IRS Drubbed In Tax Court On Partnership Interest Deductions
As it turned out, William Lipnick never received any of those debt-financed distributions. The distributions had gone to his father Maurice Lipnick, who had transferred some of the interests to Willam during his lifetime with the balance passing after his death in 2013.
This made William’s relationship to the partnership debt different than his fathers. To William, the debt was part of his acquisition basis in the partnership. For Maurice the debt traced to however he happened to spend the money – likely making it investment interest. For William, the debt traces to his acquisition of the partnership interest making it deductible against the partnership income allocations.
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