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Why would you not recommend S-corp taxation (LLC taxes as S-corp) for this purpose? Doesn't that give you the best of both worlds (easy management with pass-through taxation)? There are obviously headaches over an LLC (have to keep books, corporate meetings, etc...), but I feel those are outweighed otherwise by the savings by taking at least part of your income as S-corp distribution vs wages.

You clearly feel differently, I'm just curious why.

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the managerial overhead is not worth the difference (remember the professional fees required to run all this stuff). if my company made more revenue, i'd probably feel differently.

at the end of the day it comes down to how much revenue vs. overhead vs. capital structure you feel comfortable with.

We converted from filing as LLC to LLC filing as S a few years into the company, and it didn't really change much for us. Either way, when you get significant revenue, you need an accountant to do your taxes. I don't remember our costs going up significantly after we switched.

> We converted from filing as LLC to LLC filing as S a few years into the company, and it didn't really change much for us.

yeah, so why switch if you don't have to

You don't have to, but we did to get W2 payroll for principals.

I've found in my case, I pay about $2k/yr to have an accountant manage this for me, but save about 4-5k in taxes, so it's worth it financially.

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