Partnership and LLC Taxation

Final Rules on Acceleration of COD Income Deferral Are Issued

The IRS issued final regulations on the rules to accelerate COD income that taxpayers elected to defer over a five-year period when an applicable debt instrument was reacquired by the issuer or a related party in 2009 or 2010.

Final Regulations for Noncompensatory Partnership Options

The IRS in issued final and proposed regulations governing the issuance, exercise, lapse of, and accounting for a noncompensatory partnership option.

Targeted Partnership Allocations: Part II

This article discusses a number of unresolved issues regarding targeted partnership allocations.

Application of Sec. 704(c) to Divisions

There is no guidance addressing how Sec. 704(c) principles should apply when a partnership distributes an asset to multiple partners in a partnership division, including in an assets-over division, which may leave open two alternative approaches.

Defining “Attributable to” Under Sec. 897(g)

The lack of regulatory and published guidance has created uncertainty in applying Sec. 897 to determine the amount of gain attributable to a USRPI.

Entities With Less Than $50 Million in Assets Get New Schedule M-3 Filing Rules

The IRS announced changes in the filing requirements for Schedule M-3, Net Income (Loss) Reconciliation, for certain corporations and partnerships.

Targeted Partnership Allocations: Part I

This article discusses the rules governing safe-harbor allocations, the rules governing targeted allocations, and reasons for the use of targeted allocations.

Schedule M-3 Filing Requirement Reduced for Entities Below $50 Million in Assets

The IRS announced changes in the filing requirements for Schedule M-3, Net Income (Loss) Reconciliation, for certain corporations and partnerships.

Foreign Corporations Investing in Partnerships: Common Branch Profits Tax Issues

Highlights of the tax compliance challenges that often arise as a result of U.S. branch profits tax exposure.

Sec. 901(m): Potential Trap for Partnership Transactions

New Sec. 901(m) limits the creditability of foreign taxes in certain acquisition transactions where a taxpayer receives a basis step-up for U.S. tax purposes but no corresponding basis step-up for foreign tax purposes.

Incorporating an Insolvent Partnership: Availability of the Insolvency Exclusion

Incurring COD income at the partnership level may provide significantly different, and potentially detrimental, tax results to owners in a partnership than would incurring COD income at the corporate level.

Check-the-Box: A Trap for the Unwary

It has never been easier to effect the choice of operating as a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation for federal income tax purposes; however, sometimes unforeseen problems can result.

Recently Issued Sec. 108(e)(8) Regulations: Liquidation Value Safe Harbor

Recently issued final regulations on partnership debt-for-equity exchanges contain a liquidation value safe-harbor method for valuing the partnership interest received in exchange for the cancellation of debt.

Partners’ Income Allocations and the New Net Investment Income Tax

The health care acts, along with recently issued Treasury guidance on the applicability of the additional Medicare tax, may prompt partnerships to reevaluate the potential tax impact of the partnership’s structure on their individual partners.

Long-Awaited Final Regs. Issued on Noncompensatory Partnership Options

The IRS issued regulations on the treatment of certain call options, warrants, convertible debt, and convertible equity that are not issued in connection with the performance of services, i.e., noncompensatory partnership options.

Payments to Taxpayer Held to Be Compensation, Not Distributions

The Eleventh Circuit held that payments made to a taxpayer by limited partnerships that he controlled but did not own an interest in were compensation reportable on Schedule C, not partnership distributions.

Current Developments in Partners and Partnerships

This article reviews and analyzes recent rulings and decisions involving partnerships. The discussion covers developments in partnership formation, income allocations, and basis adjustments.

Final Regs. Remove De Minimis Partner Rule

The IRS issued final regulations that remove the de minimis partner rule from Regs. Sec. 1.704-1(b)(2)(iii)(e).

Debt Discharge Under Sec. 108: Partnerships vs. S Corps.

As tax liability for COD income gives many taxpayers an unpleasant surprise in today’s economy, its tax treatment continues to be a focal point for tax professionals in tax planning and preparation.

Rehabilitation Credits Disallowed

The Third Circuit held that a corporate partner in a partnership was not entitled to claim historic rehabilitation credits passed through to it from the partnership because the corporation was not a bona fide partner in the partnership.
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