The Washington Wire - The S Corporation Association

Tax Threat Looms Large Despite Bipartisan Deal

Last week’s on, off, and on-again bipartisan deal was confusing, but it did make clear President Biden’s intention to advance a more expansive partisan package regardless of the bipartisan bill’s fate.

Work on that expanded package has already begun. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer kicked off the budget reconciliation process earlier in the month, and Budget Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders is now in the process of putting together a spending framework, reportedly in the $6 trillion range, with $3 trillion in offsets.

With moderate Democratic Senators Joe Manchin, Jon Tester and others voicing concern over the size of …

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admin2021-07-01T16:18:57+00:00July 1, 2021|

Business Community Rallies to Support Pass-Through Deduction

More than 100 trade associations today voiced their opposition to proposed legislation which would weaken the Section 199A pass-through deduction.

The provision is an essential part of the Tax Code, and helps individually- and family-owned Main Street businesses remain competitive in an era of economic consolidation and concentration. Section 199A has also proven critical in enabling those businesses which were hardest hit during the pandemic to survive.

As the letter released today makes clear, rolling back or otherwise limiting the deduction would have a severely detrimental effect on the 95 percent of American businesses organized as pass-throughs.

Below is the comprehensive …

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admin2021-06-22T13:52:07+00:00June 22, 2021|

Are Pass-Through Businesses “Audit Privileged”?

At a hearing last week, Finance Chair Ron Wyden stated:

More than two out of every three dollars earned by partnerships in this country go to the top one percent of earners. These are sophisticated entities that bring in big revenue. However, the most recent data shows that out of millions of partnership returns filed in 2018, only 140 were audited. If you’re a wealthy tax cheat in a partnership, your odds of getting audited are slightly higher than your odds of getting hit by a meteorite. It’s an audit rate of 0.00004 percent. On the other hand, …

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admin2021-06-15T17:12:58+00:00June 15, 2021|

SALT Parity Bills Hit Governor’s Desk in CO and IL

Our SALT Parity reform bills continue to roll across the country. Since 2018, 13 states have adopted our parity legislation. Colorado and Illinois, whose legislatures recently approved similar bills, are just a Governor’s signature away from becoming states 14 and 15 on that list.

SALT Parity enables S corporations and partnerships to deduct the full amount of their state and local tax (SALT) payments, just like C corporations can. If enacted across the country, we estimate that over 3 million pass-through businesses would receive some $6 billion in annual tax relief, all at no cost to the …

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admin2021-06-11T15:54:15+00:00June 11, 2021|

Revisiting the Outlook for Tax Policy

The Biden administration’s tax proposals pose a triple threat to individually- and family-owned businesses. They raise taxes on Main Street Employers when they earn income, when they sell the business, and when they pass the business on to their kids. The business community is understandably alarmed at the prospect that these policies could be enacted, but exactly what are their prospects and what is the timing of potential action? Here is the latest.

Later, Not Sooner

Three announcements last week helped clarify the process, timing, and content of a potential tax and spending package in Congress:

First, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer …

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admin2021-06-08T20:31:55+00:00June 8, 2021|