This week the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing to consider reforms that would promote equality and growth for S corporations. Rick Klahsen, a member of the S Corporation Association’s Board of Advisors testified on our behalf.
Rick’s testimony reviewed the dramatic growth of S corporations over the last half-century and identified critical reforms Congress should consider to improve the S corporation rules and level the playing field …
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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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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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