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Does The IRS Think Full-Time S-Corp Shareholders Are Also Employees?
After asking about the taxation of fringe benefits for shareholders in an S Corp, it occurred to me that there could be two types of shareholders. Those who are silently collecting whatever profits ...
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Taxation of fringe benefits for shareholders in an S Corp?
In this publication, the IRS lists a number of fringe benefits that you can provide employees and details when/why they would be considered taxable vs. non-taxable. However, at the start of the ...
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Do health insurance premiums reduce an LLC member's capital account?
If the LLC covers the health insurance premiums for the members, does the amount get deducted from the member's capital account?
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What are the benefits of a company that uses a “points model” depending on your overall payments?
I recently signed up for a membership card in my local supermarket. This membership card has a point system based on the amount you have paid on that store. For example if you 10 Euro of items you get ...
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Is it worth spending money on SEO consulting and services?
Assuming one wants to launch a website with good reviews from beta-testers-users, is it worth spending money on Search Engine Optimization consulting/specialists or does a hacker with good IT skills ...
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How much can you give employees in benefits (without tax effects)?
I work at a startup in California, USA.
I know that whenever I go out to lunch with my CEO, he says he is only allowed to expense the meal if it was "business related," like meeting clients or ...
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Benefits and risks of taking your company internationally
I’m in the early planning phase of a funding round for a startup in NYC as a second office for a software company that is headquartered in Germany (ca. 50 employees). For a presentation I’m trying to ...
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What is the best type of retirement plan?
My company plans to start offering a retirement plan with a high degree of matching. The more I look into it, the more I realize there are a ton of options. Traditional 401k, Roth 401k, SEP IRA, ...
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What Are My Options For Inexpensive 401(k) Plans?
I want to offer employees a basic 401k, but most of the plans I've seen are tailored toward larger companies.
What are some good options for inexpensive small business 401k plans with low setup and ...
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Standard Benefits for Directors
What are the standard benefits for directors? Is there any links that I can refer to?
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What are ways software solutions typically save customers money?
I'm building a product for secondary and post-secondary education but for right now my product is more of a fit for the secondary education market. The product works and does what it is intended to do ...
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Should I pay some of my employees parking expense?
We just rented a new office in downtown Portland Maine. It will be a fun location for the employees and everyone is excited about the move. Unfortunately, there is little public parking near the new ...
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What solutions are there to removing medical insurance as a barrier to startup hiring?
In the US, medical insurance is tied to the employer in the vast majority of cases. Paying for an employee health plan is beyond the means of many startups. Founders are often willing to take the ...
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Has anyone set up an FSA for dependent care?
Does anyone offer a Flexible Spending Account for dependent care to their employees as a benefit? If so, whom do you use as an administrator and what are the costs of administration?
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What are the typical US public holidays?
We're just employing our first people in the US (currently have employees in the UK). I understand that not all companies recognise all the same public holidays. There's a list of public holidays that ...
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What PEO providers are out there other than TriNet? What questions should I ask potential PEO providers? [closed]
Looking at PEO (professional employee organization) providers - just wanted to get a sense for who else is out there other than TriNet. I only know about TriNet from Feld's AskTheVC blog: ...
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How much paid vacation for startup employees?
I'm the co-founder of a startup that just closed an angel round. We're planning on hiring a few employees, and I'm wondering how much paid vacation we should offer per year. Also, how many holidays ...
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Have you seen problems with “unmetered” paid-time-off?
I've never been a fan of counting vacation days, sick days, personal days, or whatever you want to call them. It's irked me to no end that, given X number of paid-time-off days at past jobs, I'd have ...
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What fun and low-cost fringe benefits/perks would you offer to employees?
Let's face it. As startups, we can't really offer top-dollar salaries to our employees. But we can offer some fun benefits that the big companies can't/won't. Here are a few that we have that seem to ...
