Sharon runs a lawn mowing business (which is GST registered) and she decides to employ her son Keith in the business. Sharon pays Keith wages of $100,000 per annum – whereas if she had hired someone else to do the work she would have paid the person only $55,000. Sharon thinks this ‘extra’ amount to Keith is okay because it is paid due to ‘natural love and affection’ and it helps Keith with paying his expenses (such as attending university). Keith is 17 years of age. Discuss the tax treatment of these payments to Keith when the business is conducted as: general partnership (with Sharon and another person Melanie as partners) corporation (with Sharon as sole shareholder) trust (with a corporation set up to act as Trustee. Sharon is the sole shareholder of the corporate trustee, and both Sharon and Keith are potential beneficiaries).
Sharon runs a lawn mowing business (which is GST registered) and she decides to employ her son Keith in the business. Sharon pays Keith wages of $100,000 per annum – whereas if she had hired someone else to do the work she would have paid the person only $55,000. Sharon thinks this ‘extra’ amount to Keith is okay because it is paid due to ‘natural love and affection’ and it helps Keith with paying his expenses (such as attending university). Keith is 17 years of age. Discuss the tax treatment of these payments to Keith when the business is conducted as: general partnership (with Sharon and another person Melanie as partners) corporation (with Sharon as sole shareholder) trust (with a corporation set up to act as Trustee. Sharon is the sole shareholder of the corporate trustee, and both Sharon and Keith are potential beneficiaries).
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Sharon runs a lawn mowing business (which is GST registered) and she decides to employ her son Keith in the business. Sharon pays Keith wages of $100,000 per annum – whereas if she had hired someone else to do the work she would have paid the person only $55,000. Sharon thinks this ‘extra’ amount to Keith is okay because it is paid due to ‘natural love and affection’ and it helps Keith with paying his expenses (such as attending university). Keith is 17 years of age.
Discuss the tax treatment of these payments to Keith when the business is conducted as:
- general
partnership (with Sharon and another person Melanie as partners)
- corporation (with Sharon as sole shareholder)
- trust (with a corporation set up to act as Trustee. Sharon is the sole shareholder of the corporate trustee, and both Sharon and Keith are potential beneficiaries).
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