- 7 - be from the tax savings. Another brochure, bearing the heading “Harvesting Tax Savings by Farming the Tax Code”, also emphasized tax savings and explained that the investment could be financed from the investors’ tax savings, which the investors otherwise would have paid to the IRS. The partnership interest and the resulting flowthrough partnership deductions were “purchased” with 75 percent of the individual’s tax savings resulting from the flowthrough partnership deductions. The 75-percent tax savings were determined by first computing an individual’s tax liability without participation in a Hoyt partnership and then computing the individual’s tax savings using the Hoyt partnership loss. The difference in the two calculations was the individual’s tax savings, of which 75 percent was paid to the Hoyt organization and 25 percent was to be retained by the individual. In addition, in the initial year of investment, amended returns claiming refunds were often filed for the individual’s prior 3 taxable years. The Hoyt organization received 75 percent of such refunds, and the individual retained 25 percent. Each year the individual’s payment to the Hoyt organization was adjusted to reflect the 75/25 split. Because the investment was based on “tax savings” and not on original cash outlay, Hoyt’s partnership scheme essentially paid for itself.Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 NextLast modified: November 10, 2007