 (Tuesday, May 1, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25785-25787]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-10475]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service


Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury, as part of its continuing 
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general 
public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment 
on proposed and/or continuing information collections, as required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 
3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments should be received on or before July 2, 2012 to 
be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments to Yvette B. Lawrence, Internal 
Revenue Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 
DC 20224.
    Please send separate comments for each specific information 
collection listed below. You must reference the information 
collection's title, form number, reporting or record-keeping 
requirement number, and OMB number (if any) in your comment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To obtain additional information, or 
copies of the information collection and instructions, or copies of any 
comments received, contact Elaine Christophe, at (202) 622-3179, or at 
Internal Revenue Service, Room 6129, 1111 Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20224, or through the Internet, at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

    The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service, as 
part of their continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent 
burden, invite the general public and other Federal agencies to take 
this opportunity to comment on the proposed or continuing information 
collections listed below in this notice, as required by the Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995, (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
    Request for Comments: Comments submitted in response to this notice 
will be summarized and/or included in our request for Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the relevant information 
collection. All comments will become a matter of public record. Please 
do not include any confidential or inappropriate material in your 
comments.
    We invite comments on: (a) Whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the proper performance of the agency's functions, 
including whether the information has practical utility; (b) the 
accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the collection of 
information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of 
the information to be collected; (d) ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology; and (e) estimates of capital or start-up costs and costs of 
operation, maintenance, and purchase of services to provide the 
requested information.

Information Collections Open for Comment

    Currently, the IRS is seeking comments concerning the following 
forms, and reporting and recordkeeping requirements:
    Title: Notice of Election of and Agreement To Special Lien Under 
Internal Revenue Code Section 6324A and Regulations.
    OMB Number: 1545-2109.
    Form Number: Form 13925.
    Abstract: Under IRC section 6166, an estate may elect to pay the 
estate tax in installments over 14 years if certain conditions are met. 
If the IRS determines that the government's interest in collecting 
estate tax is sufficiently at risk, it may require the estate provide a 
bond. Alternatively, the executor may elect to provide a lien in lieu 
of bond. Under section 6324A(c) and the regulations there under (OMB 
1545-0757), to make this election the executor must submit a lien 
agreement to the IRS. Form 13925 is a form lien agreement that 
executors may use for this purpose.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the form at 
this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 500.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 hr.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 500.

    Title: Carbon Dioxide Sequestration Credit.
    OMB Number: 1545-2132.
    Form Number: Form 8933.
    Abstract: Generally, the credit is allowed to the person that 
captures and physically or contractually ensures the disposal of or the 
use as a tertiary

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injectant of the qualified carbon dioxide. The credit can be claimed on 
Form 8933 for qualified carbon dioxide captured after October 3, 2008, 
and before the end of the calendar year in which the Secretary, in 
consultation with the Administrator of the EPA, certifies that 
75,000,000 metric tons of qualified dioxide have been captured and 
disposed of or used as a tertiary injectant. Authorized under I.R.C. 
section 45Q.
    Current Actions: There is no change in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB. This form is being submitted for renewal 
purposes only.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit organizations, 
individuals or households, and farms.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 100.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 hours, 9 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 215.
    Title: Material Advisor Disclosure Statement.
    OMB Number: 1545-0865.
    Form Number: 8918.
    Abstract: The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, Public Law 108-
357, 118 Stat. 1418, (AJCA) was enacted on October 22, 2004. Section 
815 of the AJCA amended section 6111 to require each material advisor 
with respect to any reportable transaction to make a return (in such 
form as the Secretary may prescribe) setting forth: (1) Information 
identifying and describing the transaction; (2) information describing 
any potential tax benefits expected to result from the transaction; and 
(3) such other information as the Secretary may prescribe.
    Current Actions: There is no change to this existing regulation.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for profit organizations.
    Estimated Responses: 350.
    Estimated Total Burden Hours: 3,959 hours.

    Title: Consolidated Returns-Stock Basis and Excess Loss Accounts, 
Earnings and Profits, Absorption of Deductions and Losses, Joining and 
Leaving Consolidated Groups, Worthless Stock Loss, Non-applicability of 
Section 357(c).
    OMB Number: 1545-1344.
    Regulation Project Number: CO-30-92 (TD 8560) (Final).
    Abstract: These regulations amend the consolidated return 
investment adjustment system, including the rules for earnings and 
profits and excess loss accounts. In addition, the regulations provide 
special rules for allocating consolidated income tax liability among 
members and modify the method for allocating income when a corporation 
enters or leaves a consolidated group.
    Current Actions: There is no change to the total burden of these 
final regulations.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 52,049.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 22 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 18,600.

    Title: Permitted Elimination of Preretirement Optional Forms of 
Benefit.
    OMB Number: 1545-1545.
    Regulation Project Number: REG-107644-97 (TD 8769) (Final).
    Abstract: This regulation permits an amendment of a qualified plan 
or other employee pension benefit plan that eliminates plan provisions 
for benefit distributions before retirement age but after age 70\1/2\. 
The regulation affects employers that maintain qualified plans and 
other employee pension benefit plans, plan administrators of these 
plans and participants in these plans.
    Current Actions: There is no change to this existing regulation.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations and 
not-for-profit institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 135,000.
    Estimated Average Time per Respondent: 22 min.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 48,800.

    Title: Waiver of Right to Consistent Agreement of Partnership Items 
and Partnership-Level Determinations as to Penalties, Additions to Tax, 
and Additional Amounts.
    OMB Number: 1545-1969.
    Form Number: 13751.
    Abstract: The information requested on Form 13751 (as required 
under Announcement 2005-80) will be used to determine the eligibility 
for participation in the settlement initiative of taxpayers related 
through TEFRA partnerships to ineligible applicants. Such 
determinations will involve partnership items and partnership-level 
determinations, as well as the calculation of tax liabilities resolved 
under this initiative, including penalties and interest.
    Current Actions: There are no changes being made to the form at 
this time.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households, business or other for-
profit organizations, not-for-profit institutions.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 100.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 60 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 100.

    Title: Credit for New Qualified Alternative Motor Vehicles 
(Advanced Lean Burn Technology Motor Vehicles and Qualified Hybrid 
Motor Vehicles).
    OMB Number: 1545-1988.
    Form Number: Notice 2006-9.
    Abstract: This notice sets forth a process that allows taxpayers 
who purchase passenger automobiles or light trucks to rely on the 
domestic manufacturer's (or, in the case of a foreign manufacturer, its 
domestic distributor's) certification that both a particular make, 
model and year of vehicle qualifies as an advanced lean burn technology 
motor vehicle under Section 30B(a)(2) and (c) of the Internal Revenue 
Code or a qualified hybrid motor vehicle under Section 30B(a)(3) and 
(d), and the amount of the credit allowable with respect to the 
vehicle. Current Actions: There is no change in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB. This form is being submitted for renewal 
purposes only.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other for-profit organizations, 
farms.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 7.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 40 hours.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 280.

    Title: Credit for Residential Energy Efficient Property.
    OMB Number: 1545-2134.
    Form Number: Notice 2009-41.
    Abstract: This notice sets forth interim guidance, pending the 
issuance of regulations, relating to the credit for residential energy 
efficient property under Sec.  25D of the Internal Revenue Code. 
Specifically, this notice provides procedures that manufacturers may 
follow to certify property as a qualified residential energy efficient 
property, as well as guidance regarding the conditions under which 
taxpayers seeking to claim the Sec.  25D credit may rely on a 
manufacturer's certification. The Internal Revenue Service (Service) 
and the Treasury Department expect that the regulations will 
incorporate the rules set forth in this notice.

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    Current Actions: There is no change in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB. This form is being submitted for renewal 
purposes only.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals, businesses and other for-profit 
organizations.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 140.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 2 Hours, 30 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 350.

    Title: Notice of Expatriation and Waiver of Treaty Benefits.
    OMB Number: 1545-2138.
    Form Number: Form W-8CE.
    Abstract: Information used by taxpayers to notify payer of 
expatriation so that proper tax treatments is applied by payer. The 
taxpayer is required to file this form to obtain any benefit accorded 
by the status.
    Current Actions: There is no change in the paperwork burden 
previously approved by OMB. This form is being submitted for renewal 
purposes only.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Affected Public: Individuals or households.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 500.
    Estimated Time per Respondent: 5 hours, 41 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,840.
    The following paragraph applies to all of the collections of 
information covered by this notice:
    An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required 
to respond to a collection of information, unless the collection of 
information displays a valid OMB control number.

    Approved: April 23, 2012.
Yvette B. Lawrence,
IRS Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-10475 Filed 4-30-12; 8:45 am]
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