1) Partnerships are considered to be \"pass-through\" entities for tax purposes. As parterniship has no separate legal entity in the eye of law, unlike a corporation, its taxes are not separate from its partners. ll of the profits and losses of the partnership \"pass through\" the business to the partners, who pay taxes on their share of the profits (or deduct their share of the losses) on their individual income tax returns. In simple words, parnetrs first get their shared profit or loss from the operations of the business, then either pay taxes on the shares of profit individually or get tax return in case of loss individually. And Each partner\'s share of profits and losses is usually set out in a written partnership agreement, thus the tax also get clear from such share. 2) Partnership business must file the two forms which are named as : Form 1065 and Schedule K-1. Form 1065 is filled to provide an informational return the IRS reviews to determine whether the partners are reporting their income correctly. Schedule K-1 is filled with IRS and to each partner in order to breaks down each partner\'s share of the business\'s profits and losses. Yes as stated above, each partner reciev schedule K-1 fro other partners in the partnership. 3) ONce the partners receive the income from the partnership business, they individually reports this profit and loss information earned from the income on his or her individual tax return (Form 1040), with Schedule E attached. They are obliged to separate enough money to pay taxes on his share of annual profits. Partners must estimate the amount of tax they will owe for the year and make payments to the IRS at each quarter -- in April, July, October, and January. Scedule E is used to report such income to the IRS. Yes, partners must pay taxes on profits even if those profits are not distributed to the partners. The IRS demands taxes from the profit thai is income minus expenses of the business regardless of what the partners withdraw or not from their shares. 4) Distributive Share is the portion of profits to which a partner is entitled under a partnership agreement -- or under state law, if the partners didn\'t make an agreement. It is usually shared to the partners according to their ownership interests in the business. Lets say Partner has contributed 50% of capital in the business; Partner B has contributed 30% and Partner C has contributed 20%. Then their distributed share will be 50% : 30% : 20% , that is A will receive 60%, B will receive 30% and C will reciev 20% os share in profit or loss. 5) Sometimes an active partners works on behalf of other as well in the conduct of business operation. For which he gets rumenaration, which is also a kind of income earned from self employment. THus, here the partner is entitled to pay taxes not only on share of profit but alos on the income earned this way. This is known as self-employment taxes. There are some differences between the contributions regular employe.