{"id":4207,"date":"2017-01-16T05:48:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T13:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/?p=4207"},"modified":"2017-01-16T06:35:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T14:35:06","slug":"million-dollar-s-corporation-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/million-dollar-s-corporation-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Million Dollar S Corporation Mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock_97900073_SMALL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4212 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock_97900073_SMALL-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of young businessman who make the million dollar S corporation mistake\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock_97900073_SMALL-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock_97900073_SMALL.jpg 565w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Bad or erroneous tax advice costs small business owners in all sorts of ways. But deciding <em>not<\/em> to run a successful small business as an S corporation may\u00a0rank as the very worst\u00a0mistake an entrepreneur can make. In fact, we should probably call this the &#8220;million dollar S corporation mistake.&#8221; Because missing the S corporation opportunity may cost you and your family a million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Let me run you through the math. And then you can decide whether I&#8217;m right or merely exaggerating.<\/p>\n<h1>Reviewing the S Corporation&#8217;s Tax Saving<\/h1>\n<p>Let&#8217;s start by coming up with a reasonable estimate of what an S corporation might actually save you in the way of annual self-employment taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Suppose, for example, that you have a successful small business making $120,000 a year in profits. If you do the self-employment tax calculations that get reported on Schedule SE, you&#8217;ll pay about $17,000 in self-employment taxes in this situation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> A rough estimate of the self-employment tax you pay if you make roughly the FICA tax limit or less is 15% of your wages. But you can get more precise by applying the actual 15.3% tax to an &#8220;adjusted for the self-employment taxes&#8221; measure of your income. The easiest way to do this is to actually work through the Schedule SE form&#8217;s calculations.<\/p>\n<p>To determine whether you save payroll taxes with an S corporation, you need to compare the self-employment taxes you pay on your business profits if you operate as a sole proprietorship with the Social Security and Medicare taxes you pay on the &#8220;substitute&#8221; wages you&#8217;ll receive from your S corporation if you&#8217;re an\u00a0owner-employee.<\/p>\n<p>In a situation like the one described here, for example, you might pay yourself $60,000 in base wages if the S corporation adds health insurance to your compensation and if the S corporation makes a SEP-IRA contribution for you. (More on all this in a few paragraphs.)<\/p>\n<p>You need to work out the numbers for your situation. But if you did pay yourself a $60,000 wage and also provide yourself with $12,000 of health insurance, your W-2 box 1 wages equal $72,000.<\/p>\n<p>If you also add to that $72,000 of W-2 wages a generous SEP-IRA contribution,\u00a0you&#8217;re probably paying yourself reasonable wages. However, you&#8217;re only paying payroll taxes on that $60,000 of base wages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> One of the interesting things that happens with an S corporation is that the self-employment health insurance deduction and the SEP-IRA deduction reduce not just your &#8220;subject to income taxes&#8221; income but also your &#8220;subject to self-employment taxes&#8221; income.<\/p>\n<p>If you paid that 15.3% tax on only $60,000 of earnings rather than nearly $120,000 of earnings, you drop your payroll taxes burden to $9,180 annually.<\/p>\n<p>So, just to make this clear: In a case like we&#8217;re discussing here, an\u00a0S corporation drops your payroll taxes from roughly $17,000 a year to roughly $9,000 a year, creating nearly $8,000 of annual payroll tax savings.<\/p>\n<h1>Supercharging Your S Corporation Tax Savings<\/h1>\n<p>What you should probably consider doing, however, is using any payroll tax savings for a pension plan&#8211;and ideally a SEP-IRA plan since that means contributions bump up the shareholder&#8217;s compensation but in a manner that doesn&#8217;t trigger increased payroll taxes.<\/p>\n<p>With $8,000 of payroll tax savings, you can actually make about a $9,200 SEP-IRA contribution. You get the extra money, that extra $1,200,\u00a0from the extra tax savings the SEP-IRA contribution generates.<\/p>\n<p>That $9,200 SEP-IRA contribution grows to about a $1,000,000 in real-dollar, adjusted-for-inflation terms if you run your S corporation for 35 years and earn a 6% real rate of return.<\/p>\n<p>And so here&#8217;s the rub: If you can operate your venture as an S corporation but you don&#8217;t, you&#8217;re probably leaving a gigantic pile of money on the table. With a successful small business operation, you might even be making the million dollar S corporation mistake described in this post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> I created a simple Excel workbook to do the calculations referenced in this post. You can grab a copy of that worksheet here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/SCorporationMillionDollarMistake.xlsx\">scorporationmilliondollarmistake<\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Flies in the Ointment<\/h1>\n<p>Let me, to be fair, point\u00a0out some practical issues about the million dollar S corporation mistake.<\/p>\n<p>First, the S corporation must pay its shareholder employee a reasonable wage. In a situation where the business made $120,000, paying the shareholder-employee a $60,000 base wages amount, a $12,000 health insurance benefit, and a $9,200 pension fund contribution is probably going to put you within the realm of reasonableness. But you&#8217;d want to carefully check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> With $72,000 in combined base wages and health insurance benefits, a shareholder-employee would actually be able to contribute as much as 25% of that $72,000, or $18,000, to his or her SEP-IRA. That&#8217;d be an easy way to bump the total compensation number. Note that the earlier paragraphs of this discussion assume a $9,200 SEP-IRA contribution.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you do lose some Social Security benefits if you run this gambit. Someone who earns $120,000 a year roughly gets a $30,000 annual Social Security benefit while someone who earns $60,000 a year roughly gets a $24,000 a year Social Security benefit. You and I would probably take the extra $1,000,000 or whatever rather than the extra $6,000 a year. But we want to be aware of this wrinkle.<\/p>\n<p>A third, final point: Some other stuff happens when you operate as an S corporation. You&#8217;ll be burdened with some extra costs that you don&#8217;t have to pay if you&#8217;re only a sole proprietorship. You&#8217;ll gain some new benefits that you don&#8217;t enjoy now if you operate as an unincorporated business. The upshot here? You want to do a bit of research before you jump onto the S corporation band wagon.<\/p>\n<h1>Other Posts Related to the Million Dollar S Corporation Mistake<\/h1>\n<p>We talk a lot at this blog about Subchapter S corporations, but the three posts below are probably particularly helpful if you&#8217;re starting your research. And by the way note that if you do decide to form an S corporation that we provide downloadable, do-it-yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/s-corporation-kits-for-all-fifty-states\/\">S corporation kits for all fifty states.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/ebooks\/setting-low-salaries-for-s-corporations\/\">Setting Low Salaries for S Corporations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/are-one-person-s-corporations-illegal\/\">Are One-person S Corporations Illegal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evergreensmallbusiness.com\/payroll-accounting-rules-for-s-corporation-shareholder-health-insurance\/\">S Corporation Shareholder-employee Health Insurance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorporationsexplained.com\/average-s-corporation-salaries.htm\">Average S Corporation Shareholder-employee Salaries<\/a> (at my S Corporations Explained website)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad or erroneous tax advice costs small business owners in all sorts of ways. But deciding not to run a successful small business as an S corporation may\u00a0rank as the very worst\u00a0mistake an entrepreneur can make. 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