The Opportunity Zones Working Group (OZWG) today submitted a request to the Department of the Treasury, seeking relief from certain provisions concerning the opportunity zones (OZ) incentive due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency last week made public 28 Community Reinvestment Act performance evaluations from March. Twenty-two evaluations were satisfactory and six were outstanding. The evaluations were for national banks, federal savings associations and insured federal branches of foreign banks.

The Internal Revenue Service will publish a notice in Monday’s Federal Register containing clarifications to Treasury Decision 9889, the final regulations concerning opportunity zones. The corrections cover a variety of issues set forth in TD 9889. There are 24 pages of corrections, all related to Internal Revenue Code Section 1400Z-2.