Surgent's Advanced Critical Tax Issues for S Corporations

Overview

This course goes beyond the basics and addresses important practical issues that an experienced practitioner must know. Even if you have attended other S corporation courses, you will learn something new in this course.

Highlights

• Final regulations on “eligible terminated S corporations” (ETSCs)
• Cases, rulings, and tax law changes affecting S corporations
• Compensation planning in S corporations, including limitations in a family-controlled business; self-employment tax issues, including IRS efforts to address underreporing of S corporation officer compensation
• Use of redemptions: still some advantages
• Planning for the liquidation of an S corporation
• Tax issues for family ownership of S corporation stock
• Impact of the tax on net investment income on sales of S corporation stock
• Stock basis: Loss limitations, AAA, and distribution issues in depth
• Debt basis: what the regulations on back-to-back loans mean to investors
• Estate planning for S corporation shareholders, including buy-sell agreements, QSubs, ESBTs, and uses of life insurance
• Built-in gains: the 5-year recognition period
• S corporation structuring: one class of stock
• Methods of accounting
• Legislation on mortgage interest reporting, basis, statute of limitations, and tax return due dates

Prerequisites

A basic course in S corporations; some experience in advising S corporations and their shareholders

Designed For

All practitioners and controllers who have attended a basic S corporation course and want to understand more complex issues and their practical implications

Objectives

• Understand how stock basis, AAA, and other limitations are determined
• Appreciate how corporation planning can be used in an S corporation to change the effects of the one-class-of-stock rule
• Understand what S corporation issues are being debated with the Service, settled in courts, and guided by administrative decisions

Preparation

None

Notice

This course is offered by a 3rd party vendor and will not be accessible in the My CPE Tracker section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by Surgent Professional Education.