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The IRS is making good on its promise to step up enforcement on large partnerships that issue more than 100 annual K-1s and have more than $100 million in assets. As noted in this Latham Client Alert, the IRS’s renewed focus...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
Landmark changes in the federal income tax treatment of partnerships (including multi-member LLCs) became effective in 2018 for many more partnerships than first anticipated. As a result of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,...more
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
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
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
Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of January 27 – 31, 2020. January 27, 2020: The Joint Committee on Taxation released a report...more
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 enacted sweeping changes to the federal audit regime for entities taxed as partnerships. The new audit rules became effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. For tax...more
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
Congress enacted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) under which existing partnership audit rules have been replaced. The new BBA audit rules are broad and complex and effective for partnership tax returns filed for tax...more
The IRS has issued final regulations under IRC § 6221(b), implementing rules for electing out of the new centralized partnership audit regime enacted under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. The final regulations under IRC §...more
On January 1, 2018, the rules and procedures relating to IRS audits of partnerships, including those limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, (for purposes here, collectively, the “Partnerships”) will change. The...more
The U.S. Department of the Treasury (the “Treasury”) and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) have issued a new installment of proposed regulations under the centralized partnership audit regime included in the...more
We are about to witness an almost unprecedented centralized partnership audit regime that takes full effect for taxable years starting on or after January 1, 2018, as adopted in late 2015 by Section 1101 of the Bipartisan...more
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”), enacted on November 2, 2015, provided for sweeping changes to the way partnerships are audited, including the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to levy U.S. federal...more
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
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 fundamentally changes the rules and procedures governing IRS audits of partnerships for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. These new rules are contained in new Sections...more
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
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
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
In less than six months, on January 1, 2018, the new centralized partnership audit rules enacted by Congress as part of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) will go into effect. The new rules were drafted in response to...more
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) have re-issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) on the new centralized partnership audit rules enacted as part of the Bipartisan...more
The new rules represent a complete overhaul of partnership audit, assessment, and collection procedures. Taxpayers should review and potentially amend partnership agreements before the new rules are scheduled to take effect...more
New partnership audit rules enacted into law on November 2, 2015 (the “Centralized Partnership Audit Rules”) (previously discussed in our QuickStudy: Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 Changes Audit Rules for Private Equity and...more
The arcane rules surrounding partnership audits rarely, if ever, come up, and most people don’t even know that they exist. What once was a set of rules confined to the dark recesses of the Internal Revenue Code are now...more