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Minimizing a hobby loss issue by electing S status

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.

Current developments in S corporations

This update on recent developments in taxation relating to S corporations includes cases and rulings on eligible terminated S corporations, S corporation income and losses, the one-class-of-stock requirement, and other issues.

The built-in gains tax

The built-in gains tax applies to C corporations that make an S corporation election, and it can
be assessed during the five-year period starting with the first tax year for which the S election is effective.

Lack of economic substance dooms loss deductions

A taxpayer was not entitled to a passthrough loss
from the dissolution of an S corporation because the dissolution was part of a tax structure that did not have economic substance.