The Washington Wire Archive - The S Corporation Association

Carol Roth Pushes CTA Database Purge

Carol Roth’s latest column in The Blaze makes a powerful case for finishing the job on the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA): both repealing the law outright and purging the massive database of sensitive ownership information the government never should have collected.

As Roth writes:

The Trump administration has made Main Street a central priority — and limiting the reach of the Corporate Transparency Act’s Beneficial Ownership Information rule was one of its best decisions so far. The rule required small businesses to hand over sensitive ownership data to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, under threat of heavy fines and …

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admin2025-10-28T18:15:49+00:00October 28, 2025|

Talking Taxes in a Truck Episode 45: Piper Sandler’s Don Schneider on OB3’s Big Refunds

S-Corp highlighted a recent report by economist Don Schneider quantifying the tax relief millions Americans can expect in the next year as a result of the OB3. It’s a big number, so we invited Don, the Deputy Head of US policy at Piper Sandler, to explain why this could be the biggest refund season ever. Don also reviews the future of tariffs (and why they’re likely here to stay even if courts weigh in) and shares his thoughts on why the government shutdown might end in early November.

This episode of the Talking Taxes in a Truck podcast was recorded …

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admin2025-10-22T17:36:13+00:00October 22, 2025|

IRS Audits and Pass-Throughs

Tax Notes ran an article this morning on the status of the 2-year-old IRS exam unit dedicated to passthrough entities. Spoiler alert – with all the chaos over funding, leaks, investigations, and government shutdowns, it hasn’t got its footing yet. Here’s Tax Notes:

Initially unveiled in September 2023 as part of a broader compliance initiative focusing on wealthy taxpayers, the LB&I exam unit is responsible for starting all exams of passthroughs — partnerships, S corporations, and trusts — regardless of the entity’s size. The unit is supposed to help streamline workflows and boost the agency’s audit coverage of partnerships — entities that …

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admin2025-10-20T18:40:58+00:00October 20, 2025|

The Big Winners in OB3

For the Main Street business community, the benefits of the One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) are clear – the bill kept our tax rates low, made permanent the 20-percent small business deduction, and retained full deductions for the state and local taxes we pay on our pass-through business income.

Cumulatively, these provisions will save pass-through business owners more than $100 billion a year. That’s real money they can invest right now in new equipment, new workers, and higher wages.

The case for family tax relief in OB3 is just as strong. As we’ve noted, provisions benefitting middle-income families – including the …

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admin2025-10-16T18:46:57+00:00October 16, 2025|

Australian CbC Reporting and S-Corps, Continued

The S Corporation Association today sent a letter to the Australian Tax Office (ATO) building on our ongoing discussions regarding how Australia’s proposed Country-by-Country (CbC) reporting rules could affect S corporations operating in the United States.

By way of background, Australia is in the process of implementing new CbC reporting requirements they say will provide greater transparency for multinational companies doing business in the country. These rules would apply to sizable companies doing business in Australia, including large S corporations.

S corporations are pass-through entities, however, taxed at the shareholder rather than the entity level, and therefore do not pay …

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admin2025-10-10T15:44:53+00:00October 10, 2025|