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The IRS Is Targeting Partnership Transactions: Is Your Representative Ready?

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Earlier this week, Treasury and the IRS issued guidance to halt the use of partnership rules in the Internal Revenue Code to engage in abusive basis-shifting transactions whereby tax basis is stripped from certain assets and...more

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Tax Authorities of the World Unite? Not Quite, But the IRS Joins the Movement to Tax the Rich

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Earlier this year, the OECD observed there has been a significant increase in global wealth inequality over the last two decades. It also acknowledged that “taxation is a key instrument . . . that governments have at their...more

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The IRS is Shifting Audit Attention to Large Partnerships and Wealthy Individuals

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In 2009, the IRS created its Global High Wealth Industry Group, known more familiarly as the “Wealth Squad.” This group starts with an examination of a “key case,” which is typically a wealthy person’s individual tax return,...more

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The IRS Is Coming for Partnerships and High Net Wealth Individuals

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The Internal Revenue Service plans to deploy thousands of new hires to expand audits of partnerships and high net wealth individuals. As part of a larger transformation at the agency, it is using some of the $60 billion in...more

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IRS Moves to Target Wealthy Taxpayers in Historic Compliance Drive

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This month, the IRS announced that it is using the long-term funding approved by Congress through the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to shift its attention to wealthy taxpayers in an effort to “identify sophisticated schemes...more

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AFP: $80 Billion to Audit Businesses and Wealthy in Biden Plan

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On April 28, 2021, President Biden presented the “American Families Plan” (AFP), an ambitious spending program focused on providing family leave, child care and nutrition, health care, preschool and college education to...more

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IRS to Target High Net Worth Individuals, Private Foundations, and Associated Entities Beginning in July 2020

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to audit hundreds of high net worth individuals and their related entities starting this month. The campaign, announced at a conference by a top IRS division commissioner, will...more

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