JCT - The S Corporation Association

S Corp Payroll Tax Hike Resurfaces

Last week, Senate Democrats released a paper highlighting a dozen tax increases they would like to use to offset spending cuts in the current budget negotiations. As Politico reported:

Tax expenditures topping the list include the deduction corporations take when they move operations overseas and the carried interest loophole, which allows private equity and some other investment advisers to pay the lower capital gains tax rate on some of their income.

Also on the list is our old nemesis, the S corporation payroll tax hike. Labeled the Edwards Loophole by Republicans and the Gingrich Loophole by Democrats, the issue is …

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admin2019-02-01T20:19:39+00:00November 14, 2013|

Cliff Notes II

With less than 200 days left before Washington leads the economy over the fiscal cliff, the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has offered up more evidence that Congress needs to act to extend the current tax rates for everyone, including those business owners with higher incomes. As Bloomberg reports:

President Barack Obama’s plan to raise tax rates for the top 2 percent of U.S. households would mean higher taxes on the people who report 53 percent of business income reported on individual returns, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation.

According to the JCT, in 2013 nearly 1 million …

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admin2019-02-01T20:21:27+00:00June 20, 2012|

Corporate-Only Reform Takes One on the Chin

Tom Barthold of the Joint Committee on Taxation made the case to the Super Committee last week against attempting to reform the corporate side only.

It would be very difficult to wall off a number of provisions and say we’ll have one set of rules if you’re this type of entity and a potentially different set of rules if you’re another type of entity.

Later, in an exchange with Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Barthold went into more detail:

SEN. PORTMAN: If you lowered the corporate rate and did so by getting rid of the some of the existing preferences, and those preferences also …

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admin2019-02-01T20:24:45+00:00September 27, 2011|

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|

S CORP ALLIANCE LETTER: 36 SIGNORS AND COUNTING!

Good news! We’re up to 36 groups on the S Corp Alliance letter (see attached). Thanks to all who signed on in the last week: American Council of Engineering Companies, Associated Builders and Contractors, Associated Industries of Massachusetts, Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, Independent Community Bankers of America, Indiana Manufacturers Association, Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, Michigan Manufacturers Association, Mississippi Manufacturers Association, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Non-ferrous Founders’ Society, Oklahoma State Chamber of Commerce, Utah Manufacturers Association, and Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce.

Please remember we’re keeping the letter open, so if you know of any organization that would …

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admin2019-02-06T18:48:18+00:00July 1, 2005|