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Corporate business owners can help ensure compensation is “reasonable” under the tax laws.

Four Ways Corporate Business Owners Can Help Ensure Their Compensation Is “Reasonable”

If you’re the owner of an incorporated business, you know there’s a tax advantage to taking money out of a C corporation as compensation rather than as dividends. The reason: A corporation can deduct the salaries and bonuses that it pays executives, but not dividend payments. Therefore, if funds are paid as dividends, they’re taxed twice, once to the corporation and once to the recipient. Money paid out as compensation is only taxed once — to the employee who receives it.

For tax purposes, the “cost” (or “basis”) an individual gets in property that he or she inherits from another person is important information to know.

There’s a Favorable “Stepped-Up Basis” If You Inherit Property

A common question for people planning their estates or inheriting property is: For tax purposes, what’s the “cost” (or “basis”) an individual gets in property that he or she inherits from another? This is an important area and is too often overlooked when families start to put their affairs in order.

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