A listed transaction is a transaction that is the same as or substantially similar to one that the IRS has determined to be a tax avoidance transaction and identified by IRS notice or other form of published guidance.
- LISTED TRANSACTION # 1 (Unearned Deductions)
Backdating Plan Contributions Attributable to Compensation Earned After Year’s End
IRS Rev. Ruling 90-105 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 2 (Abusive Welfare Plans)
Certain Trusts Purporting to be Multiple Employer
IRS Notice 95-34 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 3 (ASA Investerings)
Abusive Uses of Partnerships in Transactions
Substantially Similar to the Transactions at Issue in
ASA Investerings Partnership v. IRS
ACM Partnership v. IRS - LISTED TRANSACTION # 4 (Short-term Charitable Remainder Trusts )
Short-term Charitable Remainder Trusts - LISTED TRANSACTION # 5 (BOSS)
”BOSS” (Bond-and-Option Sales Strategy) - LISTED TRANSACTION # 6 (Fast-Pay Stock Arrangements)
Fast-Pay Stock Arrangements
Treasury Regs. Section 1.7701(l)-3 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 7 (Bull & Bear Note Transactions)
Bull & Bear Note Transactions
IRS Rev. Ruling 2000-12 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 8 (SON OF BOSS)
(Uses of Artificially Inflated Basis in the Partnership Setting)
Notice 2000-44 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 9 (Abusive Uses of Subs.1.83-6)
Improper Use of a Subsidiary to Satisfy Parent’s
Stock-Based Compensation Obligations
IRS Notice 2000-60 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 10 (Guam Trust Strategies)
”Guam Trust Strategies”
IRS Notice 2000-61 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 11 (MIDCO Deals)
MIDCO Deals (Agency & Intermediary Corp. Abuses)
IRS Notice 2001-16
(as modified by IRS Notice - LISTED TRANSACTION # 12 (Abusive 351 Transfers)
Abusive Section 351 Transfers (Using Contingent, Unmatured Liabilities)
IRS Notice 2001-17 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 13 (Abusive Basis-Shifting)
Abusive Basis-Shifting Devices
Foreign Leverage Investment Portfolio (FLIP)
Offshore Portfolio Investment Strategy (OPIS)
Notice 2001-45 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 14 (Cards-Loan Assumption)
Abusive Basis-Shifting Devices
Using Loan Assumption Agreements
Notice 2002-21 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 15 (Abusive Notional Principal Contract)
Abusive Uses of a Notional Principal Contract to Create
Timing and Character Whipsaws Against the IRS
IRS Notice 2002-35 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 16 (Abusive Straddles)
Abusive Straddles
IRS Notice 2002-50 (Partnership Straddles)
IRS Notice 2002-65 (Pass-Through Entity Straddles)
IRS Notice 2003-54 (Common Trust Fund Straddles) - LISTED TRANSACTION # 17 (LILO)
Lease-In/Lease Out (LILO) Transactions
IRS Rev. Ruling 2002-69 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 18 (PORCs)
Abusive Producer Owned Reinsurance Companies
IRS Notice 2002-70 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 19 (Abusive Use of ESOP/S)
Abusive Use of ESOP/S Corp. Arrangements to
Avoid Anti-Abuse Section 409(p) Effective Date
IRS Rev. Ruling 2003-6 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 20 (Employee Leasing)
Abusive Offshore Employee Leasing Arrangements
IRS Notice 2003-22 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 21 (Abusive Collectively-Bargained Funds)
Abusive Collectively-Bargained Welfare Benefit Funds
Exempted from IRC Section 419/419A Limits
IRS Notice 2003-24 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 22 (Abusive Sales of Options to FLPs)
Abusive Option Sales to FLPs/Related Parties
IRS Notice 2003-47 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 23 ( LEASE-STRIPPING)
LEASE-STRIPPING - LISTED TRANSACTION # 24 (”CLAS”)
Contested Liability Acceleration Strategies
IRS Notice 2003-77 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 25 (Foreign Currency Option Contract)
Abusive Offsetting Foreign Currency Option Contract Transactions
IRS Notice 2003-81 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 26 (Roth IRA)
Abusive Roth IRA Transactions
IRS Notice 2004-8 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 27 (Abusive Use of ESOP/S Corp Ownership)
Abusive Use of ESOP/S Corp. Ownership
Arrangements Aimed at Bypassing Synthetic Equity Rules
IRS Rev. Ruling 2004-4 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 28 (Abusive 412(i) Plans)
Abusive Section 412(i) Plans with Excessive Life Insurance
IRS Rev. Ruling 2004-20 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 29 (Abusive Foreign Tax Credit Transactions)
Abusive Foreign Tax Credit Transactions
IRS Notice 2004-20 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 30 (Abusive S Corporation Income Shifting)
Abusive S Corporation Income Shifting
Arrangements (SC2)
IRS Notice 2004-30 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 31 (Abusive Partnership Intercompany)
Abusive Partnership Intercompany Financings
IRS Notice 2004-31 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 32 (Listed Transaction (LT #32))
SILOs and Other Sale-Leasebacks (with Economic Defeasance)
IRS Notice 2005-13 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 33 (Abusive Loss Importation Transaction )
Using Check-the-Box Regulations
IRS Notice 2007-57 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 34 (Abusive Trust Arrangements)
Utilizing Cash Value Life Insurance Policies Purportedly to Provide Welfare Benefits
IRS Notice 2007-83 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 35 (Distressed Asset Trust Transactions)
DATs – Distressed Asset Trust Transactions
IRS Notice 2008-34 - LISTED TRANSACTION # 36 (Basket Option Contracts)
NEW! – LISTED TRANSACTION – Basket Option Contracts (Reissued 10-21-15)
IRS Notice 2015-74 (reissued guidance) - LISTED TRANSACTION # 37 (Syndicated Conservation Easement Transactions)
Offering prospective investors charitable deduction of at least 2 and one-half times their investment
Notice 2017-10