C and S Type Corporations in U.S.

C and S Type Corporations in U.S.

C Corporation
A C corporation (or C corp.) is a corporation in the United States that, for Federal income tax purposes, is taxed under and Subchapter C of Chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code.
Forming a C corporation allows a business owner to create a separate legal structure that can shield their personal assets from judgments against the business.
A C corporation is a separately taxable entity; it files a corporate tax return reporting profits or losses, and any profits are taxed at the corporate level.
C corporations face the possibility of double taxation when profits are distributed to shareholders in the form of dividends, as the shareholders must report dividends as personal income and pay tax on them at the individual level.
The C corporation can have an unlimited number of shareholders; it can have non-US residents as shareholders; it can have multiple classes of stock.

S Corporations
S Corporations get their name from a unique section of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Code, Subchapter S of Chapter 1.
A corporation can eliminate the disadvantage of double taxation of corporate income and shareholder dividends by applying for S Corporation status.
Owners report profit and loss on their individual tax returns. They still have the opportunity to separate and protect their personal assets from judgments against the business.

An "S-Corporation" is a regular corporation that must meet specific eligibility criteria, and they must notify the IRS of their choice to be taxed as an S-Corporation within a certain period of time.
The eligibility criteria include, but not limited to, the following:

The company has no more than 100 shareholders.
The company has no nonresident alien shareholders.
The company has only one class of stock.
Each shareholder consents to the S-Corporation election.

Article by www.vcorpservices.com
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