S Corporation

The decision to start your own business is a great step in life, and we are here to help. To be successful entrepreneurs need:

• A great service or product to provide to the public
• Guidance to find the intelligent way to structure the business

Poorly thought out business structures, often a Sole Proprietorship sometimes called a "Schedule C", can have taxes drain the life out of the core business, and expose the investors other assets to dangerous external liabilities. Fortunately, we have a tool that gives us great flexibility — the Limited Liability Company.

See: Wage Compensation for S Corporation Officers<

When corporate officers perform services for the corporation, and receive or are entitled to receive payments, their compensation is generally considered wages.  Subchapter S corporations should treat payments for services to officers as wages and not as distributions of cash and property or loans to shareholders… 

"Distributions and other payments by an S corporation to a corporate officer must be treated as wages to the extent the amounts are reasonable compensation for services rendered to the corporation."

As your accounting and tax consultants, we advise our S Corporations to pay a Reasonable Salary to its officers who work for the company.