On May 27, 2016, the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Private Letter Ruling (PLR) 201622003. PLR 201622003 continues the trend of favorable PLRs issued by the IRS on the question of whether, under a facts-and-circumstances analysis, a management contract that fails to satisfy a Rev. Proc. 97-13 safe harbor from private business use results in private business use of a tax-exempt bond issue. PLR 201622003 also provides helpful guidance in interpreting the scope of the safe harbor from private business use set forth in Rev. Proc. 97-13 §5.03(7) in the case of a management contract that provides for incentive compensation based on the attainment of a threshold for an increase in gross revenue of the managed facility or a decrease in the expenses of operating the managed facility (but not both an increase in revenue and decrease in expenses).
