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Part III - Administrative, Procedural, and Miscellaneous

Information Reporting Requirements Relating to Transfers of Securities

Notice 2010-67

PURPOSE
This notice provides transitional relief from the information reporting requirements
in section 6045A of the Internal Revenue Code (“Code”) that apply beginning in 2011 to
transfers of securities by brokers and other custodians. The notice provides that, solely
for transfers of stock in 2011 described in the notice, the Internal Revenue Service will
not assert penalties for failure to furnish a transfer statement under section 6045A and
that the transferred stock may be treated as a noncovered security upon its subsequent
sale or transfer.
BACKGROUND
Section 403 of the Energy Improvement and Extension Act of 2008, Div. B of
Pub. L. No. 110-343, 122 Stat. 3765, enacted on October 3, 2008, added sections
6045(g), 6045A, and 6045B to the Code. Section 6045(g) provides that, in the case of a
covered security, every broker required to report the gross proceeds from the sale of the

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security under section 6045(a) must also report the customer’s adjusted basis in the
security and whether any gain or loss with respect to the security is long-term or short-
term. The reporting is generally done on Form 1099-B, “Proceeds from Broker and
Barter Exchange Transactions.” A covered security includes all stock acquired
beginning in 2011 except stock in a regulated investment company for which the
average basis method is available and stock acquired in connection with a dividend
reinvestment plan, both of which are covered securities if acquired beginning in 2012. A
noncovered security is any security that is not a covered security.
To enable brokers to meet the requirements of section 6045(g) for securities
transferred between accounts, section 6045A provides that, beginning in 2011, a broker
and any other person specified in Treasury Regulations that transfers custody of a
covered security to a receiving broker must furnish to the receiving broker a written
statement that allows the receiving broker to satisfy the basis reporting requirements of
section 6045(g). Except as provided by the Secretary, the statement must be furnished
to the receiving broker within fifteen days after the date of the transfer. A covered
security remains a covered security if transferred, but only if the receiving broker
receives a transfer statement for the transfer.
To enable brokers to meet the requirements of section 6045(g) after an issuer of
stock takes an organizational action such as a stock split, merger, or acquisition that
affects basis, section 6045B provides that, beginning in 2011, an issuer must report to
the Service and to each stockholder or nominee a description of any such action and

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the quantitative effect of that action on basis. This requirement does not apply until
2012 to regulated investment companies.
On December 17, 2009, the Treasury Department and the Service published a
notice of proposed rulemaking and notice of public hearing (REG-101896-09), 2010-5
I.R.B. 347 (74 FR 67010), on the information reporting requirements under sections
6045(g), 6045A, and 6045B. Many commenters on the proposed regulations stated that
brokers and other custodians may have insufficient time to make programming changes
necessary to comply in 2011 with final regulations. Commenters requested relief in
2011 from the transfer statement requirement under section 6045A in order to allow
industry to focus initially on building the core systems for reporting the sale of covered
securities under section 6045(g) beginning in 2011. However, commenters stated that
existing systems could accommodate reporting for any transfer of stock that is incidental
to the stock’s purchase or sale using a cash-on-delivery account or multiple broker
arrangement. See Treas. Reg. §1.6045-1(c)(3)(iii)-(iv).
TRANSITIONAL RELIEF FOR CERTAIN 2011 TRANSFERS
Section 6722 imposes a penalty on any transferor that fails to timely furnish a
correct transfer statement under section 6045A to the receiving broker. In order to
promote industry readiness to comply with the reporting requirements for the sale of
covered securities under section 6045(g) beginning in 2011, the Service will not assert
penalties under section 6722 for a failure to furnish a transfer statement under section
6045A for any transfer of stock in 2011 that is not incidental to the stock’s purchase or

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sale as described in Treas. Reg. §1.6045A-1(a)(1)(ii). Further, a receiving broker may
treat this stock as a noncovered security.
DRAFTING INFORMATION
The principal author of this notice is Stephen Schaeffer of the Office of Associate
Chief Counsel (Procedure & Administration). For further information regarding this
notice, please contact Stephen Schaeffer at (202) 622-4910 (not a toll-free call).