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In less than four months, the citizens of the United States will be electing their next President to a four-year term. They will also be deciding which of the two major political parties will “control” the Senate, the House,...more
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS,” or the “Service”) issued guidance on June 17, proposing new regulations and releasing a revenue ruling to challenge the use of basis-shifting transactions by complex partnerships. In...more
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
In many ways, the labor market is as competitive as ever. Businesses continue to explore compensation packages, in addition to ordinary salary, that will help them attract, hire and retain talent. One method of compensation...more
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
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
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
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
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
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
Decisions- It is often the case that the optimal form of legal entity through which a business should operate, at least for income tax purposes, will depend in part upon the stage of its life cycle in which the business...more
The Maryland Comptroller’s Office issued a Tax Alert on April 11, 2023 addressing policy and procedural changes to pass-through entity (PTE) filings and payments. For tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2022, PTEs are required...more
Taxes can have a significant impact on the value of a business. Pass-through entities such as S-Corporations and partnerships generally do not pay any taxes since the income is passed through to the individual shareholder or...more
This Memorandum discusses the New York City pass-through entity tax (“PTET”) election. Partnerships and S corporations with New York City resident partners, members or shareholders may elect into this tax. Once elected, New...more
I recently encountered an interesting situation in which someone suggested that a grantor trust be decanted into a non-grantor trust before the end of the taxable year. The reason? To avoid the special interest charge that...more
Nonresidents of California generally are not taxed by California on gain resulting from the sale of partnership interests. Under new guidance issued by the California Franchise Tax Board ("FTB") nonresidents can now...more
On June 27, US Senators Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer announced proposed legislation referred to as the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (the Act). The proposed legislation includes changes that would expand the scope of IRC...more
Earlier this week, Senators Manchin and Schumer reached an agreement securing the former’s support for a tax bill proposed by Senate Democrats entitled the “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022” (the “Act”). Included in the Act...more
Tax Alchemy? How many of you remember Section 138509 of the Ways and Means Committee’s markup last September of what would have been the Build Back Better Act? (A moment of silence, please.) Allow me to jog your memory....more
Investment, private equity, and real estate fund managers should consider becoming familiar with the complex final regulations on the preferential tax treatment of “carried interest” under Section 1061 of the Internal Revenue...more
New Mexico recently enacted legislation qualifying pass-through entities to make an annual election to pay an entity-level state tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2022. Here’s what it means for your oil...more
The Multistate Tax Commission (MTC) held its spring meetings in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 19 through 22. The Uniformity Committee meeting took place on April 20 - some highlights from the meeting are included below. ...more
Taxes and Snowy Weather? How many of you awoke Saturday to find that the winter storm about which we had heard so much during the preceding days had lived up to its hype? What was your first thought? “Fudge,” right?...more
In late 2020, the IRS issued a notice confirming imminent proposed regulations that would allow certain tax strategies to avoid the individual $10,000 state and local tax (“SALT”) deduction limitation of the Tax Cuts and Jobs...more
Timing- I had planned to post this piece during the third week of December, a day or so after the exchange between Senator Manchin and the White House sealed the fate of the Build Back Better plan, at least in its current...more