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Best Business Structure For Taxes

Best Business Structure For Taxes

by | Feb 25, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi, my name is Bruce Roth, and my guest today is Dave Horwedel. Dave is the founder of Torchlight Tax and Financial Services. He is also an enrolled agent and tax expert in Las Vegas, NV. What is the best business structure for taxes? What type of corporations and corporate entities there are? And why one might choose one over the over?

I want to mention that I’m talking about the tax implications of this, and I’m not practicing law. But, there are two actual types of corporations.

The Best Business Structure for Taxes

There is a C-Corporation which is the major corporation. The C-Corporation has stockholders and they make a lot of money. They usually have corporate meetings and boards of directors meetings. And it’s a big deal. They actually have to pay corporate income tax on the profits on the profits that the corporation makes.

And then as they pay their shareholders in dividends, the shareholders have to pay individual taxes on the dividends they receive. That’s the big corporations, called a C-Corporation.

The other type of corporation is called an S-Corporation. An S-Corporation is a small business corporation, it has limits on how much money it can make. It can’t have more than 100 shareholders. But the main thing about an S-Corporation is that the income it makes automatically flows through to its shareholders, so it never makes an income as a corporate entity. It all gets credited to the individuals who own it, so there’s no double taxation.

And this is a very, very common thing that a small businessman. A self-employed person, they can become an S-Corporation, and they can have tax benefits for them. And it also shields them legally.

Now, there is one other entity that’s not actually a corporation, but everybody thinks it is. It’s called a limited liability company, or LLC. Now, the funny thing about an LLC is that it can apply to internal revenue service to be treated tax wise as an S-Corporation, and in my cases this will give them a significant break as far as the self-employment tax, social security, Medicare. So, there’s actually only two types of corporation really, there’s the C, then I have the S. But there’s also the LLC, that kind of half rates as one, and it’s something that people should be aware of. And it can have definite tax implications for how you do it, and you could also do it to shield yourself from lawsuits and things like that.

Thank you so much. Thank you for watching.

What Is IRS Representation?

What Is IRS Representation?

by | Feb 3, 2019 | Uncategorized

Hi. I’m Bruce Roth and my guest today is Dave Horwedel. Dave is an Enrolled Agent and the founder of Torchlight Tax. Dave, what is IRS representation?

What Is IRS Representation?

It means that because you have this Enrolled Agent status you can have your client sign a Power of Attorney naming you as their agent, and they can state exactly what they want you to handle, but basically it goes to the point where you fully represent the person before the IRS and the IRS doesn’t even talk to the person because you’re their agent, you’re authorized to represent them because they signed the Power of Attorney.

Okay. When might a person need someone to represent them before the IRS?

Well, let’s say you get a letter back from the IRS, you did your tax return and then they say, “You owe us $50,000”, you might want to have somebody represent you before the IRS in that circumstance, or if they’re going to do an audit on you it would not be a bad idea to have an Enrolled Agent there because, see, the Enrolled Agent knows the tax law, he knows what the IRS is supposed to do, he knows it and the IRS guy who’s there knows it, so they’re not going to try to push you around. They’re not going to try to cut any corners because they’re going to have to be totally … they’ll have someone there who knows what’s going on, and usually at an audit you can definitely help your client.

Tax Audit Representation Cost

You also could use an Enrolled Agent to do offers and compromise where you settle with the IRS for less than the full payment, when you negotiate installment agreements There’s also a thing called uncollectable status which basically means you have a large debt with the Internal Revenue Service, or you have a debt but it can’t be large. But at the present time you’re not making enough money to pay off that debt and you don’t have any assets that they can seize. You don’t own property that they can just take and is worth a lot of money. So, the IRS rules that you’re uncollectable and they leave you alone. They stop trying to bother you about that unless your income goes up or something changes they’re not going to collect that money.