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Wednesday, October 26, 2022 Live Webcast

Reducing a Business Owner Client’s Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes (E2210182)

3:00 PM - 4:40 PM EDT

Registration: 2:30 PM EDT

webcast

Vendor Platform

2 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

Many business owner clients wish to minimize their Social Security and self-employment tax liabilities. This course provides tax practitioners with the background to understand what kinds of income constitute self-employment income and earned income. It covers strategies that can be used to reduce clients' exposure to the self-employment tax and Social Security tax.

This course features a live instructor and has been specifically designed for the NJCPA.

DESIGNED FOR

Tax practitioners who advise clients with regard to their self-employment tax liability

BENEFITS

  • Determine when avoiding earned income/SE income works favorably for the client
  • Understand how hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiate between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Section 1402(a)(1) exclusions from the definition of self-employment income
  • Application of the SE tax to members of limited liability companies
  • Taking a self-employed owner's health insurance deductions against self-employment tax
  • How using the S corporation and the MMLLC treated as a partnership can help reduce an individual's exposure to self-employment tax
  • How hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiating between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of individual income tax

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for IRS

INSTRUCTOR

David Peters

David R. Peters, CPE, CFP, CLU, CPCU, MST, M.B.A.

David Peters is the founder and owner of Peters Tax Preparation & Consulting in Richmond, VA, as well as a financial advisor for Peters Financial, LLC. He has over 15 years of experience in financial services, including three years in the hedge fund industry and six years in the insurance industry. David was the first-ever Chief Financial Officer at Compare.com – a position he held for over three years. He is a national CPE instructor/discussion leader for the AICPA, Kaplan, and Surgent, and he was a recipient of Surgent’s Outstanding Discussion Leader award for 2019. He regularly teaches courses in accounting, finance, insurance, financial planning, and ethics throughout the United States. He is the advisor for business and industry topics for the South Carolina Association of CPAs and was a recipient of The American College of Financial Services’ 2019 NextGen Financial Services Professional Award. He holds four master’s degrees and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in financial planning. He contributes regularly to various CPA publications, including NCACPA’s Interim Report, SCACPA’s CPA Report, and VSCPA’s Disclosures. He was also a co-author of the 2018, 2019, and 2020 versions of the Virginia CPA Ethics course – a required course for all CPAs licensed in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Registered Representative offering securities through Cetera Advisor Networks LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Advisory services offered through Carroll Financial Associates, Inc., a Registered Investment Adviser. Carroll Financial and Cetera Advisor Networks, LLC are under separate ownership and are not affiliated with any other named entity.

PRICING

$99.00 - Member

$136.50 - Nonmember

Pre-Registration Closed

Online pre-registration for this event is now closed.

ADDITIONAL OPTIONS

Print a registration form

COURSE DEVELOPER

Surgent

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