Taxpayers' Tax Election Regrets
In a variety of contexts, taxpayers can file tax elections that dictate their tax treatment. After filing or not filing a given tax election, a taxpayer might later feel regret.
Volume 77, Issue 1
In a variety of contexts, taxpayers can file tax elections that dictate their tax treatment. After filing or not filing a given tax election, a taxpayer might later feel regret.
In the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), Congress eliminated the deduction for research and experimental (R&E) expenditures that has been a part of the federal Tax Code since 1954.
Section 704(b) and its Regulations allows partnerships a great deal of flexibility on how items of income and deduction are allocated to partners. This flexibility has been heavily criticized over th…