Overview
Inside This Course:
This is Course 1 of a two-part series that lays the groundwork for understanding business entities, compliance, and foundational tax treatment. You’ll work through how each major entity type — Sole Proprietorships, Single-Member LLCs, Multi-Member LLCs, S Corporations, C Corporations, and Nonprofits — functions under federal and state law, covering the operational and regulatory distinctions between each, how they compare on risk exposure and self-employment tax treatment, state-specific filing and employment tax duties, and the retirement and audit risk planning that differs by entity type.
By the end of this course, you’ll have a working framework to help clients choose, maintain, and optimize the right business structure for where they are and where they’re headed. Once you’ve completed this course, the natural next step is its companion course, which goes deeper into basis tracking, foreign disclosures, special allocations, entity restructuring, and succession strategy. Together, the two build the toolkit that moves a tax professional from preparer to trusted business advisor.
Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of completion for 3 hours of continuing education in the federal tax law topics category.
Curriculum
- 9 Sections
- 53 Lessons
- 26 Weeks
- Chapter 1 The Critical Role of Entity Choice1
- Chapter 2 Sole Proprietorships7
- Chapter 3 Partnerships8
- Chapter 4 Single-Member Limited Liability Companies8
- Chapter 5 Multi-Member Limited Liability Companies10
- 5.1Multi-Member Limited Liability Companies
- 5.2State-Specific Considerations
- 5.3Tax Implications
- 5.4MMLLC Members Tax Obligations
- 5.5Federal Tax Treatment as a Partnership
- 5.6Self-Employment Considerations
- 5.7Retirement Strategies
- 5.8Audit Risk and IRS Scrutiny
- 5.9Review Question10 Minutes2 Questions
- 5.10Case Study
- Chapter 6 S Corporations8
- Chapter 7 C Corporations8
- Chapter 8 Comparative Analysis1
- Bonus Chapter 9 Nonprofits8
- 9.1Understanding Nonprofit Entities
- 9.2Formation and Exemption Application
- 9.3Annual Federal Compliance
- 9.4State-Specific Compliance Considerations
- 9.5Employment and Payroll Tax Responsibilities
- 9.6Self-Employment and Compensation Strategy
- 9.7Retirement Plan Options for Nonprofits
- 9.8Governance and Audit Considerations




