Rounding Off to Whole Dollars

You may round off cents to whole dollars on your return and accompanying schedules. To do so, drop amounts under 50 cents and increase amounts from 50 to 99 cents to the next higher dollar.

Recordkeeping

The partnership must keep its records as long as they may be needed for the administration of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code. If the consolidated audit procedures of sections 6221 through 6233 apply, the partnership usually must keep records that support an item of income, deduction, or credit on the partnership return for 3 years from the date the return is due or is filed, whichever is later. If the consolidated audit procedures do not apply, these records usually must be kept for 3 years from the date each partner's return is due or is filed, whichever is later. Keep records that verify the partnership's basis in property for as long as they are needed to figure the basis of the original or replacement property.

The partnership should also keep copies of all returns it has filed. They help in preparing future returns and in making computations when filing an amended return.

Amended Return

To correct an error on a Form 1065 already filed, file an amended Form 1065 and check box G(5) on page 1. If the income, deductions, credits, or other information provided to any partner on Schedule K-1 are incorrect, file an amended Schedule K-1 (Form 1065) for that partner with the amended Form 1065. Also give a copy of the amended Schedule K-1 to that partner. Check box I(2) on the Schedule K-1 to indicate that it is an amended Schedule K-1.

Exception:   If you are filing an amended partnership return and you answered Yes to Question 4 in Schedule B, the tax matters partner must file Form 8082, Notice of Inconsistent Treatment or Administrative Adjustment Request (AAR).

A change to the partnership's Federal return may affect its state return. This includes changes made as a result of an examination of the partnership return by the IRS. For more information, contact the state tax agency for the state in which the partnership return is filed.

Other Forms, Returns, and Statements That May Be Required

• Forms W-2 and W-3, Wage and Tax Statement; and Transmittal of Wage and Tax Statements. Use these forms to report wages, tips, other compensation, and withheld income, social security and Medicare taxes for employees.
• Form 720, Quarterly Federal Excise Tax Return. Use Form 720 to report environmental excise taxes, communications and air transportation taxes, fuel taxes, luxury tax on passenger vehicles, manufacturers' taxes, ship passenger tax, and certain other excise taxes.
• Form 940 or Form 940-EZ, Employer's Annual Federal Unemployment (FUTA) Tax Return. The partnership may be liable for FUTA tax and may have to file Form 940 or Form 940-EZ if it paid wages of $1,500 or more in any calendar quarter during the calendar year (or the preceding calendar year) or one or more employees worked for the partnership for some part of a day in any 20 different weeks during the calendar year (or the preceding calendar year).
• Form 941, Employer's Quarterly Federal Tax Return. Employers must file this form quarterly to report income tax withheld on wages and employer and employee social security and Medicare taxes. Agricultural employers must file Form 943, Employer's Annual Tax Return for Agricultural Employees, instead of Form 941, to report income tax withheld and employer and employee social security and Medicare taxes on farmworkers.
• Form 945, Annual Return of Withheld Federal Income Tax. Use this form to report income tax withheld from nonpayroll payments, including pensions, annuities, individual retirement accounts (IRAs), gambling winnings, and backup withholding.

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• Forms 1042 and 1042-S, Annual Withholding Tax Return for U.S. Source Income of Foreign Persons; and Foreign Person's U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding. Use these forms to report and send withheld tax on payments or distributions made to nonresident alien individuals, foreign partnerships, or foreign corporations to the extent these payments or distributions constitute gross income from sources within the United States that is not effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business. A domestic partnership must also withhold tax on a foreign partner's distributive share of such income, including amounts that are not actually distributed. Withholding on amounts not previously distributed to a foreign partner must be made and paid over by the earlier of (a) the date on which Schedule K-1 is sent to that partner or (b) the 15th day of the 3rd month after the end of the partnership's tax year. For more information, see sections 1441 and 1442 and Pub. 515, Withholding of Tax on Nonresident Aliens and Foreign Corporations.
• Form 1042-T, Annual Summary and Transmittal of Forms 1042-S. Use Form 1042-T to transmit paper Forms 1042-S to the IRS.
• Form 1096, Annual Summary and Transmittal of U.S. Information Returns.
• Form 1098, Mortgage Interest Statement. Use this form to report the receipt from any individual of $600 or more of mortgage interest (including points) in the course of the partnership's trade or business.
• Forms 1099-A, B, INT, LTC, MISC, MSA, OID, R, and S. You may have to file these information returns to report acquisitions or abandonments of secured property; proceeds from broker and barter exchange transactions; interest payments; payments of long-term care and accelerated death benefits; miscellaneous income payments; distributions from an Archer MSA; original issue discount; distributions from pensions, annuities, retirement or profit-sharing plans, IRAs, insurance contracts, etc.; and proceeds from real estate transactions. Also, use certain of these returns to report amounts that were received as a nominee on behalf of another person.

  For more information, see the Instructions for Forms 1099, 1098, 5498, and W-2G.

  Important:   Every partnership must file Forms 1099-MISC if, in the course of its trade or business, it makes payments of rents, commissions, or other fixed or determinable income (see section 6041) totaling $600 or more to any one person during the calendar year.

• Form 5471, Information Return of U.S. Persons With Respect to Certain Foreign Corporations. A partnership may have to file Form 5471 if it (a) controls a foreign corporation; or (b) acquires, disposes of, or owns 5% or more in value of the outstanding stock of a foreign corporation; or (c) owns stock in a corporation that is a controlled foreign corporation for an uninterrupted period of 30 days or more during any tax year of the foreign corporation, and it owned that stock on the last day of that year.
• Form 5713, International Boycott Report, is used by persons having operations in, or related to, a boycotting country, company, or national of a country, to report those operations and figure the loss of certain tax benefits. The partnership must give each partner a copy of the Form 5713 filed by the partnership if there has been participation in, or cooperation with, an international boycott.
• Form 8264, Application for Registration of a Tax Shelter. Tax shelter organizers must file Form 8264 to get a tax shelter registration number from the IRS.
• Form 8271, Investor Reporting of Tax Shelter Registration Number. Partnerships that have acquired an interest in a tax shelter that is required to be registered use Form 8271 to report the tax shelter's registration number. Attach Form 8271 to any return on which a deduction, credit, loss, or other tax benefit attributable to a tax shelter is taken or any income attributable to a tax shelter is reported.
• Form 8275, Disclosure Statement. File Form 8275 to disclose items or positions, except those contrary to a regulation, that are not otherwise adequately disclosed on a tax return. The disclosure is made to avoid the parts of the accuracy-related penalty imposed for disregard of rules or substantial understatement of tax. Form 8275 is also used for disclosures relating to preparer penalties for understatements due to unrealistic positions or disregard of rules.
• Form 8275-R, Regulation Disclosure Statement, is used to disclose any item on a tax return for which a position has been taken that is contrary to Treasury regulations.
• Forms 8288 and 8288-A, U.S. Withholding Tax Return for Dispositions by Foreign Persons of U.S. Real Property Interests; and Statement of Withholding on Dispositions by Foreign Persons of U.S. Real Property Interests. Use these forms to report and send withheld tax on the sale of U.S. real property by a foreign person. See section 1445 and the related regulations for additional information.
• Form 8300, Report of Cash Payments Over $10,000 Received in a Trade or Business. File this form to report the receipt of more than $10,000 in cash or foreign currency in one transaction or a series of related transactions.
• Form 8308, Report of a Sale or Exchange of Certain Partnership Interests, is used by a partnership to report the sale or exchange by a partner of all or part of a partnership interest where any money or other property received in exchange for the interest is attributable to unrealized receivables or inventory items.
• Form 8594, Asset Acquisition Statement Under Section 1060. Both the seller and buyer of a group of assets that makes up a trade or business must use this form to report such a sale if goodwill or going concern value attaches, or could attach, to such assets.
• Form 8697, Interest Computation Under the Look-Back Method for Completed Long-Term Contracts. Partnerships that are not closely held use this form to figure the interest due or to be refunded under the look-back method of section 460(b)(2) on certain long-term contracts that are accounted for under either the percentage of completion-capitalized cost method or the percentage of completion method. Closely held partnerships should see the instructions on page 30 for line 25, item 10, of Schedule K-1 for details on the Form 8697 information they must provide to their partners.
• Forms 8804, 8805, and 8813, Annual Return for Partnership Withholding Tax (Section 1446); Foreign Partner's Information Statement of Section 1446 Withholding Tax; and Partnership Withholding Tax Payment (Section 1446). File Forms 8804 and 8805 if the partnership had effectively connected gross income and foreign partners for the tax year. Use Form 8813 to send installment payments of withheld tax based on effectively connected taxable income allocable to foreign partners.

  Exception:   Publicly traded partnerships that do not elect to pay tax based on effectively connected taxable income do not file these forms. They must instead withhold tax on distributions to foreign partners and report and send payments using Forms 1042 and 1042-S. See Rev. Proc. 89-31, 1989-1 C.B. 895 and Rev. Proc. 92-66, 1992-2 C.B. 428 for more information.

• Form 8832, Entity Classification Election. Except for a business entity automatically classified as a corporation, a business entity with at least two members may choose to be classified either as a partnership or an association taxable as a corporation. A domestic eligible entity with at least two members that does not file Form 8832 is classified under the default rules as a partnership. However, a foreign eligible entity with at least two members is classified under the default rules as a partnership only if at least one member does not have limited liability. File Form 8832 only if the entity does not want to be classified under these default rules or if it wants to change its classification.
• Form 8865, Return of U.S. Person With Respect To Certain Foreign Partnerships. A domestic partnership may have to file Form 8865 if it:
  1. Controlled a foreign partnership (for example, it owned more than a 50% direct or indirect interest in the partnership).
  2. Owned at least a 10% direct or indirect interest in a foreign partnership while U.S. persons controlled that partnership.
  3. Had an acquisition, disposition, or change in proportional interest of a foreign partnership that:
     1. Increased its direct interest to at least 10% or reduced its direct interest of at least 10% to less than 10%.
     2. Changed its direct interest by at least a 10% interest.
  4. Contributed property to a foreign partnership in exchange for a partnership interest if:
     1. Immediately after the contribution, the partnership owned, directly or indirectly, at least a 10% interest in the foreign partnership; or
     2. The fair market value of the property the partnership contributed to the foreign partnership in exchange for a partnership interest, when added to other contributions of property made to the foreign partnership during the preceding 12-month period, exceeds $100,000.

     Also, the domestic partnership may have to file Form 8865 to report certain dispositions by a foreign partnership of property it previously contributed to that foreign partnership if it was a partner at the time of the disposition.

  For more details, including penalties for failing to file Form 8865, see Form 8865 and its separate instructions.

• Form 8866, Interest Computation Under the Look-Back Method for Property Depreciated Under the Income Forecast Method. Partnerships that are not closely held use this form to figure the interest due or to be refunded under the look-back method of section 167(g)(2) for certain property placed in service after September 13, 1995, depreciated under the income forecast method. Closely held partnerships should see the instructions on page 30 for line 25, item 19, of Schedule K-1 for details on the Form 8866 information they must provide to their partners.
• Form 8876, Excise Tax on Structured Settlement Factoring Transactions. Use Form 8876 to report and pay the 40% excise tax imposed under section 5891.
• Statement of section 743(b) basis adjustments. If the partnership is required to adjust the bases of partnership properties under section 743(b) because of a section 754 election on the sale or exchange of a partnership interest or on the death of a partner, the partnership must attach a statement to its return for the year of the transfer. The statement must list:
  1. The name and identifying number of the transferee partner,
  2. The computation of the adjustment, and
  3. The partnership properties to which the adjustment has been allocated.
• Tax Shelter Disclosure Statement. For each reportable tax shelter transaction entered into prior to January 1, 2003, in which the partnership participated, directly or indirectly, it must attach a disclosure statement to its return for each year ending with or within the tax year of any partner whose Federal income tax liability is affected or reasonably expected to be affected by the partnership's participation in the transaction. In addition, for the first tax year a disclosure statement is attached to its return, the partnership must send a copy of the statement to the Internal Revenue Service, LM:PFTG:OTSA, Large & Mid-Size Business Division, 1111 Constitution Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20224. If a transaction becomes a reportable transaction after the partnership files its return, it must attach the statement to the following year's return (whether or not any partner's tax liability is affected for that year). The partnership is considered to have indirectly participated if it participated as a partner in a partnership or if it knows or has reason to know that the tax benefits claimed were derived from a reportable transaction.

  Disclosure is required for a reportable transaction that is a listed transaction. A transaction is a listed transaction if it is the same as or substantially similar to a transaction that the IRS has determined to be a tax avoidance transaction and has identified as a listed transaction by notice, regulation, or other published guidance. See Notice 2001-51, 2001-34 I.R.B. 190, for transactions identified by the IRS as listed transactions. The listed transactions identified in this notice will be updated in future published guidance.

  See Temporary Regulations section 1.6011-4T for more details, including:

  1. Definitions of reportable transaction, listed transaction, and substantially similar.
  2. Form and content of the disclosure statement.
  3. Filing requirements for the disclosure statement.

For reportable transactions entered into after December 31, 2002, use Form 8886, Reportable Transaction Disclosure Statement, to disclose information for each reportable transaction in which the partnership participated, directly or indirectly. Form 8886 must be filed for each tax year ending with or within the tax year of any partner whose Federal income tax liability is affected or reasonably expected to be affected by the partnership's participation in the transaction. The following are reportable transactions.

• Any transaction the same as or substantially similar to tax avoidance transactions identified by the IRS.
• Any transaction offered under conditions of confidentiality.
• Any transaction for which the partnership has contractual protection against disallowance of the tax benefits.
• Any transaction resulting in a loss of at least $5 million in any single year or $10 million in any combination of years.
• Any transaction resulting in a book-tax difference of more than $10 million on a gross basis.
• Any transaction resulting in a tax credit of more than $250,000, if the partnership held the asset generating the credit for less than 45 days.

See the Instructions for Form 8886 for more details.

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