News & Analysis as of

Limited Liability Company (LLC) Internal Revenue Service U.S. Treasury

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

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

CTA – The Large Operating Company Exemption – Not Everybody Can Be A “Big BOI”

In 2021, the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) was enacted into U.S. federal law as part of a multi‑national effort to rein in the use of entities to mask illegal activity. The CTA directs the U.S. Department of the...more

Foster Garvey PC

A Narrow Aspect of the Check-the-Box Regulations that Deserves Some Press – Changing an Entity’s Tax Classification From That of a...

Foster Garvey PC on

More than two decades ago, the Service announced its intention to consider simplifying the entity classification rules in Notice 95-14. It stated: “The Internal Revenue Service and the Treasury Department are considering...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup October 18 – October 22, 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on

Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of October 18, 2021 – October 22, 2021... October 18, 2021: The IRS announced that beginning...more

Gould + Ratner LLP

IRS Finalizes Carried Interest Regulations

Gould + Ratner LLP on

The IRS and Treasury Department released final regulations on January 7, 2021, that govern the tax treatment of partnership and LLC interests related to services, so-called carried interests, a/k/a applicable partnership...more

Cole Schotz

SALT CAP Workaround – An IRS Holiday Gift

Cole Schotz on

The 2017 Tax Act made life harder on individuals living in high tax states (such as New York, New Jersey, and California) by limiting the deduction for state and local taxes (“SALT”) to $10,000. In an attempt to circumvent...more

White and Williams LLP

IRS to Allow “Workaround” to Deduction Limits for State and Local Income Taxes

White and Williams LLP on

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (2017 Tax Act) limited the deduction of state and local taxes to $10,000 for individuals. Several states, including Connecticut, New Jersey and Maryland, have passed legislation that imposed income...more

Troutman Pepper

Proposed Regulations Provide Guidance on Unrelated Business Taxable Income (UBTI) Calculation

Troutman Pepper on

On April 24, 2020, the U.S. Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations with respect to Section 512(a)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code. These regulations are designed to provide guidance on...more

Proskauer - Tax Talks

Proposed Regulations on UBTI Provide Guidance to Tax-Exempt Organizations Making Fund Investments

Proskauer - Tax Talks on

On April 23, 2020, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS”) issued proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”) under Section 512(a)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”). Section...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

IRS Provides Additional Clarity Regarding Donations to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert: Alabama Edition

On December 16, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Department issued proposed regulations... that provide some good news and needed clarification for C corporations, individuals, and S corporations and other...more

Holland & Knight LLP

New Treasury Regulations Revise Taxation of U.S. Persons Owning Foreign Corporations - Guidance Will Impact Minority Partners in...

Holland & Knight LLP on

Highlights - • In an unanticipated development, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued regulations (New Guidance) that significantly modifies the taxation of U.S....more

King & Spalding

Foreign Guarantees and Collateral in Play Following Finalization of Deemed Dividend Regulations

King & Spalding on

On May 22, 2019 the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released regulations (the “Final Regulations”) finalizing and making certain technical changes to proposed regulations (the “Proposed Regulations”,...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

Partnerships and LLCs Need to Revise Their Agreements to Address New Audit Procedures

In August 2018, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued final Regulations concerning the qualifications, designation, authority, and resignation of the required Partnership Representative under the new Centralized...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Status Report on IRS Guidance Limiting Charitable Contribution Deductions to Scholarship Granting Organizations - SALT Alert:...

Sometimes the law of unintended consequences is difficult to correct after the fact. The most recent example may be the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s $10,000 annual limitation on state and local tax deductions claimed by...more

Bowditch & Dewey

Op Funds Expand Deferral Paths for CRE Investors

Bowditch & Dewey on

BOSTON — The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 created the Opportunity Zone program which provides real estate investors a new tool to defer gains from sales or exchanges of capital assets by investing those gains in a “Qualified...more

White and Williams LLP

Opportunity Zone Tax Incentives: Significant Guidance from the IRS

White and Williams LLP on

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued significant guidance regarding the implementation of the 2017 Tax Act provisions involving opportunity zones and the potential for both capital gain deferral and capital gain...more

Dechert LLP

Reissuance of Proposed Regulations on Partnership Audit Rules

Dechert LLP on

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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Proposed Tax Regulations Limit Availability of Valuation Discounts to Family Business Owners

For family business owners who desire to transfer ownership of part of their business to the next generation, the valuation of the business interest is often an important factor to consider. This is especially true for family...more

Burr & Forman

IRS Proposes New Rules Designed to Restrict Valuation Discounts in Family Transfers

Burr & Forman on

Partnerships and LLCs are common choices of entity for family-owned businesses, due to their flexibility and the many uses to which they can be put – including pooling of family assets, succession planning, asset protection,...more

Dechert LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Regarding Valuation Discounts for Transfers of Family-Controlled Entities, if Enacted, Would Apply...

Dechert LLP on

After years of anticipation, the U.S. IRS recently issued Proposed Treasury Regulations that would, if enacted in their current form, substantially eliminate most valuation discounts for family-controlled entities and result...more

Burr & Forman

Family-Controlled Businesses -- Tax Targets Again: Newly Proposed 2704 Regulations and Presidential Candidates' Positions

Burr & Forman on

It's August of an election---year, and not just any election---year, a presidential election year. So, in less than 80 days, we'll all go to the polls and elect a new president. While Benjamin Franklin might have been right...more

Dickinson Wright

The End to Discounts for Transfers of Interests in Family Business Entities

Dickinson Wright on

The ability to use transfer and liquidation restrictions in legal documents to reduce the value of an interest in a family-controlled (or “closely-held”) business entity (e.g., partnership, corporation, limited liability...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Proposed Treasury Regulations Would Severely Limit Valuation Discounts

Holland & Knight LLP on

Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of the Treasury unveiled its long-awaited proposed regulations targeting valuation discounts commonly used in estate planning, thereby overturning decades of settled law. As drafted,...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Proposed Rules Would Limit Valuation Discounts for Family Controlled Entities

Goulston & Storrs PC on

On August 2, 2016, the Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations that would severely limit valuation discounts for lack of marketability and lack of control that taxpayers have historically applied for federal gift,...more

Stinson LLP

IRS Proposes Rules That Would Dramatically Reduce Valuation Discounts in Family Business Succession Planning

Stinson LLP on

Business Owners May Have Little Time to Act Before Rules Are Finalized - The valuation of a family member's interest in a family business has a major impact on the success or failure of a transfer of such interest to...more

32 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide