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The proposed Section 199A regulations provide anti-abuse rules to limit the ability of taxpayers to separate a specified service trade or business (“SSTB”) from a non-SSTB. One of those rules provides that if a non-SSTB has both 50 percent or more common ownership with an SSTB and shared expenses with…

The final Section 199A regulations, which were promulgated on January 18, 2019, make several clarifications to the rules regarding specified service trades or businesses (“SSTB”). Over certain taxable income thresholds, SSTBs are not eligible for the Section 199A deduction. The performance of services in the field of health is an…

Section 199A generally provides a 20 percent deduction for qualified business income of a trade or business. Many comments made with respect to the proposed Section 199A regulations focused on when rental real estate activities will constitute a trade or business, and thus be eligible for the Section 199A deduction….

We previously blogged about the final Section 199A regulations confirming “cliff” treatment for the de minimis aggregation rule. However, the final regulations did delete a different cliff in the rules designed to defeat the so-called “crack and pack” strategy of segregating various activities of a specified service trade or business…

The proposed Section 199A regulations provide a de minimis rule for trades or businesses with small amounts of gross receipts attributable to a specified service trade or business (“SSTB”). Specifically, the proposed regulations provide that if a non-SSTB has some relatively small elements that are SSTB services, then the SSTB…