Partnership Losses in Excess of Basis: Preparing for the IRS' New Audit Campaign
Note: CLE credit is not offered on this program
Recording of a 110-minute CPE webinar with Q&A
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.
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
Faculty
Robert Horwitz
Principal
Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez
Mr. Horwitz has over 35 years of experience as a tax attorney specializing in the representation of clients in civil... | Read More
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.
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Cory Stigile
Principal
Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez
Mr. Stigile specializes in tax controversies as well as tax, business, and international tax. His representation... | Read More
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.
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Philipp Behrendt
Attorney
Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez
Mr. Behrendt is an Associate at Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., licensed in California as well as in Germany... | Read More
Mr. Behrendt is an Associate at Hochman Salkin Toscher Perez P.C., licensed in California as well as in Germany and assists in advising clients in civil and criminal tax controversies as well as international money laundering investigations stemming from tax avoidance structures. He also focuses on the technical aspects involved in advising voluntary disclosures in connection with DeFis, NFTs, and other crypto assets.
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