"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value." — Theodore Roosevelt, Osawatomie, Kansas, August 31, 1910
If you invested in a conservation easement or land donation program and have received a tax notice from past years, we might be able to help.
Despite Congress creating incentives to conserve land in 1976, 2006, 2015, and 2022 through the SECURE Act, the IRS has mounted a decade-long attack on taxpayers who leveraged these incentives through investment partnerships.
Understanding Your Situation
Members and partners in these partnerships are being assessed tax on conservation-related deductions that are being eliminated and are receiving substantial tax due notices from previous years.
Many partnerships have agreed to settle long-running tax disputes with the IRS instead of facing ongoing costs and exceedingly expensive Tax Court litigation where positive outcomes are rare for all types of disputes.
In addition to the tax, a penalty is added. Both of which accrue interest from April of the year the tax is now owed.
Although it's possible to pursue this on your own, the process is layered with complexities that can easily become overwhelming. As you'll see in the Taxpayer Roadmap from the IRS, the path is anything but simple.
We see a reasonable chance of a better outcome than the partnership settlements for individuals. We've built online tools and materials with a human-staffed support team to give you the best chance at relief.
While the partnership's options are exhausted, you as an individual taxpayer retain access to IRS administrative procedures.
Challenge penalties, request interest abatement, and potentially reduce your personal tax assessment.
The IRS must still properly assess and collect from you personally—numerous ordinary procedures remain available.
What We Offer
With our expertise, we help you and your CPA avoid costly missteps and move forward with confidence.
P4C supports preserving smart, responsible incentives to encourage private land conservation.
10 years of resources and case materials, organized with AI. Research and analysis used for abatement requests are derived from these.
Enter and store your information once to complete multiple forms. Downloadable versions with plain-language guides explaining when each form applies.
Most CPAs don't deal with these types of procedures. We get them sharp fast, saving you time and money. Then we provide the solutions.
Using the library, your details and tax bills, in conjunction with the investment fund timeline, we generate your abatement request details. The most important part!
Your CPA is first, with our help. If appeals require legal expertise, we've pre-negotiated rates and expert limited support. If your CPA is not available, we can still help.
Who We Help
Whether you're an investor, CPA, or fund sponsor, we have resources tailored to your needs.
We are investors too, and see a reasonable chance of a better outcome than the partnership settlements for individuals.
While the partnership's options are exhausted, you retain access to IRS administrative procedures to challenge penalties and request interest abatement.
We've built a comprehensive set of tools with human-staffed support to give you the best chance at relief.
We work with you and your CPA to develop strategy, getting them up to speed quickly on these unique procedures.
IRS disputes can eat up time you don't have. We understand that strategies like Offer in Compromise, Collection Due Process, and Appeals are specialty services.
You already have form tools, yet this one is specific to the strategies employed—for investors and you to use repeatedly throughout the process.
No digging through IRS jargon. Step-by-step resources you can use alongside your client.
We get you smart quick on the rationale, the specifics, and the tools to help your clients with this unique set of abatement requests and appeals.
If it gets to appeals, clients can hire pre-vetted experts at a set rate who know these issues and are ready to make the case.
When the Partnership Matter has accepted a settlement and it is "final" 90 days after the order by the Judge, the tax becomes an individual taxpayer item.
In some cases the IRS is not following its manuals or steps—bypassing notices and simply mailing bills with little to no details. It's confusing, upsetting, and creating havoc with members, their accountants, investment advisors, and you.
We'll help you onboard important offering details from time of donation through finalization of settlement to enable your members to utilize this information.
10 years of organized IRS and case materials your members can lean on—all relevant to the development of these ongoing tax disputes.
Instead of everyone going it alone or giving up—working across many funds, CPAs, and thousands of investors, we can scale and automate complex yet powerful tax abatement solutions.
Tools for you to share and enable your members to understand their options. If successful, the total tax bill to post-settlement fund investors may be substantially reduced.
What You Receive
One year membership plus access to the library of resources developed or collected over the past 8 years, which has been used to train the AI model that assesses the best strategy for your abatement requests.
Time with our consultants for you and your CPA to learn, understand, and then employ—should you choose—a series of requests to the IRS.
Access to forms tools, plus use of our proprietary AI tool. Upload your tax assessment notifications, and we'll run analysis to draft a strategy for you and your tax professional.
FAQ
Not exactly. It does pay for up to two hours of our accounting and attorneys to advise yours. You should expect your other professional advisors to bill you for their services. We are providing a service to you and your tax professionals, not replacing them.
We do not have the capacity to address the amount of taxpayers who have expressed interest. We also are not CPAs who deal directly with individuals. The goal of our service is to leverage automations, AI, and the unique circumstances of these settlements to help as many taxpayers as soon as possible.
Yes. However, that will be quite a challenge for most people. Even though your tax professional may not be familiar with these techniques, they are familiar with the systems. Our goal is to get them proficient fast, understand the arguments, and execute on your strategies.
We do not have the capacity to address the amount of taxpayers who have expressed interest. We also are not CPAs who deal directly with individuals. The goal of our service is to leverage automations, AI, and the unique circumstances of these settlements to help as many taxpayers as soon as possible.
Based on publicly available information from the National Taxpayer Advocate, IRS administrative processes can take 6-24+ months depending on the type of proceeding. During pending administrative proceedings, the IRS typically suspends collection activities. Your tax professional can explain what timelines might apply to your specific circumstances.
That is incorrect. While the partnership's options may be exhausted, you as an individual taxpayer retain access to IRS administrative procedures to challenge penalties, request interest abatement, and potentially reduce your personal tax assessment.
A tax bill from the IRS is not to be ignored. This is a critical decision that has significant procedural implications. Recent Supreme Court cases (including Commissioner v. Zuch, 2025) have addressed how payment timing affects taxpayer rights in administrative proceedings. NaturalVC tools enable your accountant to advise you on the implications of different payment approaches for your specific situation before you take any action.
Multiple notices from different partnerships may involve different tax years, different procedural rules (TEFRA vs. BBA), and different computational issues. Some notices may have different response deadlines. NaturalVC helps coordinate and inform you and your tax professional on an appropriate coordinated response strategy for your specific circumstances.
Generally, the administrative process for individual partners begins after: the partnership has reached a settlement or decision in Tax Court, the IRS issues computational adjustments to individual partners, and partners receive personal notices from the IRS. The timing and specific procedures depend on whether the partnership was subject to TEFRA rules (through 2017) or BBA rules (2018+).
When partnership settlements occur, the IRS typically issues individual computational adjustments to partners. The timing varies based on the partnership's tax year structure (TEFRA vs. BBA rules) and when the settlement occurred. Consult with your accountant about monitoring for IRS correspondence and what preparation steps might be appropriate for your situation. You can also register your interest at naturalvc.com.
Keep your envelopes, note the date received vs. the date of the correspondence in them. Get your account on IRS.gov and be prepared to share it with your accountant. Don't ignore any IRS correspondence. Ask the manager of your partnership to upload the details of your offering to naturalvc.com.
IRS Resources
As you'll see in The Taxpayer Roadmap from the IRS, the path is anything but simple. The tools provided on this site are designed to assist taxpayers in navigating these complexities.
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