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Internal Revenue Service Limited Liability Partnerships

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Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Limited Partners’ Tax Savings from Self-Employment Taxes are under Scrutiny

Hedge funds and private equity groups have long used the “limited partner exception” to minimize self-employment taxes, but on March 13, 2018, the IRS announced that it was going to increase its scrutiny on taxpayers...more

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

Tax Court Hampers Funds’ Ability To Exclude Income of Non-Passive Limited Partners From Self-Employment Net Earnings

In Soroban Capital Partners LP v. Commissioner, the Tax Court held that the statutory exclusion from the imposition of self-employment tax does not automatically apply with respect to the distributive share allocable to...more

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Bracewell Tax Report - January 2019

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The Bracewell Tax Report is a periodic publication focused on developments in federal income tax law, including the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, with emphasis on how such developments impact the energy, technology...more

Foster Garvey PC

Decoding the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act – Part III: IRC § 708 and the Partnership Termination Rules Have Changed

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BACKGROUND/PRIOR LAW - PartnershipUnder IRC § 708(a), a partnership is considered as a continuing entity for income tax purposes unless it is terminated. Given the proliferation of state law entities taxed as partnerships...more

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IRS Announces Proposed Partnership Audit Regulations Which Impact Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has released Proposed Regulations under Section 1101 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), which provide that for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, all entities taxable as...more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Wealth Management Update - December 2016

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December Interest Rates for GRATs, Sales to Defective Grantor Trusts, Intra-Family Loans and Split Interest Charitable Trusts - The December § 7520 rate for use with estate planning techniques such as CRTs, CLTs, QPRTs...more

Burr & Forman

It's Time For Your Buy-Sell Checkup!

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Shareholders, Partners and/or LLC members of any closely-held or family-held company should check the buy-sell formula contained in their Shareholder Agreement (sometimes called a Buy-Sell Agreement), Partnership Agreement or...more

Perkins Coie

Federally Proposed Rules to Increase Tax Cost of Family-Entity Transfers

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The federal government proposed sweeping new tax rules earlier this month that would dramatically affect family businesses, investment partnerships and other entities.  These rules, which have been widely reported, would...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

IRS Issues Guidance to Partnerships Opting-In to New Partnership Audit Regime

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued temporary regulations on August 4, 2016, providing the time, form and manner for partnerships to elect to apply the new partnership audit regime enacted by the Bipartisan Budget Act...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

IRS Proposes Regulations That Would Eliminate Most Valuation Discounts for Transfers of Interests in Family Entities

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released regulations on August 2, 2016 that would limit the use of discounts when valuing interests in family entities for estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer tax purposes. If...more

Troutman Pepper

Partnership Contributions that Trigger Gain? The IRS Says 'Yes' - Tax Update Volume 2016, Issue 1

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The new regulations will have a direct impact on the formation of partnerships in the international context. For most of the past decade, contributions to partnerships (including LLCs taxed as partnerships) have been...more

Lowndes

IRS Going After Bad Boy Guarantees?

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Under the Section 752 regulations, partnership liabilities (including liabilities of LLCs that are taxed as partnerships) are allocated among the partners based on who bears the economic risk of loss. If no partner is...more

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