IRS Incorrectly Asking Trustees for Form 1041-A
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Beginning in
2007, Form 5227 was revised to include the Form 1041-A filing
requirement for split-interest trusts described in section
4947(a)(2). As such, beginning with 2007, charitable remainder trusts,
charitable lead trusts, and pooled income funds are no longer required
to file Form 1041-A.
Despite this change, the IRS has been issuing "Request for Your Tax Return" notices to some trusts for the Form 1041-A which do not have the filing requirement.
Based on informal discussions with the IRS, Bill Hranchak, CPA of Temo A. Arjani & Co., LLP, a Los Angeles-based accounting, charitable trust administration and software firm, learned the requests have been issued as a result of a programming error on their part which they are in the process of fixing. Hranchak also reports that some of these requests do not even indicate as to which tax year or form number it was related to. An IRS representative suggested that trusts which are only required to file the Form 5227 and have done so, should state this in their response to the request and also state that a Form 1041-A is not required to be filed.
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