Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-74)
Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (P.L. 114-74)
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H.R. 1314, Enrolled Bill
One Hundred Fourteenth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE FIRST SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the sixth
day of January, two thousand and fifteen
An Act
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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for a right to an administrative appeal relating to adverse determinations of tax-exempt status of certain organizations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE. -- This Act may be cited as the "Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015".
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS. -- The table of contents of this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I -- BUDGET ENFORCEMENT
Sec. 101. Amendments to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Sec. 102. Authority for fiscal year 2017 budget resolution in the Senate.
TITLE II -- AGRICULTURE
Sec. 201. Standard Reinsurance Agreement.
TITLE III -- COMMERCE
Sec. 301. Debt collection improvements.
TITLE IV -- STRATEGIC PETROLEUM RESERVE
Sec. 401. Strategic Petroleum Reserve test drawdown and sale notification and definition change.
Sec. 402. Strategic Petroleum Reserve mission readiness optimization.
Sec. 403. Strategic Petroleum Reserve drawdown and sale.
Sec. 404. Energy Security and Infrastructure Modernization Fund.
Sec. 501. Single employer plan annual premium rates.
Sec. 502. Pension Payment Acceleration.
Sec. 503. Mortality tables.
Sec. 504. Extension of current funding stabilization percentages to 2018, 2019, and 2020.
TITLE VI -- HEALTH CARE
Sec. 601. Maintaining 2016 Medicare part B premium and deductible levels consistent with actuarially fair rates.
Sec. 602. Applying the Medicaid additional rebate requirement to generic drugs.
Sec. 603. Treatment of off-campus outpatient departments of a provider.
Sec. 604. Repeal of automatic enrollment requirement.
TITLE VII -- JUDICIARY
Sec. 701. Civil monetary penalty inflation adjustments.
Sec. 702. Crime Victims Fund.
Sec. 703. Assets Forfeiture Fund.
TITLE VIII -- SOCIAL SECURITY
Sec. 801. Short title.
Subtitle A -- Ensuring Correct Payments and Reducing Fraud
Sec. 811. Expansion of cooperative disability investigations units.
Sec. 812. Exclusion of certain medical sources of evidence.
Sec. 813. New and stronger penalties.
Sec. 814. References to Social Security and Medicare in electronic communications.
Sec. 815. Change to cap adjustment authority.
Subtitle B -- Promoting Opportunity for Disability Beneficiaries
Sec. 821. Temporary reauthorization of disability insurance demonstration project authority.
Sec. 822. Modification of demonstration project authority.
Sec. 823. Promoting opportunity demonstration project.
Sec. 824. Use of electronic payroll data to improve program administration.
Sec. 825. Treatment of earnings derived from services.
Sec. 826. Electronic reporting of earnings.
Subtitle C -- Protecting Social Security Benefits
Sec. 831. Closure of unintended loopholes.
Sec. 832. Requirement for medical review.
Sec. 833. Reallocation of payroll tax revenue.
Sec. 834. Access to financial information for waivers and adjustments of recovery.
Subtitle D -- Relieving Administrative Burdens and Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 841. Interagency coordination to improve program administration.
Sec. 842. Elimination of quinquennial determinations relating to wage credits for military service prior to 1957.
Sec. 843. Certification of benefits payable to a divorced spouse of a railroad worker to the Railroad Retirement Board.
Sec. 844. Technical amendments to eliminate obsolete provisions.
Sec. 845. Reporting requirements to Congress.
Sec. 846. Expedited examination of administrative law judges.
TITLE IX -- TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF PUBLIC DEBT LIMIT
Sec. 901. Temporary extension of public debt limit.
Sec. 902. Restoring congressional authority over the national debt.
TITLE X -- SPECTRUM PIPELINE
Sec. 1001. Short title.
Sec. 1002. Definitions.
Sec. 1003. Rule of construction.
Sec. 1004. Identification, reallocation, and auction of Federal spectrum.
Sec. 1005. Additional uses of Spectrum Relocation Fund.
Sec. 1006. Plans for auction of certain spectrum.
Sec. 1007. FCC auction authority.
Sec. 1008. Reports to Congress.
Sec. 1101. Partnership audits and adjustments.
Sec. 1102. Partnership interests created by gift.
TITLE XII -- DESIGNATION OF SMALL HOUSE ROTUNDA
Sec. 1201. Designating small House rotunda as "Freedom Foyer".
SEC. 504. EXTENSION OF CURRENT FUNDING STABILIZATION PERCENTAGES TO 2018, 2019, AND 2020.
(a) FUNDING STABILIZATION UNDER THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986. -- The table in subclause (II) of section 430(h)(2)(C)(iv) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows:
The applicable minimum The applicable maximum
If the calendar year is: percentage is: percentage is:
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2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 90% 110%
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
or 2020
2021 85% 115%
2022 80% 120%
2023 75% 125%
After 2023 70% 130%.
(1) IN GENERAL. -- The table in subclause (II) of section 303(h)(2)(C)(iv) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1083(h)(2)(C)(iv)) is amended to read as follows:
If the calendar year is: percentage is: percentage is:
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2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 90% 110%
2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
or 2020
2021 85% 115%
2022 80% 120%
2023 75% 125%
After 2023 70% 130%.
(A) IN GENERAL. -- Section 101(f)(2)(D) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1021(f)(2)(D)) is amended --
(i) in clause (i) by striking "and the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014" both places it appears and inserting ", the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014, and the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015"; and
(ii) in clause (ii) by striking "2020" and inserting "2023".
(B) STATEMENTS. -- The Secretary of Labor shall modify the statements required under subclauses (I) and (II) of section 101(f)(2)(D)(i) of such Act to conform to the amendments made by this section.
SEC. 1101. PARTNERSHIP AUDITS AND ADJUSTMENTS.
(a) REPEAL OF TEFRA PARTNERSHIP AUDIT RULES. -- Chapter 63 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking subchapter C (and by striking the item relating to such subchapter in the table of subchapters for such chapter).
(b) REPEAL OF ELECTING LARGE PARTNERSHIP RULES. --
(1) IN GENERAL. -- Subchapter K of chapter 1 of such Code is amended by striking part IV (and by striking the item relating to such part in the table of parts for such subchapter).
(2) ASSESSMENT RULES RELATING TO ELECTING LARGE PARTNERSHIPS. -- Chapter 63 of such Code is amended by striking subchapter D (and by striking the item relating to such subchapter in the table of subchapters for such chapter).
(c) PARTNERSHIP AUDIT REFORM. --
(1) IN GENERAL. -- Chapter 63 of such Code, as amended by the preceding provisions of this section, is amended by inserting after subchapter B the following new subchapter:
"Subchapter C -- Treatment of Partnerships
"PART I -- IN GENERAL
"PART II -- PARTNERSHIP ADJUSTMENTS
"PART III -- PROCEDURE
"PART IV -- DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES
"Sec. 6222. Partner’s return must be consistent with partnership return.
"Sec. 6223. Designation of partnership representative.
"SEC. 6221. DETERMINATION AT PARTNERSHIP LEVEL.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- Any adjustment to items of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of a partnership for a partnership taxable year (and any partner’s distributive share thereof) shall be determined, any tax attributable thereto shall be assessed and collected, and the applicability of any penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount which relates to an adjustment to any such item or share shall be determined, at the partnership level pursuant to this subchapter.
"(b) ELECTION OUT FOR CERTAIN PARTNERSHIPS WITH 100 OR FEWER PARTNERS, ETC. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- This subchapter shall not apply with respect to any partnership for any taxable year if --
"(A) the partnership elects the application of this subsection for such taxable year,
"(B) for such taxable year the partnership is required to furnish 100 or fewer statements under section 6031(b) with respect to its partners,
"(C) each of the partners of such partnership is an individual, a C corporation, any foreign entity that would be treated as a C corporation were it domestic, an S corporation, or an estate of a deceased partner,
"(D) the election --
"(i) is made with a timely filed return for such taxable year, and
"(ii) includes (in the manner prescribed by the Secretary) a disclosure of the name and taxpayer identification number of each partner of such partnership, and
"(E) the partnership notifies each such partner of such election in the manner prescribed by the Secretary.
"(2) SPECIAL RULES RELATING TO CERTAIN PARTNERS. --
"(A) S CORPORATION PARTNERS. -- In the case of a partner that is an S corporation --
"(i) the partnership shall only be treated as meeting the requirements of paragraph (1)(C) with respect to such partner if such partnership includes (in the manner prescribed by the Secretary) a disclosure of the name and taxpayer identification number of each person with respect to whom such S corporation is required to furnish a statement under section 6037(b) for the taxable year of the S corporation ending with or within the partnership taxable year for which the application of this subsection is elected, and
"(ii) the statements such S corporation is required to so furnish shall be treated as statements furnished by the partnership for purposes of paragraph (1)(B).
"(B) FOREIGN PARTNERS. -- For purposes of paragraph (1)(D)(ii), the Secretary may provide for alternative identification of any foreign partners.
"(C) OTHER PARTNERS. -- The Secretary may by regulation or other guidance prescribe rules similar to the rules of subparagraph (A) with respect to any partners not described in such subparagraph or paragraph (1)(C).
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- A partner shall, on the partner’s return, treat each item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit attributable to a partnership in a manner which is consistent with the treatment of such income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit on the partnership return.
"(b) UNDERPAYMENT DUE TO INCONSISTENT TREATMENT ASSESSED AS MATH ERROR. -- Any underpayment of tax by a partner by reason of failing to comply with the requirements of subsection shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as if such underpayment were on account of a mathematical or clerical error appearing on the partner’s return. Paragraph (2) of section 6213(b) shall not apply to any assessment of an underpayment referred to in the preceding sentence.
"(c) EXCEPTION FOR NOTIFICATION OF INCONSISTENT TREATMENT. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- In the case of any item referred to in subsection (a), if --
"(A)(i) the partnership has filed a return but the partner’s treatment on the partner’s return is (or may be) inconsistent with the treatment of the item on the partnership return, or
"(ii) the partnership has not filed a return, and
"(B) the partner files with the Secretary a statement identifying the inconsistency, subsections (a) and (b) shall not apply to such item.
"(2) PARTNER RECEIVING INCORRECT INFORMATION. -- A partner shall be treated as having complied with subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) with respect to an item if the partner --
"(A) demonstrates to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the treatment of the item on the partner’s return is consistent with the treatment of the item on the statement furnished to the partner by the partnership, and
"(B) elects to have this paragraph apply with respect to that item.
"(e) ADDITION TO TAX FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH SECTION. -- For addition to tax in the case of a partner’s disregard of the requirements of this section, see part II of subchapter A of chapter 68.
"SEC. 6223. PARTNERS BOUND BY ACTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP.
"(a) DESIGNATION OF PARTNERSHIP REPRESENTATIVE. -- Each partnership shall designate (in the manner prescribed by the Secretary) a partner (or other person) with a substantial presence in the United States as the partnership representative who shall have the sole authority to act on behalf of the partnership under this subchapter. In any case in which such a designation is not in effect, the Secretary may select any person as the partnership representative.
"(b) BINDING EFFECT. -- A partnership and all partners of such partnership shall be bound --
"(1) by actions taken under this subchapter by the partnership, and
"(2) by any final decision in a proceeding brought under this subchapter with respect to the partnership.
"PART II -- PARTNERSHIP ADJUSTMENTS
"Sec. 6226. Alternative to payment of imputed underpayment by partnership.
"Sec. 6227. Administrative adjustment request by partnership.
"SEC. 6225. PARTNERSHIP ADJUSTMENT BY SECRETARY.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- In the case of any adjustment by the Secretary in the amount of any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of a partnership, or any partner’s distributive share thereof --
"(1) the partnership shall pay any imputed underpayment with respect to such adjustment in the adjustment year as provided in section 6232, and
"(2) any adjustment that does not result in an imputed underpayment shall be taken into account by the partnership in the adjustment year --
"(A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), as a reduction in non-separately stated income or an increase in non-separately stated loss (whichever is appropriate) under section 702(a)(8), or
"(B) in the case of an item of credit, as a separately stated item.
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in subsection (c), any imputed underpayment with respect to any partnership adjustment for any reviewed year shall be determined --
"(A) by netting all adjustments of items of income, gain, loss, or deduction and multiplying such net amount by the highest rate of tax in effect for the reviewed year under section 1 or 11,
"(B) by treating any net increase or decrease in loss under subparagraph (A) as a decrease or increase, respectively, in income, and
"(C) by taking into account any adjustments to items of credit as an increase or decrease, as the case may be, in the amount determined under subparagraph (A).
"(2) ADJUSTMENTS TO DISTRIBUTIVE SHARES OF PARTNERS NOT NETTED. -- In the case of any adjustment which reallocates the distributive share of any item from one partner to another, such adjustment shall be taken into account under paragraph (1) by disregarding --
"(A) any decrease in any item of income or gain, and
"(B) any increase in any item of deduction, loss, or credit.
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- The Secretary shall establish procedures under which the imputed underpayment amount may be modified consistent with the requirements of this subsection.
"(2) AMENDED RETURNS OF PARTNERS. --
"(A) IN GENERAL. -- Such procedures shall provide that if –
"(i) one or more partners file returns (notwithstanding section 6511) for the taxable year of the partners which includes the end of the reviewed year of the partnership,
"(ii) such returns take into account all adjustments under subsection (a) properly allocable to such partners (and for any other taxable year with respect to which any tax attribute is affected by reason of such adjustments), and
"(iii) payment of any tax due is included with such return,
"(B) REALLOCATION OF DISTRIBUTIVE SHARE. -- In the case of any adjustment which reallocates the distributive share of any item from one partner to another, paragraph (1) shall apply only if returns are filed by all partners affected by such adjustment.
"(3) TAX-EXEMPT PARTNERS. -- Such procedures shall provide for determining the imputed underpayment without regard to the portion thereof that the partnership demonstrates is allocable to a partner that would not owe tax by reason of its status as a tax-exempt entity (as defined in section 168(h)(2)).
"(4) MODIFICATION OF APPLICABLE HIGHEST TAX RATES. --
"(A) IN GENERAL. -- Such procedures shall provide for taking into account a rate of tax lower than the rate of tax described in subsection (b)(1)(A) with respect to any portion of the imputed underpayment that the partnership demonstrates is allocable to a partner which --
"(i) in the case of ordinary income, is a C corporation, or
"(ii) in the case of a capital gain or qualified dividend, is an individual.
"(B) PORTION OF IMPUTED UNDERPAYMENT TO WHICH LOWER RATE APPLIES. --
"(i) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in clause (ii), the portion of the imputed underpayment to which the lower rate applies with respect to a partner under subparagraph (A) shall be determined by reference to the partners’ distributive share of items to which the imputed underpayment relates.
"(ii) RULE IN CASE OF VARIED TREATMENT OF ITEMS AMONG PARTNERS. -- If the imputed underpayment is attributable to the adjustment of more than 1 item, and any partner’s distributive share of such items is not the same with respect to all such items, then the portion of the imputed underpayment to which the lower rate applies with respect to a partner under subparagraph (A) shall be determined by reference to the amount which would have been the partner’s distributive share of net gain or loss if the partnership had sold all of its assets at their fair market value as of the close of the reviewed year of the partnership.
"(6) YEAR AND DAY FOR SUBMISSION TO SECRETARY. -- Anything required to be submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be submitted to the Secretary not later than the close of the 270-day period beginning on the date on which the notice of a proposed partnership adjustment is mailed under section 6231 unless such period is extended with the consent of the Secretary.
"(7) DECISION OF SECRETARY. -- Any modification of the imputed underpayment amount under this subsection shall be made only upon approval of such modification by the Secretary.
"(d) DEFINITIONS. -- For purposes of this subchapter --
"(1) REVIEWED YEAR. -- The term ‘reviewed year’ means the partnership taxable year to which the item being adjusted relates.
"(2) ADJUSTMENT YEAR. -- The term ‘adjustment year’ means the partnership taxable year in which --
"(A) in the case of an adjustment pursuant to the decision of a court in a proceeding brought under section 6234, such decision becomes final,
"(B) in the case of an administrative adjustment request under section 6227, such administrative adjustment request is made, or
"(C) in any other case, notice of the final partnership adjustment is mailed under section 6231.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- If the partnership --
"(1) not later than 45 days after the date of the notice of final partnership adjustment, elects the application of this section with respect to an imputed underpayment, and
"(2) at such time and in such manner as the Secretary may provide, furnishes to each partner of the partnership for the reviewed year and to the Secretary a statement of the partner’s share of any adjustment to income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit (as determined in the notice of final partnership adjustment), section 6225 shall not apply with respect to such underpayment and each such partner shall take such adjustment into account as provided in subsection (b). The election under paragraph (1) shall be made in such manner as the Secretary may provide and, once made, shall be revocable only with the consent of the Secretary.
"(b) ADJUSTMENTS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT BY PARTNER. --
"(1) TAX IMPOSED IN YEAR OF STATEMENT. -- Each partner’s tax imposed by chapter 1 for the taxable year which includes the date the statement was furnished under subsection (a) shall be increased by the aggregate of the adjustment amounts determined under paragraph (2) for the taxable years referred to therein.
"(2) ADJUSTMENT AMOUNTS. -- The adjustment amounts determined under this paragraph are --
"(A) in the case of the taxable year of the partner which includes the end of the reviewed year, the amount by which the tax imposed under chapter 1 would increase if the partner’s share of the adjustments described in subsection (a) were taken into account for such taxable year, plus
"(B) in the case of any taxable year after the taxable year referred to in subparagraph (A) and before the taxable year referred to in paragraph (1), the amount by which the tax imposed under chapter 1 would increase by reason of the adjustment to tax attributes under paragraph (3).
"(3) ADJUSTMENT OF TAX ATTRIBUTES. -- Any tax attribute which would have been affected if the adjustments described in subsection (a) were taken into account for the taxable year referred to in paragraph (2)(A) shall --
"(A) in the case of any taxable year referred to in paragraph (2)(B), be appropriately adjusted for purposes of applying such paragraph, and
"(B) in the case of any subsequent taxable year, be appropriately adjusted.
"(1) PENALTIES. -- Notwithstanding subsections (a) and (b), any penalties, additions to tax, or additional amount shall be determined as provided under section 6221 and the partners of the partnership for the reviewed year shall be liable for any such penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount.
"(2) INTEREST. -- In the case of an imputed underpayment with respect to which the application of this section is elected, interest shall be determined --
"(A) at the partner level,
"(B) from the due date of the return for the taxable year to which the increase is attributable (determined by taking into account any increases attributable to a change in tax attributes for a taxable year under subsection (b)(2)), and
"(C) at the underpayment rate under section 6621(a)(2), determined by substituting ‘5 percentage points’ for ‘3 percentage points’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- A partnership may file a request for an administrative adjustment in the amount of one or more items of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of the partnership for any partnership taxable year.
"(b) ADJUSTMENT. -- Any such adjustment under subsection (a) shall be determined and taken into account for the partnership taxable year in which the administrative adjustment request is made --
"(1) by the partnership under rules similar to the rules of section 6225 (other than paragraphs (2), (6) and (7) of subsection (c) thereof) for the partnership taxable year in which the administrative adjustment request is made, or
"(2) by the partnership and partners under rules similar to the rules of section 6226 (determined without regard to the substitution described in subsection (c)(2)(C) thereof).
In the case of an adjustment that would not result in an imputed underpayment, paragraph (1) shall not apply and paragraph (2) shall apply with appropriate adjustments.
"(c) PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS. -- A partnership may not file such a request more than 3 years after the later of --
"(1) the date on which the partnership return for such year is filed, or
"(2) the last day for filing the partnership return for such year (determined without regard to extensions).
In no event may a partnership file such a request after a notice of an administrative proceeding with respect to the taxable year is mailed under section 6231.
"Sec. 6232. Assessment, collection, and payment.
"Sec. 6233. Interest and penalties.
"Sec. 6234. Judicial review of partnership adjustment.
"Sec. 6235. Period of limitations on making adjustments.
"SEC. 6231. NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS AND ADJUSTMENT.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- The Secretary shall mail to the partnership and the partnership representative --
"(1) notice of any administrative proceeding initiated at the partnership level with respect to an adjustment of any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of a partnership for a partnership taxable year, or any partner’s distributive share thereof,
"(2) notice of any proposed partnership adjustment resulting from such proceeding, and
"(3) notice of any final partnership adjustment resulting from such proceeding.
Any notice of a final partnership adjustment shall not be mailed earlier than 270 days after the date on which the notice of the proposed partnership adjustment is mailed. Such notices shall be sufficient if mailed to the last known address of the partnership representative or the partnership (even if the partnership has terminated its existence). The first sentence shall apply to any proceeding with respect to an administrative adjustment request filed by a partnership under section 6227.
"(b) FURTHER NOTICES RESTRICTED. -- If the Secretary mails a notice of a final partnership adjustment to any partnership for any partnership taxable year and the partnership files a petition under section 6234 with respect to such notice, in the absence of a showing of fraud, malfeasance, or misrepresentation of a material fact, the Secretary shall not mail another such notice to such partnership with respect to such taxable year.
"(c) AUTHORITY TO RESCIND NOTICE WITH PARTNERSHIP CONSENT. -- The Secretary may, with the consent of the partnership, rescind any notice of a partnership adjustment mailed to such partnership. Any notice so rescinded shall not be treated as a notice of a partnership adjustment for purposes of this subchapter, and the taxpayer shall have no right to bring a proceeding under section 6234 with respect to such notice.
"SEC. 6232. ASSESSMENT, COLLECTION, AND PAYMENT.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- Any imputed underpayment shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as if it were a tax imposed for the adjustment year by subtitle A, except that in the case of an administrative adjustment request to which section 6227(b)(1) applies, the underpayment shall be paid when the request is filed.
"(b) LIMITATION ON ASSESSMENT. -- Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no assessment of a deficiency may be made (and no levy or proceeding in any court for the collection of any amount resulting from such adjustment may be made, begun or prosecuted) before --
"(1) the close of the 90th day after the day on which a notice of a final partnership adjustment was mailed, and
"(2) if a petition is filed under section 6234 with respect to such notice, the decision of the court has become final.
"(c) PREMATURE ACTION MAY BE ENJOINED. -- Notwithstanding section 7421(a), any action which violates subsection (b) may be enjoined in the proper court, including the Tax Court. The Tax Court shall have no jurisdiction to enjoin any action under this subsection unless a timely petition has been filed under section 6234 and then only in respect of the adjustments that are the subject of such petition.
"(d) EXCEPTIONS TO RESTRICTIONS ON ADJUSTMENTS. --
"(1) ADJUSTMENTS ARISING OUT OF MATH OR CLERICAL ERRORS. --
"(A) IN GENERAL. -- If the partnership is notified that, on account of a mathematical or clerical error appearing on the partnership return, an adjustment to a item is required, rules similar to the rules of paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 6213(b) shall apply to such adjustment.
"(B) SPECIAL RULE. -- If a partnership is a partner in another partnership, any adjustment on account of such partnership’s failure to comply with the requirements of section 6222(a) with respect to its interest in such other partnership shall be treated as an adjustment referred to in subparagraph (A), except that paragraph (2) of section 6213(b) shall not apply to such adjustment.
"(2) PARTNERSHIP MAY WAIVE RESTRICTIONS. -- The partnership may at any time (whether or not any notice of partnership adjustment has been issued), by a signed notice in writing filed with the Secretary, waive the restrictions provided in subsection (b) on the making of any partnership adjustment.
"(e) LIMIT WHERE NO PROCEEDING BEGUN. -- If no proceeding under section 6234 is begun with respect to any notice of a final partnership adjustment during the 90-day period described in subsection (b) thereof, the amount for which the partnership is liable under section 6225 shall not exceed the amount determined in accordance with such notice.
"SEC. 6233. INTEREST AND PENALTIES.
"(a) INTEREST AND PENALTIES DETERMINED FROM REVIEWED YEAR. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- Except to the extent provided in section 6226(c), in the case of a partnership adjustment for a reviewed year --
"(A) interest shall be computed under paragraph (2), and
"(B) the partnership shall be liable for any penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount as provided in paragraph (3).
"(2) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF INTEREST. -- The interest computed under this paragraph with respect to any partnership adjustment is the interest which would be determined under chapter 67 for the period beginning on the day after the return due date for the reviewed year and ending on the return due date for the adjustment year (or, if earlier, the date payment of the imputed underpayment is made). Proper adjustments in the amount determined under the preceding sentence shall be made for adjustments required for partnership taxable years after the reviewed year and before the adjustment year by reason of such partnership adjustment.
"(3) PENALTIES. -- Any penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount shall be determined at the partnership level as if such partnership had been an individual subject to tax under chapter 1 for the reviewed year and the imputed underpayment were an actual underpayment (or understatement) for such year.
"(b) INTEREST AND PENALTIES WITH RESPECT TO ADJUSTMENT YEAR RETURN. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- In the case of any failure to pay an imputed underpayment on the date prescribed therefor, the partnership shall be liable --
"(A) for interest as determined under paragraph (2), and
"(B) for any penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount as determined under paragraph (3).
"(2) INTEREST. -- Interest determined under this paragraph is the interest that would be determined by treating the imputed underpayment as an underpayment of tax imposed in the adjustment year.
"(3) PENALTIES. -- Penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts determined under this paragraph are the penalties, additions to tax, or additional amounts that would be determined --
"(A) by applying section 6651(a)(2) to such failure to pay, and
"(B) by treating the imputed underpayment as an underpayment of tax for purposes of part II of subchapter A of chapter 68.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- Within 90 days after the date on which a notice of a final partnership adjustment is mailed under section 6231 with respect to any partnership taxable year, the partnership may file a petition for a readjustment for such taxable year with --
"(1) the Tax Court,
"(2) the district court of the United States for the district in which the partnership’s principal place of business is located, or
"(3) the Claims Court.
"(b) JURISDICTIONAL REQUIREMENT FOR BRINGING ACTION IN DISTRICT COURT OR CLAIMS COURT. --
"(1) IN GENERAL. -- A readjustment petition under this section may be filed in a district court of the United States or the Claims Court only if the partnership filing the petition deposits with the Secretary, on or before the date the petition is filed, the amount of the imputed underpayment (as of the date of the filing of the petition) if the partnership adjustment was made as provided by the notice of final partnership adjustment. The court may by order provide that the jurisdictional requirements of this paragraph are satisfied where there has been a good faith attempt to satisfy such requirement and any shortfall of the amount required to be deposited is timely corrected.
"(2) INTEREST PAYABLE. -- Any amount deposited under paragraph (1), while deposited, shall not be treated as a payment of tax for purposes of this title (other than chapter 67).
"(c) SCOPE OF JUDICIAL REVIEW. -- A court with which a petition is filed in accordance with this section shall have jurisdiction to determine all items of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of the partnership for the partnership taxable year to which the notice of final partnership adjustment relates, the proper allocation of such items among the partners, and the applicability of any penalty, addition to tax, or additional amount for which the partnership may be liable under this subchapter.
"(d) DETERMINATION OF COURT REVIEWABLE. -- Any determination by a court under this section shall have the force and effect of a decision of the Tax Court or a final judgment or decree of the district court or the Claims Court, as the case may be, and shall be reviewable as such. The date of any such determination shall be treated as being the date of the court’s order entering the decision.
"(e) EFFECT OF DECISION DISMISSING ACTION. -- If an action brought under this section is dismissed other than by reason of a rescission under section 6231(c), the decision of the court dismissing the action shall be considered as its decision that the notice of final partnership adjustment is correct, and an appropriate order shall be entered in the records of the court.
"SEC. 6235. PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS ON MAKING ADJUSTMENTS.
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- Except as otherwise provided in this section, no adjustment under this subpart for any partnership taxable year may be made after the later of --
"(1) the date which is 3 years after the latest of --
"(A) the date on which the partnership return for such taxable year was filed,
"(B) the return due date for the taxable year, or
"(C) the date on which the partnership filed an administrative adjustment request with respect to such year under section 6227, or
"(2) in the case of any modification of an imputed underpayment under section 6225(c), the date that is 270 days (plus the number of days of any extension consented to by the Secretary under paragraph (4) thereof) after the date on which everything required to be submitted to the Secretary pursuant to such section is so submitted, or
"(3) in the case of any notice of a proposed partnership adjustment under section 6231(a)(2), the date that is 270 days after the date of such notice.
"(b) EXTENSION BY AGREEMENT. -- The period described in subsection (a) (including an extension period under this subsection) may be extended by an agreement entered into by the Secretary and the partnership before the expiration of such period.
"(c) SPECIAL RULE IN CASE OF FRAUD, ETC. --
"(1) FALSE RETURN. -- In the case of a false or fraudulent partnership return with intent to evade tax, the adjustment may be made at any time.
"(2) SUBSTANTIAL OMISSION OF INCOME. -- If any partnership omits from gross income an amount properly includible therein and such amount is described in section 6501(e)(1)(A), subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting ‘6 years’ for ‘3 years’.
"(3) NO RETURN. -- In the case of a failure by a partnership to file a return for any taxable year, the adjustment may be made at any time.
"(4) RETURN FILED BY SECRETARY. -- For purposes of this section, a return executed by the Secretary under subsection (a) of section 6020 on behalf of the partnership shall not be treated as a return of the partnership.
"(d) SUSPENSION WHEN SECRETARY MAILS NOTICE OF ADJUSTMENT. -- If notice of a final partnership adjustment with respect to any taxable year is mailed under section 6231, the running of the period specified in subsection (a) (as modified by the other provisions of this section) shall be suspended --
"(1) for the period during which an action may be brought under section 6234 (and, if a petition is filed under such section with respect to such notice, until the decision of the court becomes final), and
"(2) for 1 year thereafter.
"PART 2 -- DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES
"SEC. 6241. DEFINITIONS AND SPECIAL RULES.
"For purposes of this subchapter --
"(1) PARTNERSHIP. -- The term ‘partnership’ means any partnership required to file a return under section 6031(a).
"(2) PARTNERSHIP ADJUSTMENT. -- The term ‘partnership adjustment’ means any adjustment in the amount of any item of income, gain, loss, deduction, or credit of a partnership, or any partner’s distributive share thereof.
"(3) RETURN DUE DATE. -- The term ‘return due date’ means, with respect to the taxable year, the date prescribed for filing the partnership return for such taxable year (determined without regard to extensions).
"(4) PAYMENTS NONDEDUCTIBLE. -- No deduction shall be allowed under subtitle A for any payment required to be made by a partnership under this subchapter.
"(5) PARTNERSHIPS HAVING PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS OUTSIDE UNITED STATES. -- For purposes of sections 6234, a principal place of business located outside the United States shall be treated as located in the District of Columbia.
"(6) PARTNERSHIPS IN CASES UNDER TITLE 11 OF UNITED STATES CODE. --
"(A) SUSPENSION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATIONS ON MAKING ADJUSTMENT, ASSESSMENT, OR COLLECTION. -- The running of any period of limitations provided in this subchapter on making a partnership adjustment (or provided by section 6501 or 6502 on the assessment or collection of any imputed underpayment determined under this subchapter) shall, in a case under title 11 of the United States Code, be suspended during the period during which the Secretary is prohibited by reason of such case from making the adjustment (or assessment or collection) and --
"(i) for adjustment or assessment, 60 days thereafter, and
"(ii) for collection, 6 months thereafter.
A rule similar to the rule of section 6213(f)(2) shall apply for purposes of section 6232(b).
"(B) SUSPENSION OF PERIOD OF LIMITATION FOR FILING FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW. -- The running of the period specified in section 6234 shall, in a case under title 11 of the United States Code, be suspended during the period during which the partnership is prohibited by reason of such case from filing a petition under section 6234 and for 60 days thereafter.
"(7) TREATMENT WHERE PARTNERSHIP CEASES TO EXIST. -- If a partnership ceases to exist before a partnership adjustment under this subchapter takes effect, such adjustment shall be taken into account by the former partners of such partnership under regulations prescribed by the Secretary.
"(8) EXTENSION TO ENTITIES FILING PARTNERSHIP RETURN. -- If a partnership return is filed by an entity for a taxable year but it is determined that the entity is not a partnership (or that there is no entity) for such year, then, to the extent provided in regulations, the provisions of this subchapter are hereby extended in respect of such year to such entity and its items and to persons holding an interest in such entity.".
(2) CLERICAL AMENDMENT. -- The table of subchapters for chapter 63 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended by the preceding provisions of this section, is amended by inserting after the item relating to subchapter B the following new item:
(d) BINDING NATURE OF PARTNERSHIP ADJUSTMENT PROCEEDINGS. -- Section 6330(c)(4) of such Code is amended by striking "or" at the end of subparagraph (A), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) and inserting "; or", and by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new subparagraph:
(f) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. --
(1) Section 6031(b) of such Code is amended by striking the last sentence.
(2) Section 6422 of such Code is amended by striking paragraph (12).
(3) Section 6501(n) of such Code is amended by striking paragraphs (2) and (3) and by striking "CROSS REFERENCES" and all that follows through "For period of limitations" and inserting "CROSS REFERENCE. -- For period of limitations".
(4) Section 6503(a)(1) of such Code is amended by striking "(or section 6229" and all that follows through "of section (5) Section 6504 of such Code is amended by striking paragraph (11). (6) Section 6511 of such Code is amended by striking subsection (g). (7) Section 6512(b)(3) of such Code is amended by striking the second sentence. (8) Section 6515 of such Code is amended by striking paragraph (6). (9) Section 6601(c) of such Code is amended by striking the last sentence. (10) Section 7421(a) of such Code is amended by striking "6225(b), 6232(c)". (11) Section 7422 of such Code is amended by striking subsection (h). (12) Section 7459(c) of such Code is amended by striking "section 6226" and all that follows through "or 6252" and inserting "section 6234". (13) Section 7482(b)(1) of such Code is amended -- (B) by striking subparagraph (F), by striking "or" at the end of subparagraph (E) and inserting a period, and by inserting "or" at the end of subparagraph (D), and (C) in the last sentence, by striking "section 6226, 6234(c)" and inserting "section 6234".
(g) EFFECTIVE DATE. --
(1) IN GENERAL. -- Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the amendments made by this section shall apply to returns filed for partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.
(2) ADMINISTRATIVE ADJUSTMENT REQUESTS. -- In the case of administrative adjustment request under section 6227 of such Code, the amendments made by this section shall apply to requests with respect to returns filed for partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.
(3) ADJUSTED PARTNERS STATEMENTS. -- In the case of a partnership electing the application of section 6226 of such Code, the amendments made by this section shall apply to elections with respect to returns filed for partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017.
(4) ELECTION. -- A partnership may elect (at such time and in such form and manner as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe) for the amendments made by this section (other than the election under section 6221(b) of such Code (as added by this Act)) to apply to any return of the partnership filed for partnership taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act and before January 1, 2018.
(a) IN GENERAL. -- Section 761(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following: "In the case of a capital interest in a partnership in which capital is a material income-producing factor, whether a person is a partner with respect to such interest shall be determined without regard to whether such interest was derived by gift from any other person.".
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. -- Section 704(e) of such Code is amended --
(1) by striking paragraph (1) and by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively,
(2) by striking "this section" in paragraph (2) (as so redesignated) and inserting "this subsection", and
(3) by striking "FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS" in the heading and inserting "PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS CREATED BY GIFT".
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE. -- The amendments made by this section shall apply to partnership taxable years beginning after December 31, 2015.
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