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Tiana O.
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Tax question - Small business LLC with S Corp

Tiana O.
  • Real Estate Consultant
  • Washington, DC
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Tax Question fun!

If I self manage my properties but want to take advantage of the LLC S Corp designation for single-tier taxation, can I pay my small business to manage my property so that I only pay business income tax and not FICA tax on the rent that I'm using to manage the property?

- For example, say I get $600 of cash flow from rent (CF = rent - PITI). $150 of that goes toward property management fees (which I currently do myself), $200 goes toward future CapEx savings, and $250 is true cash flow. Can the $150 that I save for property management costs be paid to my LLC/S Corp so that I only pay business income tax and not the FICA taxes on that amount?

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Ashish Acharya
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@Tiana O.

Good questions.

Rental income are not subject to SE taxes to begin with. 

So that structure wouldn’t be required. 

This would work if you had a business( not rental), and if you wanted to shield business income from SE taxes by funneling the income via s Corp. 

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