Tax Reporting and Reconciliation of Hedge Fund and Other Alternative Investment Fund K-1s

Navigating Footnotes and Tying Information to the Tax Return

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Recording of a 110-minute CPE webinar with Q&A

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Conducted on Thursday, July 14, 2022

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Course Materials

This course will provide tax advisers and professionals with the tools needed to accurately reconcile complex Form K-1 for hedge funds and other alternative investments.

Description

For many K-1s received by taxpayers, reporting the pass-through items of income and loss is a fairly straightforward process. However, the K-1 often requires the tax preparer to refer to information from numerous footnotes for hedge funds and other multi-fund pass-through entities. A Schedule K-1 from an alternative investment fund can easily exceed 50 pages or more, including details for individual transactions among the various funds or investments held.

These K-1s generally have important tax reporting information in the extensive footnotes following the standard page 1 boxes listing income, deductions, credits, and distributions. Tax professionals must identify the type of fund the K-1 is generated from and use the information found in the footnotes to prepare an accurate and complete return for clients.

Listen as our experienced panel provides detailed and practical guidance to help tax professionals correctly reconcile tax information from these complex K-1 schedules.

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Outline

  1. Brief background and history of hedge funds
  2. Overview of the investor, trader, and fund of funds
  3. Treatment of income and expenses from hedge fund K-1s
  4. Differences between book and tax income, Item L of Schedule K-1
  5. Tax capital reporting requirements
  6. Reconciliation schedule to tie fund of fund K-1s to tax return
  7. Footnotes and how to decipher
  8. Go through sample K-1s for each type of fund
  9. Discussion of changes in K-1 reporting requirements

Benefits

The panel will review these and other relevant topics:

  • Understand the type of K-1 you are receiving (i.e., investor fund, trader fund, fund of funds) and how to reflect the income, losses, and deductions to report accurately
  • Identifying K-1 information that the tax preparer must enter on a return area other than Schedule E, page 2
  • How to decipher K-1 footnotes to ensure proper treatment of critical pieces of information
  • Prepare a schedule to reconcile current-year hedge fund K-1 reporting information to the investors' monthly statements

Faculty

Layman, Lindsey
Lindsey Layman, CPA
Senior Manager
Eisner Advisory Group

Ms. Layman is a Senior Tax Manager in the Financial Services Group with more than 10 years of experience. She provides...  |  Read More

Ross, Laura
Laura L. Ross, CPA, MST
Partner
Eisner Advisory Group

Ms. Ross is a Partner in the firm’s Financial Services Group. She has extensive expertise in accounting and tax...  |  Read More

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