Gain a better understanding of the various considerations that go into making a choice of entity decision.
There are a number of entity forms that are available when a business or investment enterprise is started. Many lawyers, accountants, and business people fall back on a form that they have used in the past or is recommended to them by someone who is not familiar with of the variables associated with the different forms of business. Unfortunately, it is often the case that the recognition that a poor choice has been made only occurs after the error can't be corrected or can only be corrected at a significant cost in time, money, and effort. This topic will help anyone who is responsible for establishing a business or investing in it to understand the factors that they should be considering in making entity choices, including the benefits and detriments of the different forms of doing business or holding investments. Failure to consider these issues may result in significant additional costs, including taxes, exposure to lawsuits and administrative costs.
Learning Objectives
- You will be able to identify Corporate Governance Issues
- You will be able to differentiate between the various entity types
- You will be able to recognize Judicial Scrutiny types
- You will be able to recognize the basics of Corporate tax
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Agenda
Overview of Corporate Governance Issues
- Fiduciary Duties of Care and Loyalty
- Judicial Scrutiny
- Ability to Modify
Choice of Entity
- Entity Options
- Choice Factors
- C Corporation Issues
Organizing a Corporation and Basics of C Corporation Taxation
- Section 351
- Shares for Services and Intangible Assets
- Buying and Selling Corporate Stock, Including Section 1244 and 1202
S Corporation Basics
- Eligibility and Election
- S Corporation Subsidiaries
- Special Issues - Big Tax, Section 338(H)(1), Reorganizations
Organizing a LLC and Basics of LLC Taxation
- Check the Box Election
- Flexibility in Allocations
- Profits Interests
Compensation and Section 83
- General Rule
- Substantial Risk of Forfeiture and Non-Transferable
- Section 83(B) Election
Corporate Formalities
- Why Comply With Them?
- What Are They?
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Leo N. Hitt
Reed Smith LLP
- Partner in the Tax Group of Reed Smith LLP’s Pittsburgh office
- Practice includes counseling in all areas of federal income taxes, including corporations, partnerships, specialty entities, such as RICs, REITs and REMICs, and international tax transactions (outbound and inbound)
- Frequent speaker before a variety of tax, legal, and business groups
- Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Author and co-author of numerous publications related to business and taxation, including Rethinking the Obvious: Choice of Entity After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Pittsburgh Tax Review, Volume 16 (2018) http://taxreview.law.pitt.edu
- Member of Pittsburgh Tax Club and Allegheny Tax Society
- LL.M. degree, New York University School of Law; J.D. degree, cum laude, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; B.A. degree, summa cum laude, University of Pittsburgh
- Court Admissions include U.S. Tax Court, U.S. District Court - Western District of Pennsylvania, and State Supreme Court - Pennsylvania
• Can be contacted at 412-288-3298 or [email protected]
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