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A recent memo from the IRS's Large Business and International (LB&I) Division indicates an intention to resolve audits efficiently and provide taxpayers with opportunities to quickly settle and resolve issues....more
The New York Times reported on March 4, 2025, that the Trump administration is aiming to cut half of the Internal Revenue Service’s workforce by the end of the year. The cuts are reportedly across all divisions of the IRS,...more
With the IRS laser-focused on enforcement, many partnerships will find themselves subject to their first IRS audits under the new procedurally complex partnership audit rules. Under these rules, the default is that the...more
As part of our ongoing series on SECURE 2.0, this post discusses three significant changes to corrections of common retirement plan errors: (1) New rules for correcting overpayments, (2) expansion of the Self-Correction...more
On November 16, 2022, the IRS released a long-awaited update to the procedure for large corporate taxpayers and large partnerships under continuous audit to obtain Qualified Amended Return (QAR) treatment for items disclosed...more
For decades, large corporate taxpayers under continuous audit have been able to make disclosures under Revenue Procedure 94-69 at the beginning of an examination to notify the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of adjustments...more
On June 3, 2022, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) announced a new pre-examination compliance pilot program beginning in June 2022. Under the pilot program, the IRS will notify a plan sponsor by letter that its retirement...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30, which provides an updated version of the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS). EPCRS is the IRS’s comprehensive program for plan sponsors to...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made important changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS) in Revenue Procedure 2021-30 that are helpful for plan sponsors as they expand the ability of plan sponsors...more
The new centralized audit regime for partnerships established by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) has been in effect since January 1, 2018, but is your partnership or LLC treated as a partnership for tax purposes...more
Most partnerships and limited liability companies taxed as partnerships (collectively, "partnerships") are now in the middle of preparing their 2018 tax returns. They may notice a new line on their tax returns where they...more
In 2015, Congress passed the Bipartisan Budget Act that created a new Centralized Partnership Audit regime that is effective for income tax returns filed of partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. These...more
Beginning in 2018, most partnerships (including LLCs and other arrangements treated as partnerships for tax purposes) will be subject to a new “centralized partnership audit regime.” The volume of Internal Revenue Service...more
If you are a partner of a partnership or a member of a limited liability company (LLC) taxed as a partnership, or are entering into a new partnership or LLC, you may have some important decisions to make in light of impending...more
On November 2, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Agreement of 2015 (the “Act”), which includes major changes to the partnership tax audit rules (the “New Audit Rules”). The Act repeals the current...more
The IRS Employee Plans Compliance Unit (EPCU) recently announced two new projects and updated two others. In each case EPCU is using compliance checks as a tool to increase IRS enforcement presence and ensure compliance....more
Just because an employer calls someone an independent contractor does not make him or her so. Because revenue-starved states have been increasingly focusing on independent contractor classification issues, challenges to the...more