Your accountant files. Your strategist changes the number.
Compliance reports what already happened. Planning changes it while the year is still open — and most owners are only buying one of the two.
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The FICA exemption for children on payroll survives only in a sole proprietorship or a qualifying partnership. Inside an S-corp it is gone — and most people never hear that part.
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