Overview
With the increasing complexity and ever-changing nature of tax laws and issues, today’s accountant needs a partnership/LLC course focusing on the hottest tax topics and most frequently encountered issues. This case driven course will deal with both partnership/LLC and partner/member developments addressing the most common, yet complex Federal partnership/LLC issues and problems.
**Please Note: If you need credit reported to the IRS for this IRS approved program, please download the IRS CE request form on the Course Materials Tab and submit to kori.herrera@acpen.com
Prerequisites
Background in partnership and individual income tax law
Objectives
- Form a partnership/LLC and calculate the entity’s initial inside basis in the assets and partner/member’s outside basis in the entity
- Understand the operational issues during the growth and maturity of a partnership/LLC and how the schedule K items get allocated to the partners/members on their individual Schedule K-1 effecting outside basis
- Comprehend the tax ramifications of the sale versus redemption of a partnership/member interest
Highlights
- Extensive review of the partnership tax laws with an emphasis on any new legislative changes
- Overview of different forms of business entities including the check-the-box regulations
- Formation issues including the mandatory allocation of the §704(c) pre-contribution gain or losses back to the contributing partner/member
- Schedule K and K-1 – separately stated versus non-separately stated income and expense items
- Detailed Schedule K-1 reporting including the 20% qualified business income (QBI) deduction and 3.8% net investment income tax
- Calculating the tax and §704(b) book capital accounts
- Substantial economic effect requirement to have special allocations to the partners/members
- Allocation of recourse & non-recourse debt on K-1s
- Guaranteed payment issues and tax treatment of fringe benefits
- Self-employment tax issues and pitfalls
- Tax treatment of distributions – cash versus non-cash & liquidating versus non-liquidating
- Sales and liquidations (redemptions) of partnership interests
- §754 optional basis adjustments and mandatory adjustments
