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Monday, October 26, 2026 Live Webcast

Reducing a Business Owner Client’s Exposure to Social Security and Self-Employment Taxes (E2610152)

11:00 AM - 12:40 PM EDT

Registration: 10:30 AM EDT

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2 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

Many business owner clients wish to minimize their Social Security and self-employment tax liabilities. This course provides accounting and finance professionals with the background to understand what kinds of income constitute self-employment income and earned income. It covers strategies that can be used to reduce clients' exposure to the self-employment tax and Social Security tax.

This course features a live instructor and has been specifically designed for the NJCPA.

DESIGNED FOR

Tax practitioners who advise clients with regard to their self-employment tax liability

BENEFITS

  • Determine when avoiding earned income/SE income works favorably for the client
  • Understand how hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiate between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Section 1402(a)(1) exclusions from the definition of self-employment income
  • Application of the SE tax to members of limited liability companies
  • Taking a self-employed owner's health insurance deductions against self-employment tax
  • How using the S corporation and the MMLLC treated as a partnership can help reduce an individual's exposure to self-employment tax
  • How hiring a spouse and/or child helps reduce self-employment tax
  • Differentiating between income treated as self- employment income and income that is not self-employment income

COURSE LEVEL

Intermediate

PREREQUISITES

Basic knowledge of individual income tax

ADVANCE PREPARATION

None

ADDITIONAL NOTES

  • Qualifies for IRS credit

INSTRUCTOR

Gregory Carnes

Gregory A. Carnes
(4.6)

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PRICING

$99.00 - Member

$137.00 - Nonmember

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Note: Online pre-registration will close on October 26 at 10:30 AM.

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