Reporting & Filing Requirements
The guidance focuses on nonidentical governing provisions; principal-purpose determinations regarding the one-class-of-stock requirement; disproportionate distributions; certain errors on forms; missing administrative or acceptance letters for an S or QSub election; and the requirement to file returns consistent with an S election.
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.
Practitioners may face a difficult analysis in helping their clients understand their possible PTE election opportunities.
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.
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.
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.
This article discusses who qualifies to take the credit, how to make the election, the calculation and allocation of the credit, and how to report it.
An S corporation shareholder cannot unilaterally change an S corporation’s tax election in order to claim FICA tip credits.
Chief Counsel Advice was issued regarding who is ultimately liable for payment of employment taxes when using a professional employment organization.
Clients who wish to have income from services be treated as income of their corporations should have revise independent contractor agreements so that payments are made to their corporations.
Income earned by financial adviser was his, not the income of his wholly owned S corporation, and was therefore subject to self-employment tax.
Temporary and proposed regulations extend the religious and family member FICA and FUTA tax exceptions to disregarded entities.
The IRS issued final regulations clarifying the treatment of disregarded entities with respect to employment and certain excise taxes.
Editor: Kevin F. Reilly, J.D., CPA The IRS has issued final regulations that treat qualified subchapter S subsidiaries (QSubs) and other disregarded entities (DEs) as separate entities for federal employment tax and certain excise tax purposes (TD 9356). Although the regulations are effective as of August 16, 2007, the employment