You have several options when looking to change ownership of your partnership, such as adding or removing members or tweaking each owner's stake in the company. However, if all of the business's core partners change, you'll need to officially dissolve the company.
The best way to sell your limited partnership interest may lie in finding an experienced broker or advisor who can help you to identify potential buyers and guide you through any negotiations that may arise.
If a partner's departure triggers an end to the partnership, the partners will need to follow a dissolution procedure. In this case, the partnership will settle its debts and distribute any remaining assets to the partners—including the withdrawing partner—ing to their capital accounts.
From the seller's perspective, the partnership recognizes gain or loss on the sale of assets, which flows through to the partners on their K-1s. The character of the gain or loss depends on the assets sold and can be a combination of ordinary gain/loss and capital gain/loss.
This means the ownership interest a partner has in a partnership is treated as a separate asset that can be purchased and sold.
The seller in situation one will calculate their gain as if they had sold the underlying assets of the partnership. Unlike the sale of stock for a C-corporation or S-corporation, some of the gain in the sale of partnership units may be recharacterized to ordinary income instead of being all capital gain.
The best way to sell your limited partnership interest may lie in finding an experienced broker or advisor who can help you to identify potential buyers and guide you through any negotiations that may arise.
Your LLC must file an IRS Form 1065 and an Arizona Partnership Return (Form 165).
Generally, a partner selling his partnership interest recognizes capital gain or loss on the sale. The amount of the gain or loss recognized is the difference between the amount realized and the partner's adjusted tax basis in his partnership interest.