An
eligible domestic corporation can avoid double taxation (once to the shareholders
and again to the corporation) by electing to be treated as an S corporation.
Generally, an S corporation is exempt from federal income tax other than tax on
certain capital gains and passive income. On their tax returns, the S corporation's
shareholders include their share of the corporation's separately stated items of
income, deduction, loss, and credit, and their share of nonseparately stated income
or loss.
If you
are an S corporation use the information in the charts below to help you
determine some of the forms that you may be required to
file.
Chart 1 - S
Corporation
If you are an S corporation then you may be liable
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