Authors: Jerome Ostrov, 
                 Kevin Kaiser, 
                 Robert Collins

Covers important real estate tax law and estate planning issues. There are more than 200 examples that explain concepts that, because of complexity or other difficulties are hard to absorb in narrative form only.

Also covered is how the intersecting tax and estate planning issues affect non-U.S. citizens who find themselves subject to U.S. taxation and estate planning issues of interest to U.S. citizens with interests abroad. Transfer tax and recordation tax issues are also discussed.

Chapter 1        The Personal Residence
Chapter 2        Real Estate Partnerships
Chapter 3        Limited Liability Companies
Chapter 4        Passive Loss and At-Risk Limitations
Chapter 5        Real Estate Investment Trusts
Chapter 6        Disposition and Restructuring of "Distressed" and "Awkwardly Held" Real Estate
Chapter 7        Exchanges of Like-Kind Property and Involuntary Conversions
Chapter 8        Construction, Improvement and Leasing of Real Estate;
                          Associated Deductions, Depreciation, and Credits
Chapter 9        Capital Gains Treatment and Installment Sales Provisions
Chapter 10      Charitable Gifts of Real Estate
Chapter 11      Asset Protection
Chapter 12      Exempt Organization Ownership of Real Estate
Chapter 13      Estate and Gift Planning with Real Estate - General Principles
Chapter 14      Estate Planning with Real Estate - Valuation and Discounting Issues
Chapter 15      International Tax and Estate Planning

Author: Robert Ricketts and Larry Tunnell

Discusses the complex issues involving partnership taxation with utmost clarity. It uses hundreds of illustrative examples, practice observations, helpful charts and insightful explanations to make even the most difficult concepts understandable. The book reflects the authors' penchant for communicating the pertinent facts in very direct language and creating a context for understanding the multifaceted issues and applying them to practice.

This new edition fully reflects all the latest developments in this complex area. These include changes affecting:

• partnership basis adjustments
• transfers to partnerships of property with built-in losses
• sale of an interest in a partnership with built-in loss property
• disproportionate distributions from partnerships with built-in loss property
• expensing and amortization of partnership organizational expenses
• partnership treatment of the deduction for domestic production activities
• recognition of cancellation-of-indebtedness income, and more

In six parts, Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs covers the critical aspects of this complicated area, with individual parts focusing on partnership characteristics, funding, taxation of operations, partner's share of partnership debt, disposition of partnership interest, and distributions. From choice-of-entity considerations to sales and liquidations, the entire breadth of partnership and LLC taxation is covered. Special attention is given throughout to the complex inter-workings of rules that bind, tax and control these entity operations.

In the book's first part focused on preliminary considerations, the basic underpinnings are presented covering key areas such as the "check the box" rules, "anti-abuse" rules, investment joint venture rules, the application of partnership taxation to LLCs, liability issues, passive loss limitations, audit issues, self-employment taxes, IRS classification, tax year and accounting method selection, and much more.

The second part of Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs looks at property contributions and disguised sales, transactions between partner and partnership, and formation and start-up expenses. A special summary table for the tax treatment of pre-opening expenses is included.

Next, the central core of the book explains the taxation of operations including partnership income rules, the pass-through concept, and the partner's share of income and debt. Specific rules, reporting and compliance issues are thoroughly addressed. Form 1065 and schedules L, M-1, M-2, K and K-1 are also explained.

Part four covers partner's share of partnership debt, while disposition of a partnership interest is the subject of the fifth part of Practical Guide to Partnerships and LLCs. This section covers the amount and character of

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Rotch Library - NA7555.B6 C38 2018