Wealth Building Lessons

One of ways people save on their taxes is by splitting their income. You set up a separate legal entity for tax purposes and it pays its own taxes.

If you’re a regular w-2 wage earner (an employee working for someone else) you won’t have this option available to you.

But if you’re doing some consulting work on the side, if you’re self-employed or if you’re a small business owner, setting up a separate corporation can save you a lot of money.

Corporate tax rates are usually lower than individual tax rates on the first $75,000 of income. Plus you get the added benefit of being able to deduct business related expenses like car lease payments and driving expenses, business meals and business-related entertainment, business equipment like computers, and you can also set up a pension and profit sharing plan to fund your retirement.

After all these expenses are deducted, you may opt to pay out a salary to yourself for living expenses and you can retain any extra money in the corporation. If its under $75,000 it will be taxed at a lower rate than your personal taxes (so long as do don’t qualify as a professional corporation).

However, if you accumulate more than $250,000 in retained earnings, you might be subject to additional tax.

A lot of these deductions mentioned are available to self-employed individuals. However, the rest of the money flows into your personal tax return and your main aim is divert the income into a separate entity. At a time when Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) is hitting a lot of middle class families, it might make a lot of difference to self-employed individuals to set up a corporation so that they can tweak their income to obtain the maximum benefit of tax planning.

NOTE: I’m not a tax adviser, so please consultant your CPA. But I hope you get the gist of this post. By diverting income away from your personal tax return, it is possible to pay less taxes.

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1. Loopholes of the Rich: How the Rich Legally Make More Money and Pay Less Tax

2.Perfectly Legal : The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich–and CheatEverybody Else

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