IRS Mulls What Issues to Target in Big-Partnership Audits

The IRS’s stepped-up effort to audit large, complex partnerships is still looking into exactly what sorts of compliance issues at the partnerships to focus on, agency officials said Tuesday.

The agency is going into the new effort in an “open-minded” fashion, said Roger Benesch, a field operations director in the IRS’s Large Business & International division.

The IRS has hired specialists in partnership law to provide insights into what the agency should be focusing on, said Kathleen Kruchten, director of Western compliance for LB&I, who along with Benesch spoke at a Palo Alto, Calif., conference sponsored ...