Basis
This article reviews and analyzes recent rulings and decisions involving partnerships and discusses developments in partnership formation, debt and income allocations, distributions, and basis adjustments.
A partner’s basis is key to determining the application of loss limitations and the recognition of gain or loss on partnership distributions and dispositions of partnership interests.
This article reviews and analyzes recent law changes as
well as rulings and decisions involving partnerships.
To ease the regulatory burden on partnerships, the IRS announced that it is eliminating the requirement that partnership elections under Sec. 754 be signed by a partner.
To ease the regulatory burden on partnerships, the IRS announced that it is eliminating the requirement that partnership elections under Sec. 754 be signed by a partner.
Sec. 743(b) adjustments are complex, and multitier partnership structures only exacerbate that complexity.
This article reviews and analyzes recent law changes as well as rulings and decisions involving partnerships.
Including “bad boy” provisions in loan agreements is a common practice to protect the lender in the commercial real estate finance industry.
The optional basis adjustment election is an attempt to allow partners to correct certain discrepancies by affecting a transferee’s allocable basis in the underlying partnership assets.
This article discusses developments in income allocations, disguised sales, partnership distributions, terminations, and basis adjustments.
It is not uncommon for a partnership to attempt to make a valid Sec. 754 election, only to find that it failed to satisfy regulatory requirements.
Only partnership debt that has an impact on the partnership's inside basis is a liability. All other debt is excluded from consideration.
Under Sec. 704(d), a member's allocable share of loss from a limited liability company (LLC) taxed as a partnership is deductible only to the extent of the member's outside basis in his or her LLC interest at the end of the LLC year. In determining a member's outside basis at year end, adjustments for increases and decreases are made in a specific order according to Regs. Sec. 1.704-1(d)(2).
The IRS issued proposed regulations providing guidance on the application of Sec. 704(c)(1)(C) added by the American Jobs Creation Act and the amendments to the mandatory basis adjustment rules of Sec. 743 in the AJCA.
A taxpayer’s basis is often scrutinized by the IRS, particularly when basis is claimed based upon debts incurred by a flowthrough entity.
A partnership making an optional Sec. 754 basis adjustment for land subject to a long-term ground lease is permitted to adjust the basis of the land but may not allocate the basis adjustment to buildings or other depreciable assets the lessee constructed.
This article reviews and analyzes recent rulings and decisions involving partnerships. The discussion covers developments in partnership formation, income allocations, and basis adjustments.
This article reviews and analyzes recent rulings and decisions involving partnerships.
The ongoing controversy over whether a taxpayer’s overstatement of basis triggers a six-year statute of limitation period continues as the Fourth Circuit and Fifth Circuit both held within days of each other that the extended period does not apply. These decisions are at odds with a Seventh Circuit opinion issued in January and with regulations finalized in December.
A federal appeals court has handed the IRS another defeat on the issue of whether an overstatement of basis amounts to an omission from gross income for purposes of invoking the longer, six-year limitation period for assessing tax under Sec. 6501(e).
Qualified business income deduction regs. and other guidance issued