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Video instructions and help with filling out and completing Can Form 1120 Schedule M 3 Amounts

Instructions and Help about Can Form 1120 Schedule M 3 Amounts

Okay, let's talk about partnership distributions now. With partnership distributions, that means the partnership is giving me cash or property. How much goes into my personal balance sheet? What we're looking at is my basis for setup. So, a couple of questions: 1. What is the basis in the received asset? 2. What does it do to my outside basis? 3. Does it create income that I have to recognize? Let's draw a picture to illustrate this. We have the partner who puts an asset into the partnership. Then, the partner takes out their share of the asset, let's say one-third or fifty percent or twenty percent. For example, if the asset has a carryover basis of ten and a fair market value of twenty, the basis picked up is ten. Now, let's consider income of sixty dollars. If I own ten percent, I pick up six dollars. So, my basis is now sixteen, which is my outside basis. However, the basis of the property to the partnership is still ten. So, my outside basis is my initial basis plus my share of the income, which is sixteen. Next, let's consider the partnership distributing an asset to me. We need to look at the basis inside the partnership and my basis outside the partnership. The question is, what is my basis in the newly received asset and is there any income involved? When it comes to partnership distributions, the rules are different for cash and for property. We need to understand the rules for both. For cash distributions, the excess of cash over the basis is a gain. For property distributions, the basis in the distributed asset in the hands of the partner is equal to the partner's basis in the partnership prior to the distribution. Let's look at an example for non-liquidating distributions. In this case, the...