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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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

With IRS Partnership Audits Ramping Up, Will More States Enact the MTC Model Statute?

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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Impending Large Partnership Audits

In August, the Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation held an informative roundtable on the IRS’s new large partnership compliance or LPC program. One of the speakers, Maria Dolan with the IRS’s Large Business &...more

Gray Reed

Is Your Partnership IRS Audit Ready?

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The Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2015 and fundamentally changed the way partnerships are audited. Under the BBA, the IRS generally assesses and collects any understatement of...more

Foster Garvey PC

Get Ready – The Internal Revenue Service May Be Knocking on Partnership Doors Next Year

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On November 2, 2015, the Bipartisan Budget Act (“Act”) was signed into law by President Barack Obama. One of the many provisions of the Act significantly impacted: (i) the manner in which entities taxed as partnerships are...more

Freeman Law

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

McGlinchey Stafford

CARES Act Updates Tax Act’s Depreciation Period – Act Fast

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Before the enactment of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), qualified leasehold improvement property, qualified restaurant property, and qualified retail improvement property had a 15-year recovery period for depreciation...more

Morgan Lewis

IRS Releases Tax Return Amendment Relief for BBA Partnerships

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The Internal Revenue Service has released guidance allowing partnerships subject to amended return filing restrictions enacted under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 to amend 2018 and 2019 partnership returns, including in...more

Maynard Nexsen

Is Your Partnership Ready for the IRS's New Centralized Audit Regime?

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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

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

Bracewell LLP

Application of Partnership Audit Rules to Private Funds

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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

Jaburg Wilk

Partnership Audit Rules Have Changed Under New Tax Law

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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

Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A.

IRS Issues Final Regulations For Electing Out Of Centralized Partnership Audit Regime

The IRS has issued final regulations under IRC § 6221(b), implementing rules for electing out of the new centralized partnership audit regime enacted under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The final regulations under IRC §...more

Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC

New IRS Partnership Audit Rules Take Effect Jan 1: What You Need to Know

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

Dechert LLP

Newly Proposed Partnership Audit Rules Allow for Multiple-Tier “Push-Out” Election

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) have issued a new installment of proposed regulations under the centralized partnership audit regime included in the...more

Alston & Bird

Proposed Tax Regulations Address International Aspects of the New Partnership Audit Regime

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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

Epstein Becker & Green

Reminder: The New Partnership Audit Rules Are Effective for Tax Years Beginning January 1, 2018

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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

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Considerations for Asian Fund Managers under the U.S. New Partnership Audit Regime

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, as modified by the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015, resulted in a fundamental change in the way the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will conduct audits of collective...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

The New Partnership Audit & Collection Regime: Its Time Has Come

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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

Goodwin

What REITs Need to Know About the New Partnership Audit Rules

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The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 fundamentally changes the rules and procedures governing IRS audits of partnerships for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. These new rules are contained in new Sections...more

Dentons

A Summary of the Proposed Partnership Audit Regulations

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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

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

New Partnership Audit Regime Set to Take Effect in 2018, Proactive Planning Recommended

On November 2, 2015, Congress passed the new centralized partnership audit regime as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) which is set to take effect for the tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. The...more

Cole Schotz

Partnerships Prepare For New Audit Regime

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On November 2, 2015, new partnership audit rules, repealing existing TEFRA rules, were enacted in Section 1101 of the Bipartisan Budget Act (“BBA”). On August 15, 2016, Treasury published temporary regulations (TD 9780, 81...more

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IRS Issues Guidance To Examiners Handling BBA Partnership Audits

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As many readers know, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) repeals the long standing TEFRA procedures governing IRS examinations of partnerships. As a result, beginning January 1, 2018, partnerships are subject to a...more

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