Income Tax Fundamentals 2020
Income Tax Fundamentals 2020
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ISBN: 9780357391129
Author: WHITTENBURG
Publisher: Cengage
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Introduction: To operate a business, a taxpayer generally chooses between individual trading, partnership, and corporation form of entity. The corporations can be of either S Corporation or C Corporation. The taxpayer needs to understand his business requirements properly for the smooth continuance of his business since each form of entity has different tax treatment. After 2018, a new 21 percent rate of tax was introduced for corporations. Corporations must include in ordinary taxable income all net capital gains income during the year for tax purposes and then the income taxed at a regular rate except in certain rare circumstances.

To choose: The option that is not required while the election of a Corporation as an S Corporation.

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