Partnership Losses in Excess of Basis: Preparing for the IRS' Latest Audit Campaign
Preparing for an IRS Audit of Partner's Basis: Examination Tips

Course Details
- smart_display Format
On-Demand
- signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level
Intermediate
- work Practice Area
Tax Preparer
- event Date
Friday, September 27, 2024
- schedule Time
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- timer Program Length
110 minutes
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BARBRI is a NASBA CPE sponsor and this 110-minute webinar is accredited for 2.0 CPE credits.
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BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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

Mr. Horwitz has over 35 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in the representation of clients in civil and criminal tax cases, including civil audits and appeals, tax collection matters, criminal investigations, administrative hearings and in civil and criminal trials and appeals in federal and state courts. He has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Taxation Section of the State Bar of California and was Chair of the Taxation Section for 2015-2016 year. Mr. Horwitzwas previously Chair of the Tax Procedure and Litigation Committee of the State Bar Taxation Section. Prior to joining Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., Mr. Horwitz was with a boutique tax controversy firm in Orange County, where he represented clients in civil and criminal tax cases in the U.S. Courts of Appeal, U.S. district courts, California superior courts, and before the Internal Revenue Service, the California Franchise Tax Board, the Board of Equalization, the Employment Development Department and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. He has been a speaker on tax matters at the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute, the Annual Meeting of the Taxation Section of the California Bar and the California State Bar Annual Meeting. Mr. Horwitz has authored articles on tax law that have appeared in diverse publications, including Tax Notes, the Federal Lawyer (the publication of the Federal Bar Association), and the California Tax Lawyer. His monograph in “Responsible Persons and Fiduciary Liability” was published in the Proceedings of the New York University 75th Institute on Federal Taxation. Mr. Horwitz was an invited delegate to the 2015 U.S. Tax Court Judicial Conference. He is a member of the Planning Committee of the UCLA Tax Controversy Institute. Mr. Horwitz is a member of the bar in California and in Illinois. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Seventh, Ninth and Federal Circuits, the U.S. District Courts for the Central, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and the U.S. Tax Court. He was named a Southern California Super Lawyer 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Mr. Stigile specializes in tax controversies as well as tax, business, and international tax. His representation includes Federal and state tax controversy matters and tax litigation, including sensitive tax-related examinations and investigations for individuals, business enterprises, partnerships, limited liability companies, and corporations. His practice also includes complex civil tax examinations, administrative appeals and tax collection proceedings (where he is widely respected for achieving meaningful resolutions of difficult tax collection issues). Mr. Stigile frequently writes and lectures on topics involving taxation.
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
- IRS' partnership basis compliance campaign
- Determining outside basis
- Tax basis capital
- Liabilities
- Section 743(b) basis adjustments
- Handling past errors
- BBA partnerships
- Amended returns
- Unresolved differences
- Handling the IRS examination
- 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.

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