The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 21 - Conservation Easement Donations: Tax Shelter or Charitable Contribution Deduction?
Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with IRS Appeals: When Exam Attends the Appeals Conference
Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with the IRS: Going to Court
Jones Day Presents: Strategies for Dealing with the IRS: The IRS Appeals Office
Recently, in Rawat v. Commissioner, the D.C. Circuit reversed the Tax Court decision and held that a foreign partner would not be subject to U.S. tax on selling an interest in a partnership with “hot assets” subject to §...more
On July 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit reversed the U.S. Tax Court in holding that inventory gain recognized by a nonresident alien individual partner on the sale of her interest in a U.S....more
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
The Tax Court recently ruled that a new partnership (“New Shoals”) that is deemed to form on a technical termination may use a taxable year that starts on the date of the termination of the old partnership (“Old Shoals”),...more
Assume that X and Y agree to the following: X will transfer ownership of Prop to Y, and Y will transfer cash to X. What just happened? Obviously, X has sold Prop to Y. If the amount of cash that X receives is greater than...more
In Soroban Capital Partners v. Commissioner, the United States Tax Court determined that entities formed as state law limited partnerships did not necessarily mean that the limited partnerships’ limited partners were limited...more
In holding that that Treas. Reg. § 1.170A-14(g)(6)(ii) (Proceeds Regulation) is procedurally invalid under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), the U.S. Tax Court abandoned its precedent in Oakbrook Land Holdings, LLC v....more
In Soroban Capital Partners, LP v. Commissioner, the U.S. Tax Court determined that the exception to net earnings from self-employment in Section 1402(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”) ...more
The U.S. Tax Court recently issued a precedential opinion in Soroban Capital v. Commissioner, holding that the limited partner exception to the Self-Employed Contributions Act (SECA) in Section 1402(a)(13) of the Internal...more
Section 1402(a)(13) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the distributive share of “limited partners, as such” from a partnership is not subject to self-employment tax.[1] Managers of private equity and hedge funds are...more
Certain limited partners in venture capital and private equity will likely see an increase in their tax liability due to a recent U.S. Tax Court decision. Generally, partners in a partnership and members in a limited...more
Summary - On November 28, the Tax Court, granting the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) summary judgment, held in Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner that a state law limited partner who is limited in name only, is...more
Losses Weren’t Always Bad- Most tax advisers are aware that, prior to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (the “TRA”),[i] the Code placed few limitations on the ability of an individual taxpayer to use deductions from a particular...more
A recent US Tax Court case upholds profits interest treatment for a taxpayer’s receipt of a partnership interest granted in exchange for services. The case highlights how properly structuring and documenting the grant of a...more
Thirty years after the IRS first acknowledged that taxpayers could receive profits interests for services without immediate tax, the Tax Court has confirmed our long-held belief that the same protection is available for a...more
At war with Russia in eastern Europe, a nascent competing world order, mass shootings and bank failures at home, questionable audit practices by the Big 4 . . . everywhere, debt ceilings and the risk of default, inflation,...more
Private equity, hedge fund, and other investment fund sponsors should be aware that there continue to be significant developments in the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS’s) audit campaign with respect to the potential...more
Have you ever wondered whether you were barking up the wrong tree? That the solution to a problem may be found, not in the approach to which you were already committed and invested, but in an altogether different direction?...more
On November 9, 2022, in a 15-2 decision, the Tax Court held that the IRS improperly issued Notice 2017-10 in Green Valley Investors, LLC, et al. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 159 T.C. No. 5. The Notice designated...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of August 22nd, 2022, through August 26th, 2022 Warner Enterprises, Inc. v. Comm’r, T.C. Memo. 2022-85 | August 22, 2022 | Buch, J. | Dkt. No. 17163-19L. ...more
Tax Litigation: The Week of August 22nd, 2022, through August 26th, 2022 Alexander C. Deitch v. Comm’r, No. 21282-17; and Jonathan D. Barry and Susan S. Barry v. Comm’r, No. 21283-17, T.C. Memo 2022-86 | August 25, 2022 |...more
When is a loan not a loan? When it’s something else – for example, equity. This is one of those pesky facts and circumstances issues that plague courts, taxpayers, and tax advisers to no end. Debt- On one end of the...more
“Would I ever leave this company? Look, I’m all about loyalty. In fact, I feel like part of what I’m being paid for here is my loyalty. But if there were somewhere else that valued loyalty more highly, I’m going wherever they...more
Capital Loss- If the amount realized by a taxpayer upon the sale of a partnership interest to a third party is insufficient to restore to the taxpayer their adjusted basis for the interest – i.e., their unrecovered...more
In recent months, the IRS has continued its attack on syndicated conservation easement transactions. Many syndicated partnerships are now under IRS audit or have cases pending before the US Tax Court. Moreover, the IRS has...more