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20WS-0230: Surgent's Reducing Your Business Owner Clients' Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes (Webinar)

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Friday, June 5, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am Central Time
2 CPE (2 technical)

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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 and strategies that can be used to reduce their clients' exposure to the Self-Employment tax.

Major subjects

  • 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 taken 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 children helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiating between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

Learning objective(s)

  • Identify what kinds of income are and are not subject to Social Security and self-employment tax
  • Understand how the self-employment tax applies to general partners, limited partners, and LLC members
  • Determine how using a pass-through entity can reduce or eliminate employment tax for the principals and family members
  • Understand how the 0.9% tax and the 3.8% tax apply to self-employment income and earned income

Who should take this program?

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

Fees

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More program information

Instructor Michael Tucker, PhD, LLM, JD, CPA
Location Online
Area
of study
Taxation
Field(s)
of study
Taxes - Technical (2.0)
Level Intermediate
Format Group Internet Based
Sponsor Surgent
NASBA ID#: 103212
Prerequisites Prereq. Basic knowledge of individual income tax
Advance
prep
None
Cancellation
policy
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If you have questions about this event, please call us at 952-831-2707.