Tax Policy - The S Corporation Association

WSJ is Wrong on SALT Parity

To whoever signed off on yesterday’s Wall Street Journal editorial attacking the ability of Main Street businesses to deduct their SALT payments – just like C corporations do – S-Corp has a bridge to sell you. Seriously, you got played.

The piece starts off wrong and gets worse from there. Here’s what it says:

Senate Republicans appear to be acquiescing to demands by House Republicans from high-tax states to raise the $10,000 limit on the state-and-local tax deduction to $40,000. In return for this gift to spendthrift progressive states, they should at least close a giant loophole in the cap.

The …

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admin2025-06-25T18:06:19+00:00June 25, 2025|

Setting the Record Straight on 199A

Critics of the Section 199A passthrough deduction are back in full swing. A recent release by Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) claims the House-passed proposal to extend and modestly expand the 199A deduction “disproportionately benefits the rich.”

Senate and House tax-writers need to ignore the critics and support 199A, including the House proposal to increase the deduction to 23 percent. The Wyden release may generate headlines, but it doesn’t change the underlying facts: Section 199A is one of the most effective tools to spur economic growth and job creation while helping level the playing field between Main …

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admin2025-06-24T14:38:29+00:00June 24, 2025|

Avoiding Tax Hikes in the Big Beautiful Bill

The Main Street community needs the Big Beautiful Bill to succeed. Absent congressional action, taxes on pass-through businesses of all sizes will go up sharply. The same applies to most families. So the Main Street Employers Coalition supports efforts in both the House and the Senate to extend the sunsetting provisions from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Comparing the two approaches, the House bill is more friendly to small- and family-owned businesses. It increases the Section 199A pass-through deduction to 23 percent and its disallowance of Pass-Through Entity Taxes (PTETs) is limited to Specified Service Trades or Businesses (SSTB) …

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admin2025-06-18T21:40:52+00:00June 18, 2025|

Tax Notes Highlights House SALT Limitation

As we wrote recently, there’s lots to like about the House reconciliation package, but a dramatic expansion of B-SALT continues to give Main Street heartburn.

A new piece in Tax Notes lays out just how much pain the new regime would cause. Appropriately titled, “More SALTy Than Sweet?” the article beings:

Perhaps most importantly, the new SALT regime would allow for the continued viability of PTET regimes only in certain circumstances. However, PTET regimes would no longer be available in a variety of circumstances, and those circumstances are broader than an initial read might suggest.

Translation? Under the House bill, hundreds …

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admin2025-06-12T19:40:09+00:00June 12, 2025|

Oppose the Nancy Pelosi Tax Hike

There are a number of mysteries embedded in the House reconciliation bill, but number one among those is why the House is taking tax advice from former Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Buried in the House bill is a provision championed by the former Speaker to treat the active losses of a pass-through worse than any other type of loss. The provision targets family businesses and would effectively preclude many of them from ever realizing these losses. Here’s why the Senate should reject this ill-advised provision.

Background: Prior to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), taxpayers with active business losses could use …

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admin2025-06-03T18:32:57+00:00June 3, 2025|