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Should my wife fire herself?

Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:22 am
Posted by LSUGUMBO
Shreveport, LA
Member since Sep 2005
8546 posts
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:22 am
She owns a business that's shut down- she's the only employee, everyone else is 1099. Payroll expenses are about $1,000/month. She files as an S-Corp.

Would she be better off firing herself and collecting unemployment? From what I've read, it's possible to do, and it seems like she'd be one of the ones that would benefit from unemployment moreso than the PPP, but I admittedly don't know a whole lot about some of the new stuff I'm reading about.
Posted by JakeRStephenes
Member since Feb 2012
2601 posts
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:33 am to
PPP will cover her salary, rent, utilities, phone, internet, and health insurance premiums.
Posted by VABuckeye
Naples, FL
Member since Dec 2007
35622 posts
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:37 am to
She can also file for the EIDL $10K grant.
Posted by Fat Bastard
coach, investor, gambler
Member since Mar 2009
73254 posts
Posted on 4/6/20 at 12:14 pm to
LINK

1099? is she classifying them as shareholders on the distribution side??

Maybe a resident CPA like lsufanhouston can give us his input later.
Posted by Ag Zwin
Member since Mar 2016
20026 posts
Posted on 4/8/20 at 5:54 pm to
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Should my wife fire herself?


I spend WAY too much time on the PB. So many really punchable replies popped into my mind.
Posted by YF12
Ottobaan
Member since Nov 2019
4451 posts
Posted on 4/8/20 at 7:00 pm to
With those amounts of money I would feel pretty confident that she could attempt this because reasonable compensation for officers/shareholders might not even come into play.

Most of the audits for my clients I have seen are when there is say $200,000 in net income and they report zero for officer compensation and send it all to dividends. That is not a reasonable compensation.

Very little hard and fast rules on this.



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