IRS Looking at New Taxable Category Based on Patents

From

Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 186 / Wednesday, September 26, 2007 / Proposed Rules:

[T]he IRS and Treasury Department continue to be concerned about the patenting
of tax advice or tax strategies and believe that adding a new category of reportable transaction to the section 6011 regulations for patented transactions will assist the IRS and Treasury Department in obtaining disclosures of tax avoidance transactions and in providing effective tax administration. Under the new category of reportable transactions, the ‘‘patented transaction’’ is a transaction for which a taxpayer pays (directly or indirectly) a fee in any amount to a patent holder or the patent holder’s agent for the legal right to use a tax planning method that the taxpayer knows or has reason to know is the subject of the patent. A patented transaction also is a transaction for which a taxpayer (the patent holder or the patent holder’s agent) has the right to payment for another person’s use of a tax planning method that is the subject of the patent.

View the notice here (link)