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Gray Reed

Tax Court Finds that SECA Limited Partner Exception Requires ‘Functional Analysis Test’

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A recent U.S. Tax Court decision provides clarity to what the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) considers a limited partner for purposes of the ‘limited partner exception’ to the Self-Employment Contributions Act (“SECA”) tax...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Guidance on Limited Partnership Exception May Include a Functional Analysis Test

In September, Treasury announced forthcoming guidance that will clarify whether the limited partner exception applies to limited partners that actively participate in their businesses....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Self-Employment Tax and the Limited Partner – Substance Over Form, or Something Else?

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Last week, the IRS announced “the start of a sweeping, historic effort to restore fairness in tax compliance by shifting more attention onto high-income earners, partnerships, large corporations and promoters abusing the...more

Williams Mullen

Hoops, LP: Seventh Circuit Denies Deferred Compensation Deduction in Taxable Asset Sale - Upsetting Common Understanding of Timing...

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On August 9, 2023, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Hoops, LP and Heisley Member, Inc., Tax Matters Partner vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, affirmed the Tax Court’s 2022 decision denying a deduction to a plan...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Case May Bring Clarity on Self-Employment Tax on Limited Partners

Taxpayers are once again challenging the IRS’s position that a partner cannot wear two hats (i.e., service provider and investor) and still qualify as a limited partner for Self-Employment Contributions Act (“SECA”) purposes....more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Tax Court’s Decision On Assumption of Liability in M&A – A Clean Block or Goaltending?

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Assumed Liabilities- If a taxpayer were to sell the assets that comprise the taxpayer’s business, they would realize gain if the amount realized by the taxpayer from the sale is more than the taxpayer’s adjusted basis for...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Secondary U.S. Withholding for Transfers in Private Investment Funds Delayed Until January 1, 2023

Key Points - Fund-level liability for a buyer’s failure to withhold upon secondary market transfer of an LP interest in a fund with ECI assets will apply only for transfers on or after January 1, 2023. Certain...more

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLC

LLC Operating Agreements And Partnership Agreements Should Be Amended To Address New Law

If you signed an LLC operating or partnership agreement prior to January 1, 2018, it may need to be amended to accommodate a significant new rule regarding taxation of partnerships. Effective for tax years beginning after...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

Tax Reform – I.R.S. Updates Withholding Tax Guidance on Sales of Partnership Interests

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On April 2, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released Notice 2018-29 (the “Notice”), announcing the intention of the IRS and the Department of the Treasury to issue regulations regarding the withholding requirements...more

Troutman Pepper

Foreign Partners Victims of Tax Reform - Tax Update, Volume 2018, Issue 1

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More than 25 years after the IRS announced its position that foreign partners were subject to tax on the gain from the sale of the partnership interests, the Tax Court decided in favor of taxpayers. ...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Self-Employment Tax, LLCs, & The “Limited Partner” Exclusion

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In general, self-employed individuals are subject to employment taxes on their net earnings. The wages paid to individuals who are non-owner-employees of a business are also subject to employment taxes, regardless of how...more

Snell & Wilmer

Canadians Who Invested in U.S. LLPs and LLLPs Need to Rethink Their Choice of Entity

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Historically, Canadian investors in U.S. partnerships benefitted from an extremely efficient income tax structure – i.e., a single level of tax, credit against Canadian taxes for taxes paid in the U.S., and an ability to...more

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

The End of (New) Limited Partnerships in Pennsylvania?

On December 31, 2015, after a 15-year phase-out (originally intended to last only nine years), Pennsylvania's 171 year-old capital stock tax finally expired....more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

MoFo Tax Talk - Volume 8, No. 3

Final and Temporary Dividend Equivalent Regulations Issued – Some Good, Some Bad, And Some Ugly: On September 17, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released final and temporary regulations under Section 871(m),...more

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