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Holland & Knight LLP

Tax Court: IRS Must Adhere to BBA Regulations' Plain Language

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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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

IRS Rolls Out Long-Planned Strategy Targeting Large Partnerships and High-Wealth Individual Taxpayers

On September 8, 2023, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Danny Werfel announced the rollout of a coordinated enforcement strategy that will involve audits of returns filed by 75 of the largest partnerships operating...more

Freeman Law

Tax Court in Brief | Deitch v. Comm’r; and Barry v. Comm’r | Deductible Interest Under IRC 163

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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

Freeman Law

Tax Court in Brief | Warner Enters., Inc. v. Comm’r | TEFRA and Partner’s Belated Objection to Penalty Determination

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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

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Impending Large Partnership Audits

In August, the Federal Bar Association Section on Taxation held an informative roundtable on the IRS’s new large partnership compliance or LPC program. One of the speakers, Maria Dolan with the IRS’s Large Business &...more

Maynard Nexsen

Is Your Partnership Ready for the IRS's New Centralized Audit Regime?

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The new centralized audit regime for partnerships established by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) has been in effect since January 1, 2018, but is your partnership or LLC treated as a partnership for tax purposes...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup January 13 – 17, 2020

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 13 – 17, 2020. January 13, 2020: The IRS published an information letter relating to the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

BBA Tax Audits: Final Deadline for Designating a U.S. Partnership Representative

• U.S. and non-U.S. investment funds that are required to file, or file, a U.S. partnership tax return (Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1065) are generally subject to a new U.S. partnership audit regime that permits the...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Time to Update Your Partnership Agreement: New Rules Address Partnership Representatives for IRS Audits

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Last week, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service issued final regulations concerning the designation and authority of a partnership representative under the centralized partnership audit regime...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Sweeping Changes to Partnership Audit Rules Warrant Changes to Existing Partnership and LLC Agreements

Sweeping changes to the rules governing federal income tax audits of partnerships went into effect this year. The new partnership audit rules (the “New Audit Rules”) apply for partnership tax returns for taxable years...more

Bracewell LLP

Application of Partnership Audit Rules to Private Funds

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On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, which included a new federal audit regime for partnerships and entities classified as partnerships for federal income tax purposes (the...more

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Bracewell Tax Report: April 2018 part 2

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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

Whitman Legal Solutions, LLC

If One Musician Plays A Wrong Note, the Entire Orchestra Now May Pay the Price -- Be Aware of New Partnership Tax Audit Rules

In 1985, the “participatory journalist” George Plimpton worked as a temporary percussionist, playing sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum, and most notably, gong, with the New York Philharmonic. During a performance, he once...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

How You May Be Affected by the Changes to Partnership Audit Rules

In 2015, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act that created a new Centralized Partnership Audit regime that is effective for income tax returns filed of partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. These...more

WilmerHale

New Partnership Audit Rules in Effect; Partnerships and LLCs Should Consider Changes

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A new “centralized partnership audit regime” is now in effect for partnerships, including limited liability companies (LLCs) that are treated as partnerships for tax purposes (which we refer to collectively as...more

Bracewell LLP

Bracewell Tax Report: February 2018 #2

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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 (TCJA), with emphasis on how such developments impact the energy,...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

CPA Shoptalk: 8 Takeaways

On January 10th, 11th and 18th our tax attorneys ?hosted a "CPA Shoptalk" seminar in ?Portland, Vancouver and Bend. Below are ?some key takeaways to consider... 1. Partnership Audit Rules Post-TEFRA - The Balanced...more

Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

Early New Year’s Resolution: Update Partnership and LLC Agreements to Comply with New IRS Audit Rules

In 2015, Congress repealed the complex and heavily criticized Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (“TEFRA”) partnership-level audit rules which apply to partnerships and most LLCs. The new audit rules, which...more

Lowndes

Are Your Partnerships Ready for 2018?

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While the news is filled with the ongoing tax reform activity in Congress, there is one tax change that is already in place to take effect January 1, 2018 – the repeal and replacement of the tax audit regime for partnerships....more

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What Practitioners Need to Know about the New Partnership Audit Rules

As you’ve surely heard by now, the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 (“BBA”) enacted new IRS procedures for partnership audits for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. The new audit rules allow the IRS to...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

The New Partnership Audit & Collection Regime: Its Time Has Come

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Beginning 2018, the IRS is authorized to collect from a partnership any tax deficiencies arising out of the partnership’s operations for a taxable year, even if the persons who were partners in the year to which the...more

Dentons

A Summary of the Proposed Partnership Audit Regulations

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This blog post is intended to identify the most material aspects of the proposed regulations the IRS has introduced to implement the BBA partnership audit rules, and provide guidance on what actions a partnership should...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Tax Talk: Volume 10, Issue 2

EDITOR’S NOTE - With the failure of health care legislation to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act, eyes in Washington, D.C. are now turning to tax reform. Since Congress plans to take August off, any real tax...more

Cole Schotz

Partnerships Prepare For New Audit Regime

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On November 2, 2015, new partnership audit rules, repealing existing TEFRA rules, were enacted in Section 1101 of the Bipartisan Budget Act (“BBA”). On August 15, 2016, Treasury published temporary regulations (TD 9780, 81...more

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IRS Issues Guidance To Examiners Handling BBA Partnership Audits

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As many readers know, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) repeals the long standing TEFRA procedures governing IRS examinations of partnerships. As a result, beginning January 1, 2018, partnerships are subject to a...more

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