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Tax

Upcoming 2017 Tax Deadlines


Posted on June 23, 2017 by Richard Berkowitz

July 31:                        Deadline for calendar-year Employee Benefit Plan sponsors to file Forms 5500, 5500-EZ or 5500-SF, Annual Return/Report of Employee Benefit Plan, or receive an automatic extension to file on November 15 July 31:                        Due date for businesses to file 2nd quarter 2017 payroll tax returns and federal unemployment tax September 15:            Due date for […]

Partnerships Must Adapt to New IRS Audit Rules, Liabilities at the Entity Level


Posted on June 23, 2017 by Richard Berkowitz

For more than three decades, IRS partnership audits have operated under the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 (TEFRA), which required individual partners to pay their share of a partnership’s tax underpayments identified in an IRS audit, unless the partnership elected to be taxed at the entity level.  Since TEFRA’s enactment, partnerships have proliferated […]