A standard S corporation tax strategy is to pay a low salary to save on payroll taxes.
Earlier this year, we published an article titled “Reasonably Low Salary for S Corporation Owner” that addresses what you need in order to justify a low salary and states that the zero salary is out.
David E. Watson, CPA, a tax partner in the Iowa accounting and wealth management firm of Larson, Watson, Bartling, and Juffer (LWBJ) suffered a salary-too-low problem.
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