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AICPA Requests Guidance On How To Handle Prepayment Of Events Canceled By COVID

The American Institute of CPAs has asked the Internal Revenue Service to issue updated guidance on how to account, from a tax perspective, prepayments received for live events that were canceled or deferred due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“During the pandemic, taxpayers offering live events or live productions to customers were often significantly affected by government actions and restrictions implemented originally during 2020 and continuing into 2021 and 2022,” AICPA said in a February 7 letter to the IRS. “For affected taxpayers, there is currently a lack of clarity regarding when to recognize gross income from advance payments attributable to events that were canceled or significantly deferred due to COVID-19, how to account for refunds offered to customers during the pandemic, and how to account for the issuance of a credit to the customer in situations where the customer declines to receive a cash refund and instead requests applying the credit as a prepayment for different event or production to take place at a later date.”

AICPA is requesting the IRS issue new guidance to clarify what the federal income tax treatment of these payments is and made the following recommendations:

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The IRS today informed taxpayers and practitioners that it has revised Form 3115, Application for Change in Accounting Method, and its instructions. […]

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