IR-2026-116, Sept. 30, 2026 — The IRS announced today that due to the ongoing conflict in Israel, the agency is providing additional tax relief to affected individuals and businesses, postponing until Sept. 30, 2027, a wide range of deadlines for filing federal returns, making tax payments and performing other time-sensitive tax-related actions.
Congress has passed some major simplifying reforms in recent years, but the tax code has still grown more complex over the past few decades. New carveouts, savings vehicles, and targeted tax increases would complicate it further.
Americans will spend 6.9 billion hours complying with IRS tax filing and reporting requirements in 2026, costing about $387 billion in lost productivity. Including an additional $157 billion in out-of-pocket costs, complying with the federal tax code will cost Americans more than $544 billion this year, over 1.7 percent of GDP.
This document contains proposed regulations related to the allocation and apportionment of deductions to foreign source section 951A category income for foreign tax credit limitation purposes and for purposes of calculating deduction eligible income. The proposed regulations would affect taxpayers that operate in foreign countries through foreign corporations and domestic corporations that claim the deduction for foreign-derived deduction eligible income.