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- From: McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Date: 24 Dec 92 20:48 PST
- Subject: Re: S-corp advantages and disadvantages
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- References: <1992Dec23.163901.3610@ctaeng.com>
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- |One thing I have heard is that one advantage you have with S- Corporation
- |is that you do not have to pay any social security tax on the net
- |dividends that are passed on to the share holders. This is difference
- |from single-proprietership where there is 15+% social security taxes.
- |Can someone verify if this is true? In the books I read, no one has
- |quoted this as an advantage of S-corp. May be I am missing something here?
- |chandra
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- S-Corps are generally used to pass along profits or losses, not dividends,
- to shareholders. Profits and losses from S-Corps are reported on Schedule
- E and are not subject to SS tax, just income tax. Proprietor earnings are
- reported on Schedule C, which is subject to SS tax. So you have a point.
- If either type of corporation pays dividends, these are not deductible to
- the corporation. So both you and the corporation pay income tax on the
- same money, commonly known as "double taxation." DMcKenzie
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