Tax Planning Workbook - 2021 and Beyond

This workbook is a hands on process. Our intent is to show you the process of producing a tax plan for your business.

Tax Planning is to make you aware of:

• Some of the many tactics allowed by tax law.
• Ways you can maneuver business activities to bring taxes down both business and personal.
• The process of developing a tax plan.

Getting started:

You will need your business’ financial statements year to date. These statements then need to be projected to the end of this calendar year.

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Picturing Your Financial World

Identifying your financial assets and their relationships

One way to see your financial world and its many aspects is a “Playing Field Graphic.” This graphic shows all of the “players” in your financial world. “Players” are entities or activities that exist in your financial world. The “Players” tend to be accumulated but not necessarily planned.

Financial World “Playing Field Graphic”, a picture of your financial world

Your Financial World “Playing Field Graphic” is a pictorial representation of all of your financial assets in the form of players (entities and activities that make up your financial situation).

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What is "Reasonable Compensation"?

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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