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Two types of Corporate Business Taxes and its advantages

Two types of Corporate Business Taxes and its advantages

Corporate taxes are collected from the businesses of different sizes and they have constituted to be third biggest entity for the states to collect revenue after individual taxes and payroll taxes. The corporations in the past have been taxed 15% to 35% but with the new Tax cut and Jobs act has brought down the percentage of taxes to 21%. The corporate is always finding a way to lower the tax cut and if they know how to work around the tax code they can get cash-rich and taxed very less as compared to what they are supposed to be. 

  • S-Corporation

Many businesses in past and even now have registered themselves as S corporations which means that they have put their earnings in the shareholders credit and they are the ones who are taxed for profits and losses. This means that the tax percentage that is paid by corporate businesses is lower down to a considerable amount. 

The corporate businesses that have their branches overseas are the ones that rather than bringing their money back to the country they invest it right there. In the 2018, the tax cut act did make a change where the companies are not to be taxed on foreign profits. This is supposedly to encourage corporations to bring back the money to US but of course it is not going to be  a very easy process to change the minds of the corporates who are very used to of cutting corners on the taxes one way or another. 

  • Foreign corporate business taxes:

Just like the US business corporate has to pay the taxes, the foreign companies that are working in the US territory has to pay their taxes too. The same rules and the tax cuts that are applicable on the US based companies are also implemented on the foreign corporates. 


Advantages of corporate taxes:

Even though corporates tend to avoid the corporate taxes there are certain advantages that cannot be overlooked:

  • Corporate tax returns help deduct the medical insurances for the families.
  • The other benefit is the deduction of the retirement benefits along with the tax free trusts. 
  • A corporation when filing corporate business taxes can always deduct the losses and do not have to provide the proof right away. On the other hand when it comes to the individual taxes, they have to provide the proof even before they could deduct the losses. Constituting the fact that corporates are safeguarded for future when they pay their taxes. 

The corporate taxes are rather very uncommon since tax code can provide with a lot of loopholes that can benefit the corporates, on the other hand, now tax cut act has also given a major relief to the corporates in 2018. 

Not all of the corporates are going to take benefit of it but of course the ones that do will not only be flourishing themselves but also providing the revenue back to the country. 

Form 1120

The individual taxes are filed on form 1040, similarly the form that is to be selected for corporate taxes is form 1120. For filing the taxes for small businesses it can be done by the person him/herself but if your business is growing and you would like to have more clarity and get it down more efficiently, it is always a good idea that the tax preparer or the tax accountant proficient for the corporate taxes works on your tax returns. 

Information that you will require for the tax preparer to go further with tax return preparation includes:

  • You need to have the Employer ID (EIN)
  • Total assets, goods sold, dividends, royalties, interests and rent.
  • The salaries, pension, advertising, employee benefit program etc. are the important informations that you can gather from the corporate financial officer. 

If you are willing to cross-check with the accountants tax paper or do the tax returns on your own for your company there are many online softwares designed particularly for the corporate business taxes. As long as you have collected all the information that is to be required and you have the previous years’ tax papers as an example for you it is easier for you to file the taxes without any hiccup.  



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