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Progress on S-Corp SALT Parity Efforts

The House Select Revenue Subcommittee held a hearing today entitled “How Recent Limitations to the SALT Deduction Harm Communities, Schools, First Responders, and Housing Values.” Missing from the list are Main Street Employers, many of whom lost the ability to deduct the State and local taxes they pay on their business income.

That’s because tax reform subjected deductions on state and local taxes (SALT) paid by pass-through business owners to the same $10,000 cap as taxes paid on wages and property.  Taxes paid by the business entities themselves, like C corporations, remain fully deductible.

Since most states tax pass-through businesses at the

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2019-06-25T21:54:41+00:00June 25, 2019|

S-Corp Comments on 2704

Monday was the close of the comment period for Treasury Notice 2017-38, and the S Corporation Association joined several other trade groups in submitting our final comments on the pending Section 2704 rules, including our study highlighting the threat these rules pose to family businesses and their employees.
This comment period is the latest in a long saga and we hope it marks the beginning of the end.  To recap:
2019-01-31T22:48:48+00:00August 14, 2017|

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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2019-01-31T22:48:48+00:00August 1, 2017|

Tax Reform Statement & Pass Through Taxes

Just in time for the August recess, the House, Senate and the White House released a joint statement yesterday on the status of their tax reform talks and their plans moving forward.  You can read the statement here.  From our perspective, here are the key points:
“While we have debated the pro-growth benefits of border adjustability, we appreciate that there are many unknowns associated with it and have decided to set this policy aside in order to advance tax reform.”
A primary purpose of the statement was to pivot the tax conversation away from the House Blueprint and the

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2021-08-16T14:02:33+00:00August 1, 2017|