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Webcast: Surgent's Reducing a Business Owner Client's Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes

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ASCPA Live Online Webcast

Webcast, AZ 85008

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2.0 Credits

Member Price $75.00

Non-Member Price $100.00

Overview

Many business owner clients wish to minimize their Social Security and self-employment tax liabilities. This course provides tax practitioners with the background to understand what kinds of income constitute self-employment income and earned income. It covers strategies that can be used to reduce clients’ exposure to the self-employment tax and Social Security tax.

  • Presented by: Mike Tucker, Ph.D., LL.M., J.D., CPA

Highlights

  • Section 1402(a)(1) exclusions from the definition of self-employment income
  • Application of the SE tax to members of limited liability companies
  • Taking a self-employed owner's health insurance deductions against self-employment tax
  • How using the S corporation and the MMLLC treated as a partnership can help reduce an individual's exposure to self-employment tax
  • How hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiating between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of individual income tax

Designed For

Tax practitioners who advise clients with regard to their self-employment tax liability

Objectives

  • Determine when avoiding earned income/SE income works favorably for the client
  • Understand how hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiate between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

Non-Member Price $100.00

Member Price $75.00