Form 1065
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Form 1065 is an information return used to report the income, deductions, gains, losses, etc., from the operation of a partnership. A partnership does not pay tax on its income but “passes through” any profits or losses to its partners. Partners must include partnership items on their tax returns.
Resources
- Form 1065 - U.S. Return of Partnership Income
- Form 1065 Instructions
Definitions
- Partnership - A partnership is the relationship between two or more persons who join to carry on a trade or business, with each person contributing money, property, labor, or skill and each expecting to share in the profits and losses of the business whether or not a formal partnership agreement is made.
The term “partnership” includes a limited partnership, syndicate, group, pool, joint venture, or other unincorporated organization, through or by which any business, financial operation, or venture is carried on, that is not, within the meaning of the regulations under section 7701, a corporation, trust, estate, or sole proprietorship.
A joint undertaking merely to share expenses is not a partnership. Mere co-ownership of property that is maintained and leased or rented is not a partnership. However, if the co-owners provide services to the tenants, a partnership exists.
- Foreign Partnership - A foreign partnership is a partnership that is not created or organized in the United States or under the law of the United States or of any state.
- General Partner - A general partner is a partner who is personally liable for partnership debts.
- General Partnership - A general partnership is composed only of general partners.
- Limited Partner - A limited partner is a partner in a partnership formed under a state limited partnership law, whose personal liability for partnership debts is limited to the amount of money or other property that the partner contributed or is required to contribute to the partnership. Some members of other entities, such as domestic or foreign business trusts or limited liability companies that are classified as partnerships, may be treated as limited partners for certain purposes. See, for example, Temporary Regulations section 1.469-5T(e)(3), which treats all members with limited liability as limited partners for purposes of section 469(h)(2).
- Limited Partnership - A limited partnership is formed under a state limited partnership law and composed of at least one general partner and one or more limited partners.
- Limited Liability Partnership - A limited liability partnership (LLP) is formed under a state limited liability partnership law. Generally, a partner in an LLP is not personally liable for the debts of the LLP or any other partner, nor is a partner liable for the acts or omissions of any other partner, solely by reason of being a partner.
- Limited Liability Company - A limited liability company (LLC) is an entity formed under state law by filing articles of organization as an LLC. Unlike a partnership, none of the members of an LLC are personally liable for its debts. An LLC may be classified for federal income tax purposes as a partnership, a corporation, or an entity disregarded as an entity separate from its owner by applying the rules in Regulations section 301.7701-3. See Form 8832, Entity Classification Election, for more details.
Note. A domestic LLC with at least two members that does not file Form 8832 is classified as a partnership for federal income tax purposes.
- Nonrecourse Loans - Nonrecourse loans are those liabilities of the partnership for which no partner bears the economic risk of loss.
