Goodbye TEFRA, Hello New Partnership Audit Rules

By: Amanda Wilson

Last week, President Obama signed into law the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015.  As I mentioned in a prior post (found here), the budget bill contained a proposal to revamp how partnerships are audited.  Specifically, TEFRA (the 1982 Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act) is out.   The new partnership audit rules go into effect for partnership returns filed for partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017. read more