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Four shapes, and no favorite.

A company can be taxed as a disregarded thing, a partnership, an S corporation, or a C corporation, and the right one depends on who owns it, whether people are paid, and what the year actually does. We will walk the shapes with you. Fashion is a bad reason to pick a tax shape, and we stop when the facts stop.

An election has a calendar. Missing it means living with the default for a year. That is sometimes fine and sometimes expensive in time. The conversation belongs before the deadline, which is why it often belongs in the fall, next to the other choices that can still move.

A first class, and a first election.

Boyd High School took its first graduating class in 2008. A first class is a beginning people in town still remember with some pride. An entity's first tax election is a beginning too. It should be chosen while you can still say what the company is, not after a form has already assumed an answer.

If the company has been filing one way for years, changing it is a different conversation from starting. We look at what has already been filed before anyone talks about a new election. The past is a fact. The future is a choice.

Reasonable pay, said carefully.

If people who own the company are also paid, the pay has to make sense for the work. That sentence is the whole public version. There is no formula on this page, and there is no promised outcome. In the file, we look at the work, the pay, and the year together.

Payday still has to be set up on a provider you run before any of that pay exists. Setup is part of the entity conversation when wages are part of the shape. Running payday is not. The login stays yours.

What we will not do.

We will not tell you to form something you do not need. A licence question, a liability question, and a tax question are three different questions, and only the tax one is ours to walk. If you need a lawyer for the others, we say that.

We also will not leave the books on a chart that fights the election. Equity accounts that match the way the company is taxed make the year readable. A chart copied from a template often does not.

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