Critical Decisions In The Choice Of Business Entity: Help Your Clients Make The Right Decisions FLEXCAST
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2.0 Credits
Member Price $98.00
Non-Member Price $113.00
Overview
Choice of business entity is a core determination for the formation of a business - and a decision with profound implications. The entity may be as simple as a sole proprietorship or as complicated as a large corporation. Each of the business entity options has advantages and disadvantages, including liability, federal and state taxes, required formalities, flexibility, cost of forming and operating the business, and more. The Qualified Business Income deduction of IRC Section 199A has placed even more importance on this choice. The proper choice is critical to the success and sustainability of the business and your clients will look to you as their trusted adviser to lay out the pros and cons of each entity.
Highlights
Sole Proprietorships Special Issues to Consider. Partnership Issues to Consider. Limited Liability Company Issues to Consider. C Corporation Issues to Consider. S Corporation Issues to Consider. New IRC 199A. Section 199A Strategies.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, financial professionals, enrolled agents and attorneys.
Objectives
Types of entities to be considered. Ownership issues. Liability issues. Management and control issues. Issues of simplicity, formality, and cost. Formation of the entity. Operation of the entity - tax considerations. Disposition of the business interest. Changing from one business entity to another.
Preparation
None.
Notice
This is a FlexCast (no exam required) and may be viewed only Monday - Saturday, 5am - 5pm PT. You may take up to one year from the date of purchase to complete the course. Pause your FlexCast and resume at a convenient day during the hours above. Partial credit for 2+ credit courses: If you are unable to complete the course in one sitting, partial credit can be awarded (minimum of one credit). To earn the remaining credits, you must return later and start the course from the beginning. Use chat to ask questions of a subject matter expert during the program.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Siegel, Western CPE
Steven G. Siegel, JD, LLM, is president of The Siegel Group, which provides consulting services to attorneys, accountants, business owners, family offices, and financial planners. Based in Morristown, New Jersey, the Group provides services throughout the United States.
Steven is the author of many books, including: The Grantor Trust Answer Book (2018 CCH); The Adviser’s Guide to Financial and Estate Planning(AICPA 2019); Federal Fiduciary Income Taxation (Foxmoor 2019); and Federal Estate and Gift Tax (Foxmoor 2016). He is also a co-author with Richard Oshins, Esq. of The Anatomy of the Perfect Modern Trust, Estate Planning Magazine January and February 2016.
In conjunction with numerous tax-planning lectures he has delivered for the National Law Foundation, Steven has prepared extensive lecture materials on the following subjects: planning for an aging population, business entities, preparing the audit-proof federal estate tax return, business acquisitions, representing buyers and sellers in sale of a business, dynasty trusts, planning with intentionally defective grantor trusts, estate planning, S corporations, divorce, and many others.
Steven has delivered hundreds of lectures to thousands of attendees in live venues and via webinars throughout the United States on tax, business, and estate planning topics on behalf of numerous organizations, including Western CPE, the Heckerling Institute on Estate Planning, Notre Dame Tax and Estate Planning Institute, CCH, National Law Foundation, AICPA, Yale School of Management, University of Chicago Business School, the National Society of Accountants, Cohn-Reznick, Foxmoor Education, many state CPA societies and estate planning councils, and on behalf of private companies.
He’s presently serving as an adjunct professor of law in the graduate tax program (LLM) of the University of Alabama School of Law, and he has served as an adjunct professor of law at Seton Hall University and Rutgers University law schools.
Steven holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa); a juris doctor from Harvard Law School; and an LLM in taxation from New York University Law School.
Non-Member Price $113.00
Member Price $98.00