Working Groups - The S Corporation Association

Senate Finance Working Groups Release Reports

The Senate Finance Working Groups reports are done and publicly available! Many congrats to the Committee members and their staff for continuing the progress on tax reform. You can check out the reports here. The Business Income Tax report drafted by Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Ben Cardin (D-MD) is the one of most interest to us. We have to admit, the first few pages were bit a disappointing, as the introduction could lend the impression that pass through taxation (multiple business entities) is somehow a bad thing.

Our tax system also promotes inefficiency by incentivizing businesses to make decisions …

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Big Week for S-Corp

It’s been a busy and productive week for team S-Corp! First, we had two S-Corp representatives testifying before congressional committees on Wednesday. Second, with the Finance Committee working group comments due on April 15^th, we made three separate submissions to the Business, Individual, and International working groups. And finally, as part of the working group submissions, we released the 2015 version of our “Pass Through” tax reform principles letter with 118 trade groups signing on!

Here’s a quick summary of each of these efforts.

S-Corp Testifies

In an S-Corp first, we had two witnesses testifying at congressional hearings on Tax Day.

Board …

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