Partnership Representative

On December 19, 2018, the United States Tax Court announced that it had adopted interim and proposed amendments to its Rules of Practice and Procedure pertaining to “Partnership Actions?? under the BBA.  The new rules are at Rules 255.1 through 255.7 and have been published in proposed form to allow for notice and public comment.

The rules generally track the structure of the rules pertaining to partnership actions under TEFRA, while substituting in key definitional and procedural changes as set forth by the BBA.  Among other rules, Rule 255.6 grants the court the power to take such ...

Final Partnership Audit Regulations (December 21, 2018) READ MORE

On November 28, 2018, the Internal Revenue Service (the “IRS??) published a draft version of the instructions for Form 8979, Partnership Representative Revocation, Designation, and Resignation Form (click here).  When read in conjunction with the previously published draft of Form 8979, taxpayers now have a clearer idea as to the process for how to change a previously selected partnership representative or designated individual. 

Per the instructions, only the partnership or the partnership representative may file a Form 8979.  Additionally, both the form and the ...

Summer 2018 proved to be an active time in the implementation cycle of the new partnership audit regime, created under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA??). As this is the first tax year in which the new regime will apply to partnership audits, the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS??) issued a plethora of proposed and final regulations to assist taxpayers in navigating the audit process. Partnerships that have not yet reviewed their agreements, should take steps now to comply with the new rules and regulations. With the year coming to a close, we at ...

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (“BBA??) fundamentally changed the rules by which partnerships, and entities taxed as partnerships (such as limited liability companies), interact with the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS??) in an audit or litigation. The new rules apply to partnership tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. We outlined these significant changes to the partnership audit rules in a prior Alert. The BBA repealed the 30 year-old TEFRA partnership audit regime, upending or creating uncertainty with respect to previously-settled partnership tax rules ...