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- @028 CHAP 8
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- │ CLOSELY-HELD C CORPORATIONS │
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- A "closely-held C corporation" is a regular corporation
- that is owned by only one person or controlled (over 50% of
- its stock) by five or fewer individuals. Elaborate "attri-
- bution" rules apply so that a person is considered to al-
- so own shares that are owned by certain related persons,
- such as children, other controlled corporations, etc.
-
- Thus, if you have 9 children, you can't give them each 10%
- of the stock of a corporation, keep the other 10% for your-
- self and say that no five persons owns over 50% of the com-
- pany -- The attribution rules will deem you to be the owner
- of 100% of the stock in such case, and the corporation will
- be considered a closely-held C corporation (unless it el-
- ects to be an S corporation).
-
- The primary disadvantage of having a corporation be treated
- as a closely-held C corporation is that it may not offset
- "passive activity" losses against portfolio income (such as
- dividends and interest income). However, unlike an indi-
- vidual, such a corporation IS allowed to offset passive
- losses against its "net active income" (unless it also hap-
- pens to be considered a "personal service corporation"). C
- corporations that are neither "closely-held C corporations"
- nor "personal service corporations" are not subject to the
- passive loss restrictions at all, and thus are allowed to
- offset passive losses fully against all kinds of income.
-
- @IF117xx]NOTE: @NAME is a C corporation.
- @IF117xx]
- @IF110xx]It also appears, from the information you have provided,
- @IF110xx]that your company is a "closely-held C corporation," as de-
- @IF110xx]scribed above, which may thus be unable to fully utilize
- @IF110xx]any "passive activity" losses.
- @IF112xx]However, it appears that it would not be considered a "close-
- @IF112xx]ly-held C corporation," based on the fact that no 5 or fewer
- @IF112xx]individuals directly (or indirectly) own more than 50% of
- @IF112xx]the stock of @NAME.
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