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Tax Planning and Reporting for Real Estate Investment Trusts

Note: CPE credit is not offered on this program

A live 90-minute premium CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A

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Tuesday, June 17, 2025

1:00pm-2:30pm EDT, 10:00am-11:30am PDT

Early Registration Discount Deadline, Friday, May 23, 2025

or call 1-800-926-7926

This CLE/CPE webinar will provide tax counsel and advisers with an in-depth analysis of key tax considerations and related issues for real estate investment trusts (REITs). The panel will discuss the tax treatment of REITs, IRS Final Regulations for Domestically-Controlled REITs, IRS guidance for REIT distributions, tax issues for investors, and reporting requirements, as well as offer tax planning strategies for taxpayers.

Description

Fund managers and investors must consider various issues when complying with their REIT tax obligations. Any missteps in tax planning and reporting for REITs can significantly impact tax liability and potential audit risk.

Tax counsel and advisers must have a thorough understanding of REIT formation and investment, including rules relating to REIT subsidiaries (QRSs and TRSs) and REITs that own partnership and LLC interests. REITs must satisfy complex IRS requirements regarding the organization of the entity, its income, assets, and distribution of income, as well as its ownership base.

In addition, last year, the IRS released final regulations for REITs for determining whether a qualified investment entity is domestically controlled for purposes of U.S. tax exemptions and includes guidance on what constitutes "indirect" ownership by foreign persons for purposes of the domestically controlled exception.

Listen as our authoritative panel guides you through navigating the complex tax rules regarding the tax treatment of REIT transactions.

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Outline

  1. REITs
    1. Organizational requirements
    2. Income and asset tests
    3. Distribution requirements
  2. Qualified vs. taxable subsidiaries
  3. Investor taxation
  4. IRS Final Regulations for Domestically-Controlled REITs
  5. Best practices for confronting and managing risk

Benefits

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • What are the organizational and operational tax rules for REITs?
  • What are the limitations and benefits of REIT status?
  • What is the impact of recent IRS final regulations for domestically-controlled REITs?
  • What are best practices for confronting and mitigating risk?

Faculty

Anderson, Paige
Paige Anderson

Partner
Vinson & Elkins

Ms. Anderson’s practice focuses on the federal income tax aspects of business transactions, particularly in the...  |  Read More

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