Taxation and Business Planning for Partnerships and LLCs (Aspen Casebook Series)

This highly anticipated new casebook provides comprehensive examination of tax principles with a unique practice-oriented approach to help students become practice ready with skills that they have developed in a setting that reflects practice in the real world. Taxation and Business Planning for Partnerships and LLCs includes background information about non-tax topics, such as basic accounting and finance, concepts related to debt, and state-law entity transactions so that classroom discussion can assume students have a general understanding of basic non-tax concepts. This new casebook also includes a general review of basic tax concepts that come up through the course of studying partnership taxation along with rules of conduct for attorneys who practice before the IRS. This first edition is accompanied by a unique Client File, which includes memoranda, documents such as operating agreements and loan documents, and spreadsheets with financial information. Each memorandum corresponds to a chapter in the casebook, and students will analyze the relevant information and apply the law presented to analyze the problems and present advice in a manner that a lawyer would to such clients.