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- From: McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Date: 23 Dec 92 20:58 PST
- Subject: Re: S-corp advantages and disadvantages
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- |Does anyone have experience with the use of an S-corporation for the transfer
- |of wealth between family members? Specifically, I'm curious about LEGAL
- |ways of tranferring assets from one generation to the next via a family
- |held S - corporation
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- IMO a C-Corp is a better vehicle for this purpose. S-Corps are subject to
- more limitations and restrictions. I don't know of any reason to use
- an S-Corp except to use losses to reduce stockholders' annual income
- taxes. In that respect it has some advantages over a partnership and
- certainly a C-Corp. At one time, and probably now as well, any kind
- of a corporation that the IRS could classify as a personal investment
- holding company was subject to punitive taxes. So it is wise to have
- your corporation perform some functions other than investment holding.
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- |As I see it if family members of several generations are owners of the
- |corporation, they have control of the assets of the corporation. When
- |the elders pass away the corporation maintains control of the assets,
- |and the shares of stock are the only taxable assets in the estate.
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- I believe this is correct and in widespread use. Different classes of
- stock can be useful in protecting control by the elders while transferring
- real assets to succeeding generations.
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- |This brings up the question of how value is determined for the shares of
- |stock within a closely held s-corporation. Are there ways to tie the value
- |of stock to the working capital or annual profits of a company.
- |jeff
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- Trust your friendly IRS to handle this for you. Don't forget, your
- corporation must file annual tax returns; form 1120 for the C-Corp. I
- forget what the form for an S-Corp is; I have some lying around but
- because I shut my S-Corp down, they're not handy.
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- | DMcKenzie | "Time is the best teacher. |
- | mcaldon@igc.org | Unfortunately, it kills all its |
- | | pupils." Hector-Louis Berlioz |
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