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Trusts & Dealer Status

Posted by Kim-CO on March 14, 2002 at 11:16 PM

Ward,
Discovered your site recently and have enjoyed and learned from the many posts.

I notice you recommend LLC's and Trusts for handling property transactions. Does this arrangement allow you to avoid Dealer status by the IRS thus eliminating the the payment of FICA on your profits?

I've been schooled in the notion that Trusts are the way to protect properties and corporations are the way to manage relatively short term real estate investments such as properties that are acquired, fixed up and sold immediately. The corp allows you to eliminate FICA on anything payed out to shareholders as dividends. This implies a strategy of minimizing salary and maximizing dividends to officers of the corp (me) thru the corporate structure.

I'd like to hear your thoughts on this approach.

Thanks,
Kim


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