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Farella Braun + Martel LLP

The IRS Is Targeting Partnership Transactions: Is Your Representative Ready?

Earlier this week, Treasury and the IRS issued guidance to halt the use of partnership rules in the Internal Revenue Code to engage in abusive basis-shifting transactions whereby tax basis is stripped from certain assets and...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

New IRS Unit Leverages AI to Step Up Partnership Audits; Hundreds of New Inquiries Expected

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The IRS’s simmering concern with pass-through entities is heating up, with IRA funds earmarked for increased personnel, AI, and other resources for partnership audits. ...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Inteligencia Artificial Asiste Al IRS Con Los Evasores De Impuestos

El 20/09/23, el IRS anunció que planea establecer un área especial para centrarse en entidades de transferencia grandes o complejas para ayudar con los esfuerzos de cumplimiento de altos ingresos. Con la ayuda de tecnología...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Artificial Intelligence To Assist IRS With Tax Cheats

On 9/20/23, the IRS announced that it plans to establish a special area to focus on large or complex pass-through entities to help with high-income compliance efforts. With the assistance of improved technology as well as...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

The Heat Is on for Large Partnership Audits

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Large partnerships are facing a sea change in tax enforcement. Beginning with the Large Partnership Compliance program announced in 2021 and its most recent announcement that it intends to “stand up” a group focused on large...more

McDermott Will & Emery

IRS Strengthens Its Large Partnership Audit Teams

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Back in October 2021, the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) Large Business and International (LB&I) division announced the Large Partnership Compliance (LPC) program. This new audit program adopted features of the Large...more

Rivkin Radler LLP

Pre-Consolidation Conversions in the Accounting World – Tax Considerations

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Another Change- Last week BDO confirmed that it was going to convert from an entity organized as a limited liability partnership under state law to one organized as a corporation. With that, BDO became the latest in a...more

ArentFox Schiff

New York AG's Suit To Dissolve NRA Highlights Critical Reminders for Nonprofit Boards

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New York's Attorney General is suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA) based upon what the AG alleges are repeated violations of state laws regulating nonprofit corporations. The Attorney General's amended...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

Rivkin Radler LLP

“Opaque Income Sources” + “Tax Gap” = More Enforcement + Tax Hikes = Anyone’s Guess

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Tax Gap- In a report released last week, the U.S. Treasury Department explained that the so-called “tax gap” – i.e., the difference between the amount of federal income taxes owed by taxpayers for a taxable year and the...more

Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C.

Five Important Tax Highlights from 2018

2018 was a very active year for tax developments. The big story was the application of the substantial reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which took initial effect in 2018. But there were several other developments...more

Dechert LLP

Newly Proposed Partnership Audit Rules Allow for Multiple-Tier “Push-Out” Election

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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

Epstein Becker & Green

Reminder: The New Partnership Audit Rules Are Effective for Tax Years Beginning January 1, 2018

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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

Goodwin

Partnership Audit and Tax Collection Rules Undergo Fundamental Change

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Under the default rule, any adjustment to partnership items or allocations among the partners will be determined, and any tax (including interest and penalties) attributable to adjustments will be collected, at the...more

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New Partnership Audit Rules Heading Our Way?

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The budget bill introduced yesterday includes a proposal to revamp/streamline how partnerships are audited. Specifically, it would repeal the much maligned TEFRA (1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act) rules....more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Legal Alert: MTC Explores Transfer Pricing Audits, Shelves Pass-Through Entity Project

On Thursday, May 9, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) hosted an Executive Committee (Committee) meeting in Washington, D.C. The Committee discussed many items ranging from election of new officers to Committee updates to...more

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