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Introduced February 6, 2025 by Tammy Baldwin · Last progress February 6, 2025
The bill tightens and clarifies tax rules to reduce carried-interest tax advantages and improve IRS enforcement—boosting tax fairness and revenue—while imposing higher taxes on affected investment-service partners and significant new compliance costs and cash‑flow risks for recipients of partnership interests.
Broadly, ordinary-income reclassification of carried interest and related allocations will reduce tax-advantaged treatment for investment managers, increasing tax fairness and likely increasing federal revenue.
The bill provides clearer valuation, reporting, and anti-avoidance rules (including a new I.R.C. §710 and conforming amendments), which should reduce ambiguity, valuation disputes, and give the IRS clearer authority to enforce rules.
A default deemed 83(b) election and a liquidation-value formula create earlier tax recognition and a clearer valuation baseline, providing tax certainty and reducing later surprise disputes over when income is taxed.
Many partners and service providers who previously received favorable capital-gains treatment (carried interest, certain dividend/QSBS benefits) will face higher ordinary-income and payroll tax liabilities, raising their near-term and long-term tax bills.
Service providers who receive partnership interests may be forced to recognize immediate taxable income based on a liquidation-value formula or default deemed 83(b) election even when interests are illiquid, creating cash-flow problems for people who lack cash to pay the tax.
The bill creates substantial additional compliance and administrative burdens—complex new definitions, look-through/tiered partnership rules, separate accounting for §710, and new valuation requirements—that raise costs for partnerships, advisors, and financial institutions.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Recharacterizes carried interest and certain partnership investment-management allocations as ordinary income and self-employment earnings, disallowing some capital-gain preferences and changing election/timing rules.
Changes how partnership interests given for investment-management services are taxed: gains that would often be treated as long-term capital gains (carried interest) are recharacterized as ordinary income, certain capital-gain preferences are disallowed, and some partnership income is treated as self-employment earnings for Social Security. It also alters the timing rule for taxing service partners by defaulting to an immediate tax election unless the service recipient opts out, and adds new special tax rules and reporting requirements for partners who provide investment management services. These changes apply to partnership interests and partnership taxable years ending after enactment, create new code provisions requiring separate accounting and recharacterization rules, and include conforming amendments across Subchapter K and related tax and Social Security provisions.