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What Are The Advantages Of Xyz's Status

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The biggest advantage in XYZ electing S status is that it will allow the corporation to avoid the corporate level tax, however, this benefit will not apply the built-in gains (BIG) tax. The BIG tax is a corporate level tax that is imposed on certain built-in gains of an S-Corp if the gains arose while the corporation was a C-Corp. As provided by §1374, “If for any taxable year beginning in the recognition period an S corporation has a net recognized built-in gain, there is hereby imposed a tax [at the highest corporate tax rate in effect, currently 35%] on the lesser of the corporation's net recognized built-in gain for the tax year or the remaining net unrealized built-in gain not previously subjected to the tax.” The recognition period, as

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