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Thursday, January 30, 2025 Live Webcast

Reducing a Business Owner Client’s Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes (X1-REXE-2025-01-WEBNR-30-01)

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
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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.

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

Michael Tucker

Michael J. Tucker, CPA, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M.

Ph.D., JD, CPA

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Michael J. Tucker is an employee of Surgent McCoy CPE, LLC and a consultant for the accounting firm of T.M. Byxbee Co. in Hamden, CT. He is the author of many professional articles and a veteran TV and live-seminar presenter. In addition, he heads up Surgent McCoy's webinar efforts, where he writes and hosts many of the webinars Surgent McCoy sponsors and presents. Mr. Tucker was a professor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT and worked with KPMG Peat Marwick and Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Tucker received his J.D. from New York University, his LL.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston.

PRICING

$89.00 - Member

$109.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on January 30 at 9:30 AM.

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