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SegRateARPA

SegRateARPA returns the Post-ARP/IIJA adjusted 24-month average segment rate under § 430(h)(2), for a given month and year. These rates are published monthly at the IRS web site.

Syntax

SegRateARPA (Year, Month, SegRateNum, [ForPlanYearBeg])

Parameter Name

Description

Year

Year or date (not before September 2019). Instead of a year, you may provide a date as m/d/year, in which case Month will be ignored.

Month

Month (not before September 2019). Ignored if Year is provided as a date.

SegRateNum

Defines which rate to return.

Option

Description

1

Returns the 1st segment rate.

2

Returns the 2nd segment rate.

3

Returns the 3rd segment rate.

“all”

Returns all three rates in a “/” delimited text string for the given month/year. This can be used as the interest rate parameter for various present value functions.

For example, for November 2024, the function returns “5.03/5.28/5.59”.

This is the same as the SegRateTextARPA function.

“long”

Returns a text string description of the segment rates for the given month/year.

For example, for November 2024, the function returns “Post-ARP/IIJA adjusted 24-month average segment rates, for November 2024, for plan years beginning in 2024: 5.03%, 5.28%, 5.59%”.

This is the same as the SegRateTextLongARPA function.

 

ForPlanYearBeg

Cannot be before 2020.
Optional, if omitted then the value provided for Year will be used by default.