Check out our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for November 7, 2025 – November 24, 2025.
November 10, 2025: The IRS released Internal Revenue Bulletin No. 2025-46, which includes proposed regulations 109742-25. The proposed regulations would remove a rule in previous final regulations that uses the shareholders of certain domestic corporations to determine whether foreign persons hold – directly or indirectly – stock in a domestically controlled qualified investment entity (QIE). If a QIE was not domestically controlled following the changes from the proposed regulations, stock owned by foreign persons in a QIE would qualify as a US real property interest.
November 10, 2025: The IRS released Revenue Procedure 2025-31, providing guidance on a safe harbor that allows trusts qualifying as investment trusts under Section 301.7701-4(c) and as grantor trusts to stake digital assets without losing their tax status and offering a limited period for existing trusts to amend their governing instruments to meet the safe harbor requirements.
November 13, 2025: The IRS released Notice 2025-67, which announces the annual cost-of-living adjustments to the limits on benefits and contributions for qualified retirement plans under Section 415 of the Internal Revenue Code (Code). These adjustments, required by Section 415(d), follow procedures similar to those used for Social Security benefit updates and apply to certain amounts under deferred compensation plans.
November 13, 2025: The IRS released Revenue Ruling 2025-22, announcing that interest rates will remain unchanged for the calendar quarter beginning January 1, 2026. The rates are as follows:
7% for individual overpayments and 6% for corporate overpayments
5% on the portion of a corporate overpayment exceeding $10,000
7% for underpayments and 9% for large corporate underpayments
Under the Code, these rates are recalculated quarterly based on the federal short-term rate. For noncorporate taxpayers, both overpayment and underpayment rates equal the federal short-term rate plus three percentage points. For corporations, the underpayment rate is also the short-term rate plus three points while the overpayment rate is the short-term rate plus two points. Large corporate underpayments add five points, and corporate overpayments exceeding $10,000 add 0.5 points. The current rates are based on the federal short-term rate determined in October 2025.
November 19, 2025: The IRS announced that it would resume its regular activities following the 2025 lapse in appropriations during the government shutdown. In its announcement, the IRS included specific frequently asked questions regarding the resumption of regular activities for audits, collections, and appeals and stated that determination letter applications for tax exempt and government entities would resume.
Recent court decisions
November 5, 2025: The US District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an opinion in Ryan, LLC v. IRS. Check out our recent insight on the case, including an analysis of the district court’s holdings and practice points for taxpayers.
November 12, 2025: The US Tax Court issued its opinion in Patel v. Commissioner. The case has been closely followed for the Tax Court’s analysis of the penalty imposed under Code § 6662(i) for undisclosed transactions lacking economic substance. Check out our recent insight on Patel, including an analysis of the Tax Court’s holdings and practice points for taxpayers.
The IRS also released its weekly list of written determinations (e.g., Private Letter Rulings, Technical Advice Memorandums, and Chief Counsel Advice).
Suzanne Golshanara, a law clerk in the Washington, DC, office, also contributed to this post.
