Surgent's Annual Tax-Planning Guide for S Corporations, Partnerships, and LLCs
Overview
As long as LLCs, partnerships, and S corporations form the backbone of many CPAs’ practices, in-depth knowledge of all tax aspects of these entities will be essential. The purpose of this practical course is to focus on planning issues in creating, operating, and liquidating S corporations, partnerships, and LLCs. This course is essential for CPAs in public accounting and industry who advise these entities or their investors.
Highlights
- Update on latest cases, rulings, and regulations including the final regs
- Provisions of Revenue Procedure 2022-19: Relief for S corporations
- Legislative update on retirement plan changes of the SECURE Act 2.0
- How to handle liabilities of LLCs
- Planning opportunities and pitfalls in determining basis and amounts at risk -- recourse and nonrecourse debt issues for LLCs, and much more
- Section 199A pass-through deduction planning
- Partnership planning -- Structuring partnership distributions and transfers of interests
- Optional basis adjustments -- §§754 and 732(d)
- Planning for the utilization of §179 and for the scheduled phase out of bonus depreciation beginning in 2024
- Basis, distribution, redemption, and liquidation issues of S corporations
- Compensation in S corporations
- Sale of a partnership -- the best planning concepts
- What you need to know about family pass-throughs -- Estate planning, family income splitting, and compensation planning
- Partnership and LLC allocations
- A brief look at possible future changes to the taxation of pass-through entities
- The who, what, when, where, and how of the new FinCEN BOI reporting requirements
Prerequisites
A basic course in partnership theory and S corporation theory
Designed For
Accounting and Financial Professionals in public accounting and industry who want to learn planning strategies relevant to S corporations, partnerships, and LLCs
Objectives
- Identify current issues that practitioners are most often called on to address
- Be familiar with planning techniques employed in dealing with the life cycle of pass-through entities
- Distinguish the roles S corporations and partnerships/LLCs play in the changing tax environment
- Evaluate the impact of recent legislation, guidance, and judicial decisions
- Identify planning opportunities under current laws and regulations
- Be familiar with the results of the case studies that reinforce key learning points
- Be familiar with retirement plan provisions of the SECURE Act 2.0
Preparation
None
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Michael Frost, AICPA
Mike Frost, CPA, EA is an associate and shareholder of MDA Professional Group, P.C. and has been with the Albertville office since 1989. Currently a tax partner, Mike specializes in all areas of income tax and small business consulting including but not limited to: Business and individual income tax preparation and planning, estate and retirement planning, estate, gift, and trust tax preparation, small business consulting, Medicare planning and other elder care, audit representation, religious groups and clergy. Mike has conducted CPE engagements and seminars for the Alabama Society of Enrolled Agents and the Childcare Resource Network of Alabama and is an instructor for the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mike has served as technical advisor for tax articles for the Sand Mountain Reporter newspaper, and has been a regular on the public speaking circuit. Mike also conducts in-house training in all areas of income tax for his firm. Mike graduated with “high honors and distinction” from Jacksonville State University with a major in accounting and a minor in finance and a 4.0 GPA. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Enrolled Agents, the Alabama Association of Enrolled Agents, and the Accountants Global Network, International. In addition, he is a graduate of the Tax Planning and Advising for Closely Held Businesses Certificate of Educational Achievement Program sponsored by the AICPA. Mike is an ordained minister and pastor. He enjoys music, and is a vocalist in a local Christian band. He is also active in his community as an Albertville Rotarian. Mike resides in Albertville, Alabama with his wife, Kay, and two children, Dylan and Sarah.
Non-Member Price $319.00
Member Price $299.00