Reporting & Filing Requirements
The guidance focuses on nonidentical governing provisions; principal-purpose determinations regarding the one-class-of-stock requirement; disproportionate distributions; certain errors on forms; missing administrative or acceptance letters for an S or QSub election; and the requirement to file returns consistent with an S election.
Notice identifying syndicated conservation easement transactions as listed transactions is held invalid.
FinCEN estimates that most companies will have a simple structure that will require 90 minutes per response, but complex entry filings will require much more time.
Proposed regulations under the Corporate Transparency Act address protocols for access to beneficial owner information by authorized recipients.
Revised draft instructions for partnership and S corporation Schedules K-2 and K-3 contain significant changes to the requirements to qualify for the domestic filing exception for filing and furnishing the 2022 schedules.
This item discusses how to request modification of an imputed underpayment.
Delinquent partnership returns are ‘filed’ when they are delivered by the requested method to and received by an IRS official authorized to receive such returns;
Practitioners may face a difficult analysis in helping their clients understand their possible PTE election opportunities.
This item discusses how depreciation recapture applies in certain situations involving partnerships.
An insufficient understanding of the rules can be dangerous to taxpayers when determining which entity has a filing responsibility in Tennessee.
This item discusses how owners selling partnership interests should address which states may attempt to tax the entire gain, how taxation of the gain may be divided among the states where the partnership does business, compliance considerations, and technical developments and trends that may affect the transaction.
The IRS delays e-filing capability for schedules reporting S shareholders’ items of international tax relevance, earlier forecast for mid-June, to July 24.
In eight new FAQs on its website, the IRS covers some special issues, including several that it says will be added to the forms’ instructions.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration recommends setting goals and benchmarks for the centralized audit regime under the Bipartisan Budget Act.
The IRS, citing earlier problems e-filing a new form reporting S corporation owners’ basis, has granted relief to certain farmers and fishermen who missed their March 1 filing deadline.
Comment letters from the AICPA and state CPA societies also offer further recommendations.
The new schedules for returns of passthrough entities with international items have been greeted with antipathy by practitioners. The IRS provided relief Wednesday for eligible entities for tax year 2021.
What partnerships, S corporations, and others with foreign partnership interests need to know for tax year 2021 and beyond.
Taxpayers should strongly consider these letter rulings when trying to determine whether they want to structure a borrowing with a regarded entity as the legal borrower or whether they prefer to have a DRE be the legal borrower of the debt.
Partnerships and their partners need to work closely to maintain strong communications to overcome challenges to information sharing and, ultimately, to computational matters and information reporting.
