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Limited Liability Company (LLC) Disregarded Entities

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Revised IRS Form W-9 impacts disregarded entities and their owners as well as US partnerships with foreign owners

The IRS recently released a revised version of Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification, bearing a March 2024 revision date. The revised Form W-9 modifies line 3a and includes a new line 3b....more

Ballard Spahr LLP

IRS Changes Rules for Who Can Sign a Power of Attorney for an Entity Treated as a Partnership

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Summary - In November 2022, the IRS updated its guidance regarding who can sign Form 2848, Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative (POA), submitted on behalf of a limited liability company (LLC) treated as a...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Thoughts about the New Filing Requirements for Foreign-Owned U.S. entities?

Foreign Persons that own 25% of a US entity might want to reassess their strategy as it relates to that ownership. It “used to be” (until December, 2016) that a Foreign Person as a single owner of a Limited Liability Company...more

Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Information Reporting For The Foreign-Owned Not-So-Disregarded Disregarded Entity

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As the taxable year ending December 31, 2017 approaches, the thoughts of most people turn to holidays and family gatherings, feasting and celebrations, and reflecting, perhaps, on another year gone-by. Not so for tax...more

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Treating Partners as Employees – Overview and Update

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Limited liability companies (LLCs) have become the fastest-growing entity choice for businesses in recent years. LLCs provide flexibility in operations and distributions. However, to the surprise of many businesspeople, if an...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

IRS Clarifies Benefit Coverage Requirements for Employees of Tax-Exempt Disregarded Entities

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued General Counsel Memorandum 201634021 (Memorandum), clarifying benefit coverage requirements for employees of a disregarded LLC wholly owned by a single member tax-exempt...more

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IRS Says Employees of Disregarded Single-Member LLC May Participate in Parent’s 403(b) and 457(b) Plans

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Seyfarth Synopsis: A recently published IRS memorandum provides that employees of a single-member LLC treated as a disregarded entity must be allowed to participate in a section 403(b) plan sponsored by its parent 501(c)(3)...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

IRS Clarifies that Indirect Owners of Disregarded Entities Are Liable for Self-Employment Tax

The IRS recently released temporary regulations clarifying that an employee of a disregarded entity is liable for self-employment tax if the employee is a partner in the partnership that owns the disregarded entity. See...more

Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

Employee Benefits Advisory: IRS Issues Rules Clarifying the Self-Employment Tax Treatment of Partners – Possible Impact on...

In new regulations issued on May 4, 2016, the IRS clarified that partners in a partnership (including members of a limited liability company that is taxed as a partnership) that owns a subsidiary that is a disregarded entity...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Partnerships: IRS Extends Prohibition on Treating Partners as Employees

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Employees of partnerships, LLCs or their disregarded entity subsidiaries who receive equity in such entities may be treated as “self-employed” for tax purposes. On May 3, 2016, the US Treasury Department (Treasury)...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

LLCs May Be Right Unless They’re Wrong

As I’ve posted before, I usually advise non-US companies to form a corporation when expanding to the United States. Every now and then, I get some pushback because the non-US company has heard about ‘limited liability...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Neither a Partner nor Employee Be: Treasury and the IRS Issue Regulations Clarifying the Employment Tax Treatment of Partners in...

The Treasury Department (Treasury) and the Internal Revenue Service (Service) have issued temporary regulations (Regulations) clarifying the federal employment tax treatment of the owners of partnerships and other entities...more

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New Regulations Squash Planning Tool for Avoiding Self-Employment Tax and Related Employee Benefit Issues

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Tax practitioners often face this issue: client is a limited liability company taxed as a partnership for federal income tax purposes (“LLC”), and it wants to issue equity to a current employee (“Individual”) without...more

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Wealth Management Update - September 2015

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

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