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The Money Pump

This money pump represents the way you generate cash for your personal use. If you are an employee the outflow from the pump represents the cash generated for your employer from your efforts.

Your share is mostly represented as your wage. If the pump represents your business the outflow is the gross cash generated by the operations of the business.

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What is "Reasonable Compensation"?

What is Reasonable Compenasation to the IRS?Reasonable Compensation is a current high priority issue for the IRS concerning all corporations, especially S corporations

Wage Compensation for Corporation Officers

Corporate officers are specifically included within the definition of employee for FICA (Federal Insurance Contribution Tax Act), FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax Act), and federal income tax withholding under the Internal Revenue Code. When corporate officers perform services for the corporation, and receive or are entitled to receive payments, their compensation is generally considered wages. Sub-chapter S corporations should treat payments for services to officers as wages, and not as distributions of cash and property or loans to shareholder or limited liability company members.

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What You Need to Know Before Starting a Business

new biz start upCritical Areas of Consideration

Creating A Business

Most people who want to start a business have the same question, what do I need to know to have a business that works? Building a successful business remains one of the great mysteries in our modern society. Is the secret luck, hard work, who you know, what you know, or unknowable? While there are many sources of information on each of the various parts of a business, none seem to be complete, because it is a very complex process.

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