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Cozen O'Connor

Forming a Partnership/LLC: A Checklist for Avoiding Pitfalls

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Forming a partnership1 without triggering income appears straightforward and simple. In many cases, it is. In other cases, though, forming a partnership can cause one or more partners to unintentionally recognize income. This...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

Gifts of Private Company Interests to Charity Prior to Sale

A planning technique that is known to most tax professionals is for an owner of a private company to gift an interest therein to charity prior to a sale. This technique is only of interest to taxpayers who are charitably...more

Hinckley Allen

Converting an LLC to an S Corporation: A Mistake Waiting to Happen

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Limited liability companies (LLCs) offer significant tax flexibility – for one thing they can elect to be treated as disregarded entities, partnerships, C corporations, or S corporations, and can even shift between those tax...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

IRS Takes Partnership Entity-Level View on FIRPTA’s Publicly Traded Stock Exception

The IRS has finally taken a view on the exception to FIRPTA (the Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act) for publicly traded stock of a United States real property holding corporation (a “USRPHC”) that is held by a...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

S Corps with Real Property: Separating Shareholders & Partnership Envy

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Tax Alchemy? How many of you remember Section 138509 of the Ways and Means Committee’s markup last September of what would have been the Build Back Better Act? (A moment of silence, please.) Allow me to jog your memory....more

Jones Day

Warning: U.S. Tax Regulations Impact Completed Foreign Sales Retroactively and Domestic Partnerships

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The Situation: On June 14, 2019, the IRS and U.S. Treasury released more than 500 pages of proposed, temporary, and final regulations addressing the taxation of U.S.-controlled foreign corporations. The Development:...more

Fenwick & West LLP

The New Foreign Tax Credit Proposed Regulations – An Executive Summary

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Released on November 30, 2018, the foreign tax credit proposed regulations provide a comprehensive new framework for calculating the foreign tax credit in light of several changes made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA or...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Impact of Tax Reform on the Purchase and Sale of Controlled Foreign Corporations — Selected Considerations

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The application of §1248 and §338(g) in the context of the purchase or sale of a controlled foreign corporation (CFC) has long been one of the most complex areas of the tax code. The recently enacted tax reform act — herein,...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

IRS Releases New Regulations Regarding Dividend Equivalents

On January 19, 2017, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued final, temporary, and proposed regulations (the “Regulations”) under section 871(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). Code...more

Troutman Pepper

Tax Developments in 2016: Federal Tax (Part I) - Sections 355, 382, and 385; and new rules on partnership audits dominate...

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Section 385 Proposed Regulations — Impact on Related-Party Financing - Section 385 has been in the Internal Revenue Code since 1969. It was enacted to provide guidance for whether to classify an interest in a corporation...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Application of New Debt-Equity Regulations to Securitizations

On October 13, 2016, Treasury and the IRS issued new final and temporary “anti-inversion” regulations under section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code that could treat certain purchasers of notes issued by securitizations as...more

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