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From human capital to capital gains: the puzzle of profits interests.

This note discusses the tax treatment of a "money and brains" partnership. The tax treatment of a "brains" partner who performs services in exchange for a capital interest in a partnership is well settled. The treatment of a partner who receives an interest only in the partnership's profits, however, has been controversial. Under current law, a partner who receives a profits interest can avoid paying ordinary income tax on the return to her labor, instead paying only capital gains. This surprising feature of the tax law has received a great deal of scholarly attention. The current literature has not, however, considered the nature of the services that the brains partner ...

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