Statistics of Income Bulletin – Partnership

The Internal Revenue Service today announced that the Winter 2015 issue of the Statistics of Income Bulletin is now available on IRS.gov.

Partnership Returns 2012 – Partnerships filed more than 3 million tax returns for the year, representing more than 25 million partners. The real estate and leasing sector contained nearly half of all partnerships and just over a quarter of all partners. domestic limited liability companies made up the majority of all partnerships, surpassing all other entities for the 11th consecutive year. Total receipts for all partnerships increased more than 9 percent over 2011 to $6.6 trillion.