Early on December 2, 2017, the Senate passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the “Senate Bill”). This blog entry describes certain provisions of the Senate Bill that would have the most significant impact on the nonprofit community, including important differences between the Senate Bill and the prior version of the Senate bill and the bill passed by the House of Representatives (the “House Bill”) (both of which we described several weeks ago in “Updates for Tax-Exempt Organizations from the Senate Markup to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”).
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New Flexibility for Joint Ventures Using Tax-Exempt Bond-Financed Property
By Elizabeth M. Mills on
On October 26, 2015, the IRS released final regulations under Sections 141 and 145 of the Internal Revenue Code concerning the use of property financed with tax-exempt bond proceeds. The bulk of the new regulations fill a long-reserved spot in Treasury Regulation Section 1.141-6 concerning allocation of bond proceeds to financed property. In addition, in an important new development, amendments to Treasury Regulations Sections 1.141-3 and 1.145-2 now provide that partnerships that include governmental entities or Section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations can use and own bond-financed property. Permitted use is in proportion to the exempt’s ownership of the joint venture, except to the extent that the use generates unrelated business income for the exempt joint venturer. The new regulations can be applied to outstanding bonds as well as new bonds.