Total Credits: 1.0 including 1.0 CPE
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
Program Description
This program examines the tax consequences of the transfer of property, including partnership interests, between spouses incident to a divorce. As part of this examination, this program will address the basis implications and tangential issues such as what happens with net operating loss carryovers and passive loss carryovers.
Program level: Basic
Advance preparation needed: No advance preparation needed.
Delivery method: QAS (Quality Assurance Service) Self-Study
Recommended field of study: Taxes
Length of access: This course must be completed within one year of the purchase date.
Revision date: January 27, 2025; Reviewed by Michael J. Cohen
CPE Credits: 1.0 credit hour
CLE Credit
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Negative Tax Capital Accounts And Divorce (669.4 KB) | 16 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Charles R. Levun, JD, CPA, is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. He is also the consultant to the Wolters Kluwer, CCH, Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide, for which he was the co-author of the monthly “Partner’s Perspective” column for its entire term of publication (1987-2020), and was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent Graduate Tax Program (1985-2019 program termination) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Passthrough Entities for its entire term of publication (1998-2019).
Mr. Levun received a JD from the University of Chicago Law School and a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois. He is a past chair of the Partnerships and LLCs Committee of the American Bar Association’s Section of Taxation, the Chicago Bar Association’s Federal Taxation Committee and the Federal Taxation Section Council of the Illinois State Bar Association, and is a Fellow and past Regent in the American College of Tax Counsel. Mr. Levun has been chair of the faculty and co-sponsor of the Tax Planning Forum and the "Fundamentals of Flow-Through" Tax Seminar since their inception.
Michael J. Cohen, JD, LLM, MBA, CPA, is a partner in the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. Mr. Cohen received a JD and an LLM in Taxation from the Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law. He holds an MBA in Finance from DePaul University and a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce.
Mr. Cohen was the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Passthrough Entities for its entire term of publication (1998-2019) and was the co-author of the monthly "Partner's Perspective" column for its entire term of publication (1987 - 2020) that accompanied the Wolters Kluwer, CCH, Partnership Tax Planning and Practice Guide. He has been co-chair of the faculty and co-sponsor of the Tax Planning Forum and the "Fundamentals of Flow-Through" Tax Seminar since their inception.
Scott K. Miller, JD, LLM, is of counsel to the Chicago-area law firm of Levun, Goodman & Cohen, LLP. Mr. Miller received a BSBA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2000 and his JD and LLM in taxation from the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law in 2004. Prior to joining LGC in 2024, Mr. Miller worked for a national CPA and consulting firm primarily in the areas of federal income taxation with an emphasis on flow-through tax planning, M&A and business consulting. His practice included tax minimization strategies for all entity types, business reorganizations for partnerships, S corporations and C corporations, and estate and succession planning.
After completing this course, you will be able to:
• Identify the tax consequences of a transfer of a partnership interest from one spouse to the other in the case of a divorce or a sale, including the basis rules relating to the transferred interest.
• Compute the holding period of a partnership interest transferred from one spouse to the other when the transferee already holds a partnership interest in the same partnership.
• Recognize what happens in the case of a divorce to a net operating loss carryover reported on a joint return.
Handout: Please download the searchable PDF by clicking "Handouts" in the top navigation above. This will be helpful for the final exam. A GLOSSARY is included to provide insights into any new terms.
Notes: The navigation tab just to the left of the Handouts tab, provides a handy notes area for jotting down key ideas for the final test or for your future review and insights. You can also email them to yourself with the "email button." Don't forget to save them before you leave that screen.
Quizzes: Review questions will pop up periodically throughout the program. You must take these quizzes to advance the program. They do not count towards the final test. If you get the incorrect answer, you will receive a hint. You can then select a different response to learn the correct answer.
Final Test: You have three attempts to pass. You will need to get a 70% score to pass. There is no partial credit.
Certificate: Once you pass the test, this will be accessible on your account page.
Quick Search: Both the downloadable course PDF and the course transcript are readily searchable.
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Both the downloadable course PDF and the course transcript are readily searchable.