Yesterday, Senators Franken, Warren, Baldwin and Whitehouse sent Treasury Secretary Lew a letter regarding management fee waiver arrangements. What is a management fee waiver arrangement? It is where a fund manager...more
Last week, I was at the ABA Tax Section meeting in Chicago. During one of the partnership panels, Clifford Warren, Special Counsel to the Associate Chief Counsel (Passthroughs and Special Industries) at the IRS, was posed...more
On July 22, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released proposed regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) (the proposed regulations) which would treat certain partnership...more
The U.S. Treasury Department (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) have issued proposed regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), covering the...more
On July 23, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department proposed regulations that address the tax treatment of certain partnership interests issued in exchange for services. Of particular note, the...more
On July 22, 2015, the IRS released proposed regulations that could limit the utility of “management fee waiver” arrangements (the “Proposed Regulations”). Management fees generally are taxable as compensation income....more
On July 22, 2015, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) released proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) regarding disguised payments for services under Section 707(a)(2)(A) of the...more
On July 22, 2015, the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service released proposed regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code relating to disguised payments for services between partners...more
On July 22, 2015, the Treasury Department and the IRS published proposed regulations (the "Proposed Regulations") that address the circumstances in which allocations or distributions made by a partnership to a partner that...more
On July 23, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Notice”) which proposed Treasury regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the...more
The proposed regulations may have a significant impact on certain “management fee waiver” arrangements that have become commonplace in the investment management industry....more
Fee waivers by partners for services rendered to their partnerships will now be subject to scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”), pursuant to the Treasury Department’s notice of proposed rulemaking (the...more
On July 22, 2015, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Internal Revenue Service issued proposed Treasury Regulations under Section 707(a)(2)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, addressing management...more