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IRS Notice Extends 1031 Exchange Deadlines

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On April 9, 2020 the IRS issued Notice 2020-23. This Notice extended many deadlines for taxpayers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic including Section 1031 exchange time deadlines.

This Notice provides that any person performing a time-sensitive action listed in either § 301.7508A-1(c)(1)(iv) of the Procedure and Administrative Regulations or Revenue Procedure 2018-58, 2018-50 IRB 990 (December 10, 2018), which is due to be performed on or after April 1, 2020, and before July 15, 2020 (Specified Time-Sensitive Action), is an Affected Taxpayer. This includes the 45-Day Identification and 180-Day Exchange Period deadlines in both deferred and safe-harbor reverse 1031 exchanges.

Therefore, pursuant to Notice 2020-23, if the end of a taxpayer’s 45-day Identification Period or 180-day Exchange Period in a deferred exchange or the parallel periods in reverse exchanges under Revenue Procedure 2000-37 falls between April 1 and July 15, the applicable period is automatically extended to July 15, 2020, unless a taxpayer chooses to opt-out of the extensions.  API clients who choose to opt-out of these extensions, need to notify API in writing as soon as possible.

In the absence of further IRS guidance, only deadlines currently scheduled to occur between the dates of April 1 – July 15, 2020 are extended. Notice 2020-23 does not address deadlines that fall before or after this specific time period, most importantly identification or exchange completion periods that ended before April 1 or pending exchange periods that end after July 15. In addition, this Notice is different from many previous IRS Disaster Relief Notices and does not provide clear answers to other deadline related issues.

This Notice does not reference Section 17 of Revenue Procedure 2018-58, which provides an extension of 120 days or until the date specified in the Notice, whichever is later. It is uncertain and not clear in Notice 2020-23 if the 120-day deadline extension provided in previous IRS Disaster Relief Notices applies.

Finally, some taxpayers were seeking IRS extensions of dates falling after the date of the FEMA and Stafford Act declaration on March 13, 2020. Other taxpayers were hoping for a deadline extension to apply from the date of the FEMA disaster declaration on January 20, 2020. At this point in time, taxpayers should make decisions based upon known IRS guidance.

Asset Preservation, Inc. (API) does not know whether additional guidance will be released by the IRS addressing these and other uncertain issues. We will provide further updates if additional relevant guidance is released in the future. API strongly urges taxpayers to consult with your legal and/or tax advisors regarding your specific 1031 exchange transaction.


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