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Treasury Department and IRS Target Partnership Basis-Shifting Transactions

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On June 17, 2024, the Treasury Department launched “a new regulatory initiative to close a major tax loophole exploited by large, complex partnerships.”[1] The loophole: partnership basis-shifting transactions....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Treasury and IRS release final regulations on elective payment election under CHIPS Act Section 48D

On March 5, 2024, the Department of Treasury (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations (Final Regulations) on the elective payment election of the advanced manufacturing investment credit...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Treasury Holds Fast on Centralized Partnership Audits

On December 8, Treasury issued final regulations (the “Final Regulations”) updating the existing centralized partnership audit regime. These regulations largely adopt the provisions of regulations that were previously...more

Foster Garvey PC

A Narrow Aspect of the Check-the-Box Regulations that Deserves Some Press – Changing an Entity’s Tax Classification From That of a...

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More than two decades ago, the Service announced its intention to consider simplifying the entity classification rules in Notice 95-14. It stated: “The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are considering...more

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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

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Weekly IRS Roundup September 30 – October 4, 2019

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of September 30 – October 4, 2019. September 30, 2019: The IRS published a draft of the tax year...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Partners Must Pay Self-Employment Tax on Partnership Income—Even From a 'Disregarded Entity'

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The IRS has published Final Regulations finalizing its prior guidance that partners in a partnership must pay self-employment tax on their partnership income, even if they work for an entity owned entirely by the partnership...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

A new life for leveraged partnership structures; Treasury and the IRS issue proposed regulations under the disguised sale rules

On June 19, 2018, Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) published proposed regulations (REG-131186-17) (2018 Proposed Regulations) concerning the manner in which partnership liabilities are allocated among the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Tax Benefit from Leveraged Partnerships Shut Down By New IRS Regulations

On October 5, 2016, the IRS and Treasury released a package of new regulations under Code sections 707 and 752 designed to curtail the use of debt to reduce tax on the contribution of appreciated assets to leveraged...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

Morgan Lewis

New Legislation Makes Sweeping Changes Impacting All Partnerships

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All partnerships will be audited at the entity level unless they have 100 or fewer partners AND no partnerships as direct partners. The two-year budget plan passed by Congress on October 30, 2015, and expected to be...more

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