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Foodman CPAs & Advisors

IRS Use of AI Can Close Tax GAP

On 10/12/23, the IRS announced new tax gap projections for tax years 2020 and 2021 showing the projected gross tax gap increased to $688 billion in tax year 2021, a rise of more than $192 billion from the prior estimates for...more

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Centralized Partnership Audit Regime (CPAR) and a Trap for the Unwary

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Centralized Partnership Audit Regime (CPAR) is a somewhat new regime that followed TEFRA. Congress promulgated CPAR as part of the Bi-partisan Budget Act of 2015. For taxable years beginning in 2018, CPAR is the controlling...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

IRS Launches New Large Partnership Audits, Relying on AI and Increased Funding

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The IRS is making good on its promise to step up enforcement on large partnerships that issue more than 100 annual K-1s and have more than $100 million in assets. As noted in this Latham Client Alert, the IRS’s renewed focus...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Tax Court: IRS Must Adhere to BBA Regulations' Plain Language

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The U.S. Tax Court recently held in SN Worthington Holdings LLC v. Commissioner, 162 T.C. No. 10 (2024), that the petitioning partnership had properly elected into the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) procedures for the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

New IRS Unit Leverages AI to Step Up Partnership Audits; Hundreds of New Inquiries Expected

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The IRS’s simmering concern with pass-through entities is heating up, with IRA funds earmarked for increased personnel, AI, and other resources for partnership audits. ...more

Holland & Knight LLP

IRS Partnership Audits: 5 Must-Dos in 30 Days

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With the IRS laser-focused on enforcement, many partnerships will find themselves subject to their first IRS audits under the new procedurally complex partnership audit rules. Under these rules, the default is that the...more

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IRS Publishes Proposed BBA Regulations on Special Enforcement Matters

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Over 5 years ago, then President Obama ushered in sweeping changes to the method and manner in which partnerships are audited and partnership tax is assessed and collected through his signing of H.R. 1314, the Bipartisan...more

Poyner Spruill LLP

New Tax Audit Rules May Warrant Changes to LLC and Partnership Agreements

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Most partnerships and limited liability companies taxed as partnerships (collectively, "partnerships") are now in the middle of preparing their 2018 tax returns. They may notice a new line on their tax returns where they...more

Burr & Forman

Don’t Forget to Update Your Operating Agreement for Partnership Audit Rule Changes

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 enacted sweeping changes to the federal audit regime for entities taxed as partnerships. The new audit rules became effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. For tax...more

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

If One Musician Plays A Wrong Note, the Entire Orchestra Now May Pay the Price -- Be Aware of New Partnership Tax Audit Rules

In 1985, the “participatory journalist” George Plimpton worked as a temporary percussionist, playing sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum, and most notably, gong, with the New York Philharmonic. During a performance, he once...more

Pullman & Comley, LLC

Partnerships and Limited Liability Companies Take Note: Significant Changes in IRS Audit Procedures Take Effect January 1, 2018

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Under pre- 2018 rules, when a partnership (which for this Client Alert will include a limited liability company which is taxed as a partnership) was audited by the IRS, one of the partners acted as the “Tax Matters Partner”...more

Carlton Fields

New Partnership Audit Rules – Plan Ahead Before the Tax Bill Arrives

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A new set of rules for partnership audits (New Audit Rules), which generally take effect January 2018, fundamentally alter the manner in which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will conduct audits of partnerships,...more

Troutman Pepper

No Gifts in Proposed Partnership Audit Regulations

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New partnership audit and collection regime rules will soon go into effect, defining who can elect out and enabling the Internal Revenue Service to assess taxes directly against the partnerships it audits. Originally...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

New IRS Rules for Partnership Audits Require Immediate Review of Partnership Agreements

Beginning in 2018, most partnerships (including LLCs and other arrangements treated as partnerships for tax purposes) will be subject to a new “centralized partnership audit regime.” The volume of Internal Revenue Service...more

Butler Snow LLP

Partners Beware: New Audit Rules May Have a Big Impact on Your Bottom Line. Here’s What You Need to Know and How to Protect...

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The arcane rules surrounding partnership audits rarely, if ever, come up, and most people don’t even know that they exist. What once was a set of rules confined to the dark recesses of the Internal Revenue Code are now...more

Carlton Fields

Partnerships Must Respond to New Audit Rules

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The recently-enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 includes a far-reaching overhaul of the rules applicable to IRS partnership audits and tax adjustments. This will be significant for partnerships and limited liability...more

Smith Anderson

New Partnership Tax Audit Rules

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 establishes new rules (the “New Partnership Audit Rules”) for the conduct of federal income tax audits of partnerships and the assessment and collection of income taxes resulting from such...more

Lowndes

Five Things You Need to Know Now About the New Partnership Audit Rules

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Currently, most federal income tax audits of partnerships are governed by TEFRA, the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. In the simplest terms, TEFRA provides for a partnership audit to be conducted at the...more

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New IRS Audit Rules: Partnerships and LLCs Should Name A Partnership Representative For IRS Audits

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New legislation will govern IRS audits of partnerships and LLCs for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. The new rules will affect both existing LLCs and partnerships as well as new partnership and LLC agreements,...more

Baker Donelson

New Act Significantly Alters Partnership Audit Procedures

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The recently enacted Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 repeals the current Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA) and Electing Large Partnership (ELP) partnership audit regimes and replaces them with a new...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Partnership-Level Tax Under New Audit Rules

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, signed into law on November 2, 2015, has significantly changed the partnership tax audit rules, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Under the current partnership...more

Morgan Lewis

New Legislation Makes Sweeping Changes Impacting All Partnerships

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All partnerships will be audited at the entity level unless they have 100 or fewer partners AND no partnerships as direct partners. The two-year budget plan passed by Congress on October 30, 2015, and expected to be...more

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