S Corporation Income Taxation
Revised draft instructions for partnership and S corporation Schedules K-2 and K-3 contain significant changes to the requirements to qualify for the domestic filing exception for filing and furnishing the 2022 schedules.
The IRS addressed a consolidated corporation’s request to apply Sec. 1362(f) to provide relief from termination of the corporation’s subsidiary’s S corporation and QSub elections.
This item discusses nonprorated S corporation rollovers and the unexpected tax consequences.
Twenty-nine states have enacted a passthrough entity tax as a possible workaround to the federal state and local tax deduction cap.
Practitioners may face a difficult analysis in helping their clients understand their possible PTE election opportunities.
A number of disqualifying events can terminate a corporation’s S status, and not all of those events are listed in the statute or immediately obvious.
The AICPA S Corporation Taxation Technical Resource Panel summarizes recent developments.
Approval of an S election by the IRS and/or a state jurisdiction does not mean that S corporation status remains safe and sound forever.
Generally, a trust cannot hold stock of an S corporation; however, grantor trusts, testamentary trusts, voting trusts, ESBTs, and QSSTs are permissible S corporation shareholders (Sec. 1361(c)(2)).
This article compares the relative advantages and disadvantages of a QSST versus an ESBT in estate planning.
The IRS delays e-filing capability for schedules reporting S shareholders’ items of international tax relevance, earlier forecast for mid-June, to July 24.
In eight new FAQs on its website, the IRS covers some special issues, including several that it says will be added to the forms’ instructions.
AAA and AE&P calculations are key to determining stock basis and, thus, the taxability of shareholder distributions.
S corporation stock was not subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture because the stock forfeiture provision was unlikely to be enforced.
The IRS, citing earlier problems e-filing a new form reporting S corporation owners’ basis, has granted relief to certain farmers and fishermen who missed their March 1 filing deadline.
What partnerships, S corporations, and others with foreign partnership interests need to know for tax year 2021 and beyond.
stock and debt basis under Sec. 1366(d)(1). Failing to properly track basis may require a recomputation of the shareholder’s basis.
To be deductible at the entity level, payments by passthrough entities of state and local taxes should be made in the tax year of the liability, but state-specific elections may complicate that timing, tax advocates advise.
To avoid the hobby
loss rules, with
their limitation on
deductible expenses,
an activity must be
engaged in for profit;
electing S status
can help a taxpayer
establish profit
motive.
This item discusses Illinois Legislature's S.B. 2531, which includes a PTE tax that allows a workaround to the federal $10,000 limitation for state and local tax deductions.