Aggregating multiple businesses for the QBI deduction cannot include
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QBI Deduction and Aggregation of multiple businesses :
It’s not unusual for small business owners to operate more than one business. The proposed regs include rules allowing an individual to aggregate multiple businesses that are owned and operated as part of a larger, integrated business for purposes of the W-2 wages and UBIA of qualified property limitations, thereby maximizing the deduction. The final regs retain these rules with some modifications.
For example, the proposed rules allow a taxpayer to aggregate trades or businesses based on a 50% ownership test, which must be maintained for a majority of the taxable year. The final regulations clarify that the majority of the taxable year must include the last day of the taxable year.
The final regs also allow a “relevant pass-through entity” such as a partnership or S corporation to aggregate businesses it operates directly or through lower-tier pass-through entities to calculate its QBI deduction, assuming it meets the ownership test and other tests. (The proposed regs allow these entities to aggregate only at the individual-owner level.) Where aggregation is chosen, the entity and its owners must report the combined QBI, wages and UBIA of qualified property figures.
A taxpayer who doesn’t aggregate in one year can still choose to do so in a future year. Once aggregation is chosen, though, the taxpayer must continue to aggregate in future years unless there’s a significant change in circumstances.
The final regs generally don’t allow an initial aggregation of businesses to be done on an amended return, but the IRS recognizes that many taxpayers may be unaware of the aggregation rules when filing their 2018 tax returns. Therefore, it will permit taxpayers to make initial aggregations on amended returns for 2018.
Aggregating businesses can allow a taxpayer with high taxable income to claim a higher QBI deduction when the limitations based on W-2 wages and the UBIA of qualified property would otherwise prevent a larger deduction.
Taxpayers can potentially aggregate qualified businesses that are operated directly, such as through a sole proprietorship or a single-member limited liability company (LLC). The taxpayer must calculate the QBI, W-2 wages and UBIA of qualified property for each business and then aggregate those amounts to calculate QBI for the aggregated businesses and apply the QBI deduction limitations for the aggregated businesses.
Taxpayers can also potentially aggregate businesses that are operated via pass-through entities, such as S-corporations, partnerships or LLCs. All owners of pass-through entities need not aggregate in the same fashion.
5 aggregation requirements ;
Remember that the aggregation privilege isn’t automatic. In general, a taxpayer can aggregate businesses only if the five aggregation requirements listed below are satisfied:
Options for aggregating :
A taxpayer can choose to aggregate some businesses for which aggregation is allowed while not aggregating others for which aggregation isn’t.
How a taxpayer groups or doesn’t group businesses for purposes of applying the passive activity loss (PAL) rules doesn’t affect how the taxpayer can aggregate or not aggregate businesses for purposes of applying the QBI deduction rules. In other words, PAL groupings or non-groupings are irrelevant for purposes of the QBI deduction rules.
Aggregating multiple businesses for the QBI deduction cannot include
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