Partnership Income Taxation (Concepts and Insights) - Softcover

Repetti, James; Lyons, William; Luke, Charlene

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1685613713 ISBN 13: 9781685613716

Publisher: Foundation Press, 2023

Synopsis

This book provides the simplest possible introduction of partnership taxation to students and beginning practitioners trying to understand the taxation of partnerships. Partnership taxation is an intricate body of law with the result that any “simplified” description of its rules would be so misleading as to be useless. We have therefore tried to make the subject accessible not by paraphrasing the rules, but by including over one hundred and forty examples of the rules that are as straightforward as possible. The text and examples focus on simple partnerships and limited liability companies that hold few assets and engage in routine transactions. The text places the rules in context by pointing out the purposes of the statute and regulations and presenting background information about practical matters such as how partnerships maintain capital accounts and how nonrecourse financing works. Using many examples, it then shows the operation of the rules in everyday cases encountered by practitioners.

This is not a reference book: many interesting and difficult issues have been ignored. Some matters, such as the application of § 736 to noncash distributions and the taxation of tiered partnerships, are not discussed at all. Most of the points that are addressed, however, are di(more...)

Edition details

• Publisher: Foundation Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1685613713
• ISBN 13: 9781685613716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336