On December 21, 2018, IRS and Treasury issued final regulations implementing the partnership audit regime (T.D. 9844). The final regulations largely adopt, with some changes, the proposed regulations issued in August 2018. By issuing almost 200 pages of preamble, the final regulations provide extensive discussion of which comments were incorporated and why others were not. Likely, IRS is thinking ahead to litigation over the validity of the regulations by issuing such broad discussions of the comment process. The most significant changes to the proposed regulations are changes to the definition of partnership-related items and changes allowing administrative adjustment of partnership-related items.
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