Qualified Disaster Treatment for Japan
The guidance allows recipients of qualified disaster relief payments to exclude those payments from income on their tax returns. Also, the guidance allows employer-sponsored private foundations to assist employee victims in areas affected.
Chile Earthquake Designated as a Qualified Disaster
Qualified disasters include Presidentially declared disasters and any other event that the Secretary of the Treasury determines to be of a catastrophic nature. The IRS has determined that the earthquake that occurred in Chile in February 2010 is an event of a catastrophic nature for purposes of the federal tax law.
