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Happy Holidays! IRS Gifts us with Alternative Rules under the Centralized Partnership Audit Regime

December 20, 2022 (3 min read)

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA) (Pub. L. No. 114-74) changed the audit and collection procedures for partnerships, effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2017. Congress intended that the BBA would simplify partnership audit procedures (at least from the IRS’s perspective) and thus increase collections. IRS recently released final regulations under I.R.C. § 6241(11), which excepts certain partnership-related items from the centralized partnership audit regime created by the BBA and which sets forth alternative rules that will apply to the examination of excepted items by the IRS. 87 Fed. Reg. 75,473 (Dec. 9, 2022).

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