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Tuesday, August 11, 2026 Live Webcast

S Corporations: Key Issues, Compliance, and Tax Strategies - Tax Staff Essentials (X3-2026-TSE.SCF-20260811)

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EDT
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8 CPE Credits in TX

OVERVIEW

Tax planning strategies for new businesses considering electing S corporation status, and the pros and cons of switching from a C corporation to an S corporation.

DESIGNED FOR

  • Public accounting firm staff and senior associates
  • CPAs
  • S corporation tax filers

BENEFITS

  • Recognize the advantages and disadvantages of S corporation status.
  • Recognize when the S election becomes effective.
  • Identify shareholder consent rules and causes of invalid elections.
  • Identify permitted fiscal years, elections, and user fees.
  • Recognize events causing involuntary termination.
  • Recognize when an S corporation is subject to tax at the entity level.
  • Recognize how accumulated earnings and profits, accumulated adjustments accounts, other adjustments accounts, and shareholder bases are affected by distributions.
  • Recall the applicability of various S corporation filing requirements.

HIGHLIGHTS

  • Advantages and disadvantages of S corporations
  • Electing S corporation status
  • Termination of S corporation status
  • S corporation tax on built-in gains
  • S corporation pass-through to shareholders, basis, and losses
  • S corporation distributions
  • Taxable year of S corporations
  • S corporation passive activity rules, fringe benefits, and other considerations
  • COURSE LEVEL

    Basic

    PREREQUISITES

    None

    INSTRUCTOR

    James Harden

    James W. Harden, CPA, Ph.D., ChFC

    Ernst & Young LLP

    PRICING

    $319.00 - Member

    $339.00 - Nonmember

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    Note: Online pre-registration will close on August 11 at 8:30 AM.

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