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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act dropped the top corporate rate to 21% and creates new Code Section 199A that provides for a 20$ deduction for the non-wage portion of pass-through income.
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">These changes set up <i>important questions for advisors. </i></p>
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<li>What will a client's pass-through deduction look like?</li><li>Is a particular client "better off" being a C Corporation or a pass-through entity?</li><li>Is a client "better off" staying as an employee or switching to an independent contractor status?</li><li>Should Schedule C business owners switch to being an S Corporation and pay themselves a salary in order to claim a 199A deduction?</li><li>Trusts and estates can qualify for the IRA 199A deduction, but how should an advisor compute the amounts apportioned to the trust/estate and the beneficiaries based on the rules under old IRC 199 and Treasury Regulation 1.199-5?</li><li>IRC Non-Grantor Trust Allocations</li><li>How will a contribution to a Qualified Retirement Plan reduce taxable income and how will that impact the IRC 199A deduction?</li></ol>
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