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- From: ralph@swmerc.rain.com (Ralph Merwin)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: S-corp advantages and disadvantages
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.173703.8758@swmerc.rain.com>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 17:37:03 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.163901.3610@ctaeng.com> <1426500315@igc.apc.org>
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- In article <1426500315@igc.apc.org> mcaldon@igc.apc.org (McAldon International Inc.) writes:
- >
- >|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
- >
- >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
-
-
- S-Corps don't pay income taxes. All profits are passed on to shareholders
- as dividend income, which is subject to income tax but not to social
- insecurity tax. Hence, there is no "double taxation" as there is in a
- C-Corp.
-
- If the corporation also pays the owner(s) some sort of salary, the owner
- will declare this as earned income and the corporation will declare the
- salary as a payroll expense.
-
- Ralph
-
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