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Form 8271
Investor Reporting of Tax Shelter Registration Number
(Rev. December 2005)
OMB No. 1545-0881
Cat. No. 61924F
Department of the Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
Attachment
Sequence No.
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For Paperwork Reduction Act Notice, see page 2.
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Attach to your tax return.
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If you received this form from a partnership, S corporation, or trust, see the instructions.
Investor’s name(s) shown on return
Investor’s identifying number Investor’s tax year ended
(a) Tax Shelter Name
(b) Tax Shelter Registration
Number (11 digit number)
(c) Tax Shelter
Identifying Number
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What’s New
After October 22, 2004, tax shelter
registration numbers are no longer
being issued. The American Jobs
Creation Act of 2004 amended
section 6111 to replace the tax
shelter registration requirement with
a new disclosure requirement for
material advisors who provide
material aid, assistance, or advice
with respect to any reportable
transaction. For more information,
see Notice 2004-80, 2004-50 I.R.B.
963. However, Form 8271 must be
filed for any year you claim or report
income or a deduction, loss, credit,
or other tax benefit from a
registration-required tax shelter.
General Instructions
Section references are to the
Internal Revenue Code.
Purpose of Form
Use Form 8271 to report the tax
shelter registration number the IRS
assigned to certain tax shelters
required to be registered under
section 6111 (“registration-required
tax shelters”) and to report the name
and identifying number of the tax
shelter. This information must be
reported even if the particular
interest is producing net income for
the filer of Form 8271. Use
additional forms to report more than
10 tax shelter registration numbers.
Note. A tax shelter registration
number does not indicate that the
tax shelter or its claimed tax benefits
have been reviewed, examined, or
approved by the IRS.
Who Must File
Any person claiming or reporting any
deduction, loss, credit, or other tax
benefit, or reporting any income on
any tax return from an interest
purchased or otherwise acquired in
a registration-required tax shelter
must file Form 8271. If the interest is
purchased or otherwise acquired by
a pass-through entity, both the
pass-through entity and its partners,
shareholders, or beneficiaries must
file Form 8271.
A pass-through entity that is the
registration-required tax shelter does
not have to prepare Form 8271 and
give copies to its partners,
shareholders, or beneficiaries unless
the pass-through entity itself has
invested in a registration-required
tax shelter.
Note. Even if you have an interest in
a registration-required tax shelter,
you do not have to file Form 8271 if
you did not claim or report any
deduction, loss, credit, or other tax
benefit, or report any income on
your tax return from an interest in
the registration-required tax shelter.
This could occur, for example, if for
a particular year you are unable to
claim any portion of a loss because
of the passive activity loss
limitations, and that loss is the only
tax item reported to you from the
shelter.
Filing Form 8271
Attach Form 8271 to any return on
which a deduction, loss, credit, or
other tax benefit is claimed or
reported, or any income reported,
from an interest in a
registration-required tax shelter.
These returns include applications
for tentative refunds (Forms 1045
and 1139) and amended returns
(Forms 1040X and 1120X).
Furnishing Copies of Form
8271 to Investors
A pass-through entity that has
invested in a registration-required
tax shelter must furnish copies of its
Form 8271 to its partners,
shareholders, or beneficiaries.
However, in the case where (a) the
pass-through entity acquired at least
a 50% interest in one tax year in a
registered tax shelter (and in which it
had not held an interest in a prior
year), and (b) the investment would
not meet the definition of a tax
shelter immediately following the
acquisition if it had been offered for
sale at that time, the pass-through
entity need not distribute copies of
Form 8271 to its investors. The
pass-through entity alone is required
to prepare Form 8271 and include it
with the entity tax return.
Form 8271 (Rev. 12-2005)