The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be closed on the following holidays in 2014. No CBRS records will be accepted, and no output will be produced, on the dates on this list.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be closed on the following holidays in 2016. No CBRS records will be accepted, and no output will be produced, on the dates on this list.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be closed on the following holidays in 2017. No CBRS records will be accepted, and no output will be produced, on the dates on this list.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be enhancing the Tax Lot Input Record layout to add consistency so that all the fixed income asset categories are addressed on the applicable fields

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be making changes to align with the recently published Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revised regulations applicable to covered fixed income and options.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) is scheduled to migrate the changes to align with the published Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revised regulations, (published in March 2015), applicable to covered fixed income and options.

DTCC’s modifications of the file layouts for the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) to further support the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) changes that include fixed income and options as covered assets effective January 1, 2015, are being released in two deployments.

As previously announced in DTCC Solutions Important Notice, # CBRS002.2015, dated April 16, 2015; the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) will be making changes to align with the recently published Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revised regulations applicable to covered fixed income and options.

DTCC plans to enhance the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS), to further support the transfer of cost basis data.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) is preparing deployment of CBRS Phase 6 to support the changes on the Tax Lot Input Record to further support the transfer of cost basis.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) is preparing participant testing to support the changes on the Tax Lot Input Record to further support the transfer of cost basis.

DTCC plans to enhance the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) to make improvements to the system based on feedback from the CBRS Steering Committee, broker dealers and sponsors of Alternative Investments.

The Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) is preparing to make changes to align with the recently published Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revised regulations, (published in March 2015), applicable to covered fixed income and options.

The Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and DTCC Solutions LLC will be updating the Participant Services Environment (PSE) web portal applications. To enforce security best practices the PSE portal URL will be updated to https://portalu.dtcc.com. 

Participant testing of input and output for the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) changes to support options will be available beginning on May 2, 2014, in the Participant Services Environment (PSE) for CBRS.

DTCC plans to change the record layouts for the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS), to further support the transfer of cost basis data for fixed income and option assets.

This Notice replaces # CBRS002.14, which included changes to the Cost Basis User Master File for June 2014. Changes to the Cost Basis User Master File have been rescheduled to the November 2014 deployment.

DTCC’s has made modifications to the file layouts for the Cost Basis Reporting Service (CBRS) to further support the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) changes that include fixed income and options as covered assets effective January 1, 2015.