These common instruments raise special considerations in the S corporation context.

CPAs can help their clients determine what is a reasonable salary to pay shareholder employees (SEs) of S corporations, thus satisfying an IRS priority to collect proper amounts of employment taxes.

To avoid federal employment taxes, S corporations may be tempted to understate the wages and salaries of employee/shareholders. The IRS however, may recharacterize what S corporations classify as ...

If you’re self-employed, one way to help avoid higher Social Security and Medicare taxes is to organize your business as an S-corporation. If you’re self-employed, you’ll usually have to pay higher ...

Business entity type and tax structure impact your organization’s finance and compliance requirements. Two popular choices are limited liability companies (LLCs) and S-corps. Although the arrangements ...

If you’re self-employed, you’ll usually have to pay higher Social Security and Medicare taxes, collectively known as self-employment taxes, than if you were an employee of a company. One way to help ...