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This webinar will prepare pass-through advisers to withstand IRS challenges to partners' basis calculations. Our panel of federal tax experts will guide partners and tax professionals through the calculations necessary to determine a partner's basis in a partnership, the IRS examination, and handling prior period capital account errors.

Faculty

Description

Recently, the IRS announced a partnership campaign to include audits of partners' deductions of flow-through losses from partnerships. The Service believes that partners are deducting losses in excess of basis rather than suspending these losses when required. The IRS heightened its ability to track partners' capital by implementing requirements to report negative tax basis capital in 2019, all partners' capital accounts beginning in 2020, and added disclosures for Section 704(c) built-in gains and losses. The IRS is using data analytics to identify partnerships that are most likely noncompliant.

Practitioners who have been scrambling to meet these added reporting requirements must prepare to defend these positions and the calculations reported. Determining a partner's outside basis, including whether tax basis capital has been appropriately captured and a partner's share of liabilities, is complicated. Recent reporting rules have led to the discovery of allocation errors.

Pass-through entity advisers need to prepare for upcoming examinations and know how to handle audits of pass-through entities.

Listen as our panel of IRS examination experts explains how to properly maintain and support partners' basis in partnerships and how to defend these calculations when representing partners.

Outline

  1. IRS' partnership basis compliance campaign
  2. Determining outside basis
    1. Tax basis capital
    2. Liabilities
    3. Section 743(b) basis adjustments
  3. Handling past errors
    1. BBA partnerships
    2. Amended returns
    3. Unresolved differences
  4. Handling the IRS examination
  5. Best practices

Benefits

The panel will cover these and other critical issues:

  • How to maintain, calculate, and document basis by partner
  • Tips for handling an IRS audit of a partner's basis
  • How to appropriately resolve past capital account allocation errors
  • How the new BBA partnership audit rules affect basis examinations

NASBA Details

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify partnerships and partners at risk for audit
  • Determine how liabilities affect a partner's basis calculation
  • Ascertain the difference between recourse and nonrecourse debt
  • Decide steps to take to prepare for an IRS audit of a partner's basis

  • Field of Study: Taxes
  • Level of Knowledge: Intermediate
  • Advance Preparation: None
  • Teaching Method: Seminar/Lecture
  • Delivery Method: Group-Internet (via computer)
  • Attendance Monitoring Method: Attendance is monitored electronically via a participant's PIN and through a series of attendance verification prompts displayed throughout the program
  • Prerequisite: Three years+ business or public firm experience preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers or accountants. Specific knowledge and understanding of pass-through taxation, including taxation of partnerships, S corporations and their respective partners and shareholders.

Strafford Publications, Inc. is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of Accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE Credits. Complaints regarding registered sponsons may be submitted to NASBA through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

IRS Approved Provider

Strafford is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).