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8 CPE

Surgent's Advanced Critical Tax Issues for Limited Liability Companies and Partnerships

This is a text-based course

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8 CPE

This is a text-based course. To receive credit, you are required to review all content and achieve a minimum score of 70% on the final exam.

The purpose of this course is to provide an in-depth discussion of selected advanced-level issues affecting LLCs and LLPs.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the tax and non-tax advantages and disadvantages of LLCs and partnerships
  • Describe how inside and outside basis is affected by liabilities, recourse and nonrecourse
  • Discuss the impact of cash and property distributions
  • Explain the tax consequences of a sale of an interest and distinguish such consequences from the tax consequences when a partnership or LLC is acquired or merges into another LLC or partnership
  • Complete a case study to improve advocacy skills before the IRS

Major Topics

  • Coverage of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
  • Single-member limited liability companies as an alternative to subsidiaries
  • Cancellation of indebtedness: rules and regulations
  • How the IRS views members or partners for Social Security purposes
  • Special problems when forming an LLC
  • Debt issues and problems in structuring LLCs and LLPs, including loan guarantee issues, recourse and nonrecourse debt, the at-risk basis rules, and new regulations restricting “bottom dollar” guarantees
  • Distributions: is it just a disguised sale? New regulations eliminate certain tax-deferred leveraged partnership transactions
  • Death or retirement of a member or partner -- Understanding the alternatives
  • Step-up in basis issues -- How to make the computations and elections
  • Property transactions between the LLC/LLP and its members or partners -- Inbound and outbound transactions: what to do with built-in gain or loss property
  • Partnership losses: when are they deductible?  See, in particular, TCJA and CARES override
  • Material participation rules for LLC members and limited partners: how they affect passive loss issues
  • Continuation and termination of an LLC/partnership in the context of a merger or acquisition
  • Sales of an LLC Interest -- holding period, and hot asset issues
  • Impact of the tax on investment income on the sale of an interest in a partnership or LLC
  • Repeal of technical termination of partnership provision
  • Impact of Soroban Capital Partners LP, 161 TC No.12

CPE Credits Available

8 CPE
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Things to Know About This Course

Course Level

  • Advanced

Professional Area of Focus

  • Partnership Tax
  • Tax

Prerequisites

A basic course in LLCs/partnerships or equivalent knowledge and experience

Advanced Preparation

None

Intended Audience

Accounting and Financial Professionals with clients using the LLC or LLP structure who need to understand advanced issues, problems, and planning strategies

Provider

Surgent CPE

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