# 2025-22146: Goodbye DTax: Wall Street's Mysterious Tax Service Gets Axed

2025-22146, Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Depository Trust Company; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Decommission the DTax Service, is a Federal Register notice from Securities and Exchange Commission published 2025-12-08, effective 2025-12-04 (as of 2026-06-08).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-22146
- Title: Self-Regulatory Organizations; The Depository Trust Company; Notice of Filing and Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed Rule Change To Decommission the DTax Service
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Securities and Exchange Commission
- Citation: 90 FR 56822
- Published: 2025-12-08
- Effective: 2025-12-04
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Goodbye DTax: Wall Street's Mysterious Tax Service Gets Axed

## Summary

The Depository Trust Company (DTC) is shutting down its DTax service, which helps with domestic tax reporting. This change affects DTC users who access DTax through their systems, and it means the service will no longer be available starting now. There’s no impact on fees, but references to DTax will be removed from official guides to keep things clear and up to date.

## Effects PRIA read

- DTax Service Decommissioned Dec 4, 2025: cost, low. DTCC Solutions will decommission the DTax service effective December 4, 2025. The service, which was accessible to Participants via DTC's PTS and PBS inquiry functions, will no longer be available after that date; affected clients were notified and DTCC Solutions will support DTax until the Decommi…
- DTC Guides Updated to Remove DTax References: benefit, low. DTC will amend its Distributions Guide and the glossary of the Fee Guide to remove all references and the DTax definition on December 4, 2025. These edits align DTC's published Guides with DTCC Solutions' retirement of DTax so the Guides reflect the current PTS and PBS service functions.

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## Sources
- [2025-22146 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/08/2025-22146/self-regulatory-organizations-the-depository-trust-company-notice-of-filing-and-immediate)
- [2025-22146 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-08/pdf/2025-22146.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-22146 (as of 2026-06-08).