GIFT TAX

Announcement 2015–23, page 311. The Federal Reserve will not accept checks that are larger than $99,999,999.00 and agencies have been directed to return these checks to the originator. Beginning January 1, 2016, IRS will begin returning checks for more than $99,999,999.00 to the originator.

Notice 2015–57, page 294. On July 31, 2015, the President of the United States signed H.R. 3236, Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act of 2015 (P.L. 114–41), into law. Section 2004 of H.R. 3236 enacted sections 1014(f) and 6035. For each statement required by section 6035 to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) or furnished to a beneficiary before February 29, 2016, this notice delays until February 29, 2016, the due date for filing or furnishing that statement. This notice applies to executors of estates of decedents and to other persons who are required under section 6018(a) or (b) to file a return if that return is filed after July 31, 2015. This notice is effective as of August 21, 2015.