As innocuous as it sounds, the Form 3115 is a tax form like no other. A Form 3115 that is inadvertently omitted from a tax return filing can result in sizable differences in tax and trigger significant tax penalties and interest. Given the amounts that are often reported on the Form 3115, errors could cost…Continue readingIRS Expands Sec. 9100 Relief for Late Forms 3115
Category: Accounting Method
Accounting methods and method changes.
While it may sound like a boring topic, the accounting change and method rules are anything but boring. They present opportunities that can help defer and, in some cases, eliminate, taxes. Whether changing from an impermissible method, fixing an accounting method error, or taking advantage of a late automatic change, we can help.
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Tax is often about timing. Timing issues are those where the taxpayer defers the requirement to pay taxes to a later date. Preferably a later date that is many, many years in the future. The hope is that the taxpayer can retain the amounts that would have been paid in tax today and use the…Continue readingTax Planning for Contingent Loans
If you buy, subdivide and sell real estate, can you seller-finance the sales and report the gain over a long period of time? The answer is generally yes, but advance planning is needed. The court addresses this in Joyner Family Limited Partnership v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2019-159. Facts & Procedural History The taxpayers purchased land…Continue readingSale of Trailers Doesn’t Qualify for Installment Sale Treatment
A consistent mistake on a tax return for more than two years may require an accounting method change to correct. The IRS has procedures for making these elections, which generally require a timely filed tax return. But what if you miss the filing deadline–are you out of luck? Private Letter Ruling (“PLR”) 201850013 provides the…Continue readingHow to Correct Late Accounting Method Changes
Given the potential for the adjustments to trigger extremely large tax liabilities, accounting method changes made by the IRS on audit can be doomsday scenarios for unwary taxpayers. In Nebeker v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo. 2016-155, the court addressed a common situation where the IRS makes an adjustment on audit that is an accounting method, but…Continue readingIRS Audit Adjustments That Change Accounting Methods