The S Corporation Answer Book

The S Corporation Answer Book

Author: Sydney S. Traum

Publisher: Wolters Kluwer

Published: 2008-12-17

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13: 0735581517

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This quick-reference manual lets you help clients take full advantage of their S corporation status and minimize their taxes. it leads you directly to authoritative information on every aspect of the S corporation, enabling you to: Arm the S corporation against the potential tax traps hidden in the Small Business Tax Protection Act. Maximize the tax benefits of S corporation status. Make a qualified Subchapter S Subsidiary (QSub) election. Identify dispositions that will trigger the built-in gains tax. Avoid added tax liability or loss of S corporation status from passive investment income. Capitalize on the permissible differences in stock rights to facilitate estate planning and ownership transfers. Determine allocation of income, losses, and deductions in the termination year of the S corporation . Plus, there are citations To The controlling rules, regulations, and court decisions that will save you hours of research.


Reasonable Compensation

Reasonable Compensation

Author: Anne E. Moran

Publisher:

Published:

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781558718449

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" ... analyzes the issues relating to the deduction by an employer for a "reasonable allowance" under [section] 162(a) for compensation paid with regard to personal services rendered. It discusses in depth the factors applied in determining reasonableness, the necessity for the actual performance of services, situations where a deduction for reasonable compensation is not allowable, and other aspects of reasonable compensation. Various tax planning and controversy considerations also are discussed"--Portfolio description (p. iii).


Valuing a Business

Valuing a Business

Author: Shannon P. Pratt

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 768

ISBN-13:

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The book serves three purposes: a comprehensive reference and update for currently active business appraisers, a complete self-contained text for both academic courses and beginning practitioners, and an easy-to-use reference for nonappraisers who use and/or evaluate business appraisals. Updated and revised, Valuing a Business, Third Edition, includes theoretical principles and practical techniques for effective business valuation, including the valuation of limited liability corporations, S corporations, and partnerships; greatly expanded treatment of valuation approaches and methods; new and expanded chapters on minority control and lack of marketability issues; a new checklist on reviewing a valuation report, designed for nonappraisers as well as active practitioners; hundreds of new data sources and bibliographical references; dozens of additional court case references; a new three-chapter section on valuing intangible assets; and new chapters on valuations for ad valorem taxes and income tax planning.


S Corporations--formation and Termination

S Corporations--formation and Termination

Author: Samuel P. Starr

Publisher:

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ISBN-13: 9781558717022

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... reviews the rules regarding the formation and termination of S corporations. It examines the eligibility requirements which need to be met and the mechanics of filing the S corporation election form and shareholder consents, including the procedures for filing late S corporation elections and late shareholder consents. It also discusses the various ways an S corporation election may be terminated -- either voluntarily or involuntarily -- and the mechanisms for obtaining relief for an inadvertent termination and for obtaining permission to re-elect to be an S corporation within five years of a termination.