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The door is slamming shut on a $50 billion tax loophole used by the super-rich
The Treasury and IRS proposed new tax regulations Monday targeting the uber-wealthy that they say could result in $50 billion in fresh tax revenues over the next decade.
The initiative seeks to crack down on “related party basis shifting transactions” — or the use of “opaque business structures to inflate tax deductions,” according to a Treasury press release.
This occurs, for instance, when a single company operating as different legal entities shifts the tax basis from a property that doesn’t generate deductions to one that does, the agency explained.
The practice is contributing to the $160 billion annual tax gap among the top 1% of filers, the Treasury said.
Filings from pass-through businesses with more than $10 million in assets increased 70% from 2010 to 2019, the Treasury said, as audits fell from 3.8% to 0.1% over the same period.
The multi-stage initiative follows a year of research, the Treasury said, and proposes several new rules, including increasing reporting for basis-shifting transactions.
The agencies also issued a revenue ruling stating that certain transactions will be challenged for lacking economic substance.
“Treasury and the IRS are focused on addressing high-end tax abuse from all angles,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement, noting that “resources from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act” have helped combat “long-standing abuses.”
The agencies said they will consider public comments before issuing final rules.
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