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Letter Leaves Pass Through Employers Behind

For seven years, your S-Corp team has repeated the same mantra for tax reform – tax all income once, tax it at similar reasonable rates, and then leave it alone. If Congress wants to make the tax code simpler and encourage more job creation, this is the place to start.

A competing view is one where the largest corporations pay very low rates while everybody else – individuals and pass through businesses alike – pay rates significantly higher. Recall that pass through businesses are taxed via the individual tax rates of their owners. The idea is that while US corporations can …

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admin2019-01-31T22:48:48+00:00August 1, 2017|

House Passes S-Corp Reforms!

Last week was a good one for S corporations! On Friday, the House voted 272 to 142 to adopt long-time S corporation Association priorities – the built-in gains tax relief and the charitable contribution basis adjustment for S corporations as part of H.R. 636, the America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2015.

These provisions were originally sponsored by Representatives Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Ron Kind (D-WI) in bills making permanent the five year built-in gains …

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admin2019-02-01T20:00:10+00:00February 19, 2015|

Should Main Street Businesses Elect C Corp Status? No!

The idea that corporate-only tax reform isn’t so bad because Main Street businesses can elect C corporation status has been argued for years. But should Congress reduce the corporate tax rate with the expectation that pass-through businesses will just switch to C status to access the lower rates? The answer is no. Here are the main points:

It’s the opposite of tax reform. The corporate-only approach to tax reform is effectively “anti-tax reform.” It will return us to the pre-1986 era, when corporate tax rates were significantly lower than individual rates and tax gaming and income sheltering were rampant.
It increases the …

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admin2019-02-01T20:00:10+00:00February 4, 2015|

BRT Offers Up Higher Tax Rates on Pass-Through Businesses

The Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of some of America’s largest multinational corporations, today sent a letter to congressional leaders and the President calling for comprehensive tax and entitlement reform, but also leaving the door open for higher tax rates on individuals and smaller businesses.

In response, Brian Reardon, Executive Director of the S Corporation Association issued the following statement:

“We agree with the Business Roundtable that the only way to address our long-term fiscal challenge is through comprehensive reform of both the tax code and our entitlement programs, but we disagree that Congress should consider raising marginal rates on pass-through businesses …

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admin2019-02-01T20:11:58+00:00December 12, 2012|

Fiscal (Slope) Cliff Forecast

While everyone in Washington waits for Tuesday’s election results, this story in The Hill caught our eye: “Fiscal cliff already weighing on economy.” According to the story:

While the expiring tax cuts and automatic spending cuts that make up the cliff do not take effect until the beginning of 2013, Pawlenty said he is hearing from financial firms that businesses are already halting business activity because they are not sure what will happen.

For example, 61 percent of JPMorgan’s U.S. clients are altering their hiring plans because of the cliff, and 42 percent of fund managers for Bank of America identify …

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admin2019-02-01T20:12:33+00:00November 5, 2012|