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About the Course
Introduction
This course will provide tax advisers with an advanced guide to calculating and allocating passive activity losses. The panel will go beyond the basics on the passive activity rules and will offer a comprehensive, practical guide to mastering the complexities of calculating passive activity losses for reporting. The panel will review preparing schedules for tracking loss restrictions, carryforwards, and grouping and allocating losses among multiple passive activities.
Description
The passive activity loss limitation rules have long challenged tax advisers and compliance professionals. Recognizing whether a taxpayer's involvement in an activity rises to the level of material participation not only confuses taxpayers and their advisers but taxpayers' positions are frequently subject to IRS examination and challenge.
Classifying an activity as active or passive is just one challenge facing tax advisers. Once the taxpayer's activities have been identified as being subject to passive activity loss limitations, the tax adviser must accurately report those activities on Form 8582, including supplemental worksheets and disclosures.
Tax professionals must navigate available elections, ensure that the grouping of activities conforms to Treasury regulation rules, and maintain accurate suspended loss carry-forward schedules.
When a taxpayer has significant real estate investments, incorrectly sorting out which losses can offset ordinary income from business activities can have costly tax consequences. The IRS continues to focus on passive income and losses since the imposition of the 3.8 percent net investment income tax.
Listen as our experienced panel provides a comprehensive and practical guide to the mechanics of reporting passive activity loss limitations on Form 8582, using detailed illustrations and sample completed forms to offer useful tools for mastering the reporting mechanics of passive activity losses.
Presented By
Mr. Alfonsi brings over 40 years of experience in tax and advisory services, focusing his practice on business valuation, economic damages, and tax planning and consulting for pass-through entities. He is a recognized financial expert in federal and various state circuit courts across the country. Mr. Alfonsi graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a concentration in Accounting. He also has a Master's of Science in Taxation from Walsh College, where he was the Research Institute of America Graduate Tax Award recipient. In his spare time, Mr. Alfonsi is an adjunct professor at his Alma Mater, teaching master’s degree courses in taxation and valuation.
Mr. Castelli's areas of focus are tax planning
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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).
Date + Time
- event
Thursday, June 29, 2023
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
- Identifying passive activities to be reported on Form 8582
- Introduction
- Material participation rules
- Management and investment activities
- Rental activities
- Grouping rules and available elections
- Real estate professional
- Practical considerations
- Form 8582
- NIIT reporting issues
The panel will explore such topics as:
- Completing Form 8582 Worksheets
- Properly coding passive activities, including real estate professional substantiation
- Reporting passive activity losses from publicly traded partnerships
- Grouping disclosure rules and regrouping activities to potentially meet the material participation standards for non-passive activity
- NIIT calculations and exclusions
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Recognize proper reporting and preparation of Form 8582
- Identify whether a taxpayer's activity is active participation
- Identify whether a taxpayer's activity is passive participation
- Determine accurate reporting for a suspended loss carry-forward schedule
- 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 at mid-level within the organization, preparing complex tax forms and schedules, supervising other preparers/accountants. The webinar assumes specific knowledge and understanding of the Section 469 Passive Activity Rules, the material participation rules, identifying the tests for determining real estate professionals, recognizing Publicly Traded Partnership K-1 schedules; familiarity with the grouping disclosure rules, familiarity with the Net Investment Income Tax (NIIT).
BARBRI, 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.
BARBRI is an IRS-approved continuing education provider offering certified courses for Enrolled Agents (EA) and Tax Return Preparers (RTRP).
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