The Washington Wire Archive - The S Corporation Association

Tax Relief Delayed - Pressure for Offsets Grows

Congress returns to legislative business this week following a week long Columbus Day recess. With numerous outstanding issues for Congress to consider before adjourning for the year (possibly by Thanksgiving, but December remains a distinct possibility), the small and family owned business community must continue to be vigilant for any misguided efforts to raise payroll taxes on S Corps and other small businesses.

The first priority of the tax writing committees continues to be legislation to encourage the physical restoration of the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina. Both the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee are expected …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00October 18, 2005|

S-CORP Fights Proposed Tax Increases As Congress Searches for Revenue

As S-CORP members will recall, this year began with a Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) proposal to impose a nearly 3 percent additional tax on the full distributable share of profits for S corporation shareholders. The proposed tax would raise an astonishing $57.4 billion over ten years by applying to shareholders of S corporations as well as to partnerships. Then in May, the Department of Treasury’s Inspector General for Tax Administration in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee (May 25, 2005) also endorsed the proposition that the net earnings of S corporations should be subject to payroll taxes. This was …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00October 12, 2005|

S CORP ALLIANCE CONTINUES TO MAKE HEADLINES!

For those who missed it, Monday’s Congress Daily does an excellent job of outlining the challenge confronting S Corporations and other flow-through businesses as Congress prepares to take up reconciliation, tax reform, an extension of expiring tax provisions, and other tax legislation this Congress. Continued interest by the press regarding the Joint Committee’s recommendation is a clear signal this issue is not going away…

JCT and the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration have proposed changing the rules to ensure that payroll taxes are levied on all a firm’s income, regardless of how it is counted. Concern in the small …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00August 11, 2005|

INCREASED S CORP SCRUTINY

INCREASED S CORP SCRUTINY — JULY 28TH, THE HILL

Yesterday’s “The Hill” takes a look at the two challenges facing the S Corp community today- by modernizing S Corp rules to ensure S Corporations continue to thrive, and blocking misguided proposals to apply payroll taxes to all S Corporation income, regardless if that income is due to capital investment or even distributed to shareholders. Full article is attached below.

IRS FOCUSED ON S CORPS: JULY 27th, WALL STREET JOURNAL

Wednesday saw another story in the Wall Street Journal on the IRS’s plan to conduct special audits of 5,000 S Corps over the next …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00July 29, 2005|

IRS TARGETS S CORPS!

As a follow-up to its broader “Tax Gap” study completed earlier this year, the IRS yesterday announced it will engage in a multi-year study of about 5000 taxpayers reporting S corporation income or losses. According to the IRS release (see below), the study “will be used to more accurately gauge the extent to which the income, deductions and credits from S corporations are properly reported on returns filed by the flow through corporations and their shareholders.”

The S Corporation Alliance strongly supports appropriate IRS administration of the tax code, but numerous questions arise from the IRS’s announcement, including why the IRS …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00July 26, 2005|