How TEFRA partnership items are handled in a Munro computation

Plain-English summary

Chief Counsel Advice explains how to calculate a deficiency in a docketed non-TEFRA proceeding when the taxpayer's return includes TEFRA partnership items. The general method removes reported TEFRA items before calculating modified taxable income, with exceptions for items whose treatment is final or for which no TEFRA proceeding is ongoing. The non-TEFRA adjustments are then added, and the tax difference becomes the deficiency. The memo also explains that the parties may agree to treat partnership items as correctly reported, but a Munro stipulation must allow the Service to assess any remaining non-TEFRA deficiency through a later computational adjustment.

Ruling snapshot

• Question: How should partnership items be treated when calculating a non-TEFRA deficiency under a Munro computation?
• Outcome: Advice given.
• Key authorities: IRC § 6221; CCDM 35.2.1.1.16(5).

Full text (IRS public release)

ID: CCA_2013040414572901 Number: 201319027
Release Date: 5/10/2013
UILC: 6221.00-00

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Partnership items are not assumed to be correct under the Munro computation. Instead,
they are ignored as follows:

The partnership items are removed from the taxpayer Form 1040 and the deficiency is
calculated as follows under CCDM 35.2.1.1.16(5):

Whenever non-TEFRA adjustments are to be made to a petitioner's return that contains
TEFRA items and a Munro computation must be made, deficiencies shall be computed as
follows:

a. All TEFRA items that have been reported on the petitioner's return shall be removed to
determine the modified taxable income.

b. However, if the treatment of any TEFRA item has been finally determined, e.g., by
reason of a no change, a settlement or a completed TEFRA proceeding, those TEFRA
items whose treatment have been finally determined shall not be removed.

c. Similarly, if there is no ongoing TEFRA proceeding with respect to the TEFRA items at
the time that the computation is being made, those TEFRA items shall not be removed.

d. The non-TEFRA adjustments that are contained in the statutory notice (as modified in
the court proceeding) will be added. The result will be the modified taxable income as
corrected.

e. The tax on the amount in step (a) (the modified taxable income) will be calculated.

f. The tax on the amount in step (d) (the modified taxable income as corrected) will be
calculated.

g. The amount in step (e) will be subtracted from the amount in step (f). The difference
will be the deficiency.

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Sometimes for the purpose of a docketed non-TEFRA deficiency proceeding the parties
will agree to treat the partnership items as correctly reported. But this requires that a
Munro stipulation be signed agreeing that the Service may assess any remaining non-
TEFRA deficiency (e.g, the bracket creep that would otherwise apply to the non-TEFRA
deficiency under the CCDM Munro comp) as part of our later computational adjustment.