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New York’s personal income tax law, like that of other states, conforms with the federal system of income taxation. The reason typically given for such conformity is to simplify tax return preparation, improve compliance and...more
1. Introduction - In principle any national citizen or foreign national is allowed to establish a business in Austria. A company is defined as a partnership of at least two persons (exceptions for limited liability...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
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
Landmark changes in the federal income tax treatment of partnerships (including multi-member LLCs) became effective in 2018 for many more partnerships than first anticipated. As a result of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015,...more
2018 was a very active year for tax developments. The big story was the application of the substantial reforms of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, which took initial effect in 2018. But there were several other developments...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
1. Introduction - In Austria, any national citizen or foreign national is, in principle, allowed to establish a business. A company is defined as a partnership of at least two persons (exceptions for limited liability...more
The January 1, 2018 effective date of the new federal partnership audit rules quietly came and went, with many of our partnership and LLC clients and their advisers hoping that the rules were just a bad dream or would at...more
Katten previously alerted our readers to the changes in partnership audit rules [See Katten Advisory, "New Partnership Audit Regime Set to Take Effect in 2018, Proactive Planning Recommended," August 7, 2017]. The Internal...more
New rules that change the way that partnership entities and limited liability companies are audited took effect on January 1, 2018. You may have received the legal update we sent on January 2, 2018....more
Sweeping changes to the rules governing federal income tax audits of partnerships went into effect this year. The new partnership audit rules (the “New Audit Rules”) apply for partnership tax returns for taxable years...more
The new partnership audit rules went into effect earlier this year. The new rules permit the IRS to assess and collect tax directly from a partnership or an LLC taxed as a partnership (both of these entities are, for...more
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 (“Act”), was signed into law on March 23rd. The Act contains a number of changes to the partnership audit rules that went into effect for partnerships (including LLCs taxed as...more
New partnership audit rules (the "New Rules") became effective for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. These rules, which are designed to make it easier for the IRS to audit partnerships and collect additional...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
A new “centralized partnership audit regime” is now in effect for partnerships, including limited liability companies (LLCs) that are treated as partnerships for tax purposes (which we refer to collectively as...more
Congress enacted the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”) under which existing partnership audit rules have been replaced. The new BBA audit rules are broad and complex and effective for partnership tax returns filed for tax...more
On January 1, 2018, the rules and procedures relating to IRS audits of partnerships, including those limited liability companies taxed as partnerships, (for purposes here, collectively, the “Partnerships”) will change. The...more
For tax years beginning after December 31, 2017, a new centralized audit regime for partnerships and LLCs will take effect. Currently, audit adjustments made by the Internal Revenue Service for partnerships (LLCs) are made at...more
Under pre- 2018 rules, when a partnership (which for this Client Alert will include a limited liability company which is taxed as a partnership) was audited by the IRS, one of the partners acted as the “Tax Matters Partner”...more
The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA”), enacted on November 2, 2015, provided for sweeping changes to the way partnerships are audited, including the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to levy U.S. federal...more
Beginning 2018, the IRS is authorized to collect from a partnership any tax deficiencies arising out of the partnership’s operations for a taxable year, even if the persons who were partners in the year to which the...more
This blog post is intended to identify the most material aspects of the proposed regulations the IRS has introduced to implement the BBA partnership audit rules, and provide guidance on what actions a partnership should...more