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Tag: IRS notice 89-35

December 7, 2022

When Your Firm’s Partners Borrow to Buy Ownership Interests

Updated August 2, 2024 Click here to learn more about our tax, accounting and advisory services for attorneys and law firms. It’s not uncommon for an incoming partner in a professional firm to take out a personal loan to finance all or part of the cost of acquiring an ownership interest. If some of your firm’s partners have done this, they need to know the proper federal income tax treatment of the resulting interest expense. Such partner-level interest expense is sometimes called… Read more ›