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Volume 53, Number 11                                                                  November 2022


                                                                                    TAX CLINIC

                                                                             M&A transactions: Deducting
                                                                             accrued liabilities  ............................7
                                                                             Updated simplified method
                                                                             for estate portability elections  .......  9

                                                                             Scholarship grants awarded
                                                                             by private foundations  ...............  10
                                                                             Deduction of startup expenses  ...  11

                                                                             CFCs: US shareholders’
                                                                             income inclusions  ....................... 12

                                                                             Real property losses are
                                                                             capital, not ordinary  .................... 17
                                                                             Distribution of risk in captive
                                                                             insurance companies  .................. 18
                                                                             Inadvertent terminations of S
                                                                             and QSub elections  ..................... 20
                                                                             Sourcing Sec. 751(a) gain
                                                                             from nonresident’s sale of
         26 Recent developments in estate                                    California partnership interest  .....  21
         planning: Part 1                                                    All-events test for sales
                                                                             incentives — one perspective  ..... 23
         By Justin Ransome
                                                                             All-events test for sales
         In this first installment of an annual update on trust, estate, and gift taxation, the   incentives — another
         topics include estate tax closing letters, the basic exclusion amount, estate debts   perspective  .................................. 24
         and expenses, and extending the time to elect portability. The second and third
         installments of the annual update will appear in the December and January issues,
                                                                                  DEPARTMENTS
         respectively.
         38 Federal implications of passthrough                              TAX PRACTICE
         entity tax elections                                                RESPONSIBILITIES ...................... 48

         By Lynn Mucenski-Keck and Jeremias Ramos                            CAMPUS TO CLIENTS ................. 52
         Many questions remain with respect to the deductibility at the federal level of state   CASE STUDY ................................ 56
         income tax payments (SITPs) made by passthrough entities (PTEs) under new state
         tax regimes enacted to ameliorate the effect of the cap for individuals on the deduc-  TAX TRENDS ................................. 60
         tion of state and local taxes. This article discusses some of those questions, as well as
         whether a state refund of credits received by PTE owners related to SITPs is includ-  Tax News
         ible in their income.
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