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What should you do if you receive an IRS audit notification letter? Why should you consider engaging an experienced IRS audit and tax attorney who represents U.S. taxpayers facing an IRS audit or any other federal or state...more
El IRS se centra en las empresas desde la aprobación de la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación. Según el Plan Operativo Estratégico (financiado por la Ley de Reducción de la Inflación), el IRS está aumentando las tasas de...more
IRS is focused on Businesses since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Under the Strategic Operating Plan (funded by the Inflation Reduction Act), the IRS is increasing audit rates, expanding enforcement and targeting...more
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
New issues come into focus as the IRS focuses scrutiny on high-income taxpayers, partnerships and corporations, as well as those who promote the abuse of tax rules. The IRS has formally given notice that it intends to...more
Landmark changes in the federal income tax treatment of partnerships (including multi-member LLCs) became effective in 2018 for many more partnerships than first anticipated. As a result of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,...more
Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more
The new centralized audit regime for partnerships established by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) has been in effect since January 1, 2018, but is your partnership or LLC treated as a partnership for tax purposes...more
Beginning in 2018, partnerships (meaning an entity treated as a partnership for tax purposes) generally are subject to the new partnership audit rules. Partnerships may elect out of the new partnership audit rules if they (1)...more
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
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
Katten previously alerted our readers to the changes in partnership audit rules [See Katten Advisory, "New Partnership Audit Regime Set to Take Effect in 2018, Proactive Planning Recommended," August 7, 2017]. The Internal...more
On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which included a new federal audit regime for partnerships and entities classified as partnerships for federal income tax purposes (the...more
The Bracewell Tax Report is a periodic publication focused on developments in federal income tax law, including the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with emphasis on how such developments impact the energy, technology...more
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
Congress enacted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) under which existing partnership audit rules have been replaced. The new BBA audit rules are broad and complex and effective for partnership tax returns filed for tax...more
On January 1, 2018, the rules and procedures relating to IRS audits of partnerships, including those limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, (for purposes here, collectively, the “Partnerships”) will change. The...more
We are about to witness an almost unprecedented centralized partnership audit regime that takes full effect for taxable years starting on or after January 1, 2018, as adopted in late 2015 by Section 1101 of the Bipartisan...more
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
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”), enacted on November 2, 2015, provided for sweeping changes to the way partnerships are audited, including the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to levy U.S. federal...more
Beginning 2018, the IRS is authorized to collect from a partnership any tax deficiencies arising out of the partnership’s operations for a taxable year, even if the persons who were partners in the year to which the...more
This blog post is intended to identify the most material aspects of the proposed regulations the IRS has introduced to implement the BBA partnership audit rules, and provide guidance on what actions a partnership should...more
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
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In less than six months, on January 1, 2018, the new centralized partnership audit rules enacted by Congress as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) will go into effect. The new rules were drafted in response to...more