Instructor
Greg Carnes
Instructor
Dr. Gregory Carnes serves as Raburn Eminent Scholar of Accounting at the University of North Alabama (UNA) and previously served as Dean of the Sanders College of Business and Technology (COBT) for 11 years. Dr. Carnes is well known nationally as an academic leader, having served as President of the Accounting Program Leadership Group, President-Elect of the Federation of Schools of Accountancy, and Secretary of the American Taxation Association. He served a three-year term as a board member of the Southern Business Administrators Association ending in 2024. He has served as Chair of the Education Committee of the Alabama Society of CPAs and also had significant service roles in the past with the Illinois CPA Society and the American Accounting Association.
Dr. Carnes has authored tax material for Wiley CPA Excel and UWorld for the last 20 years. Dr. Carnes also has co-authored two tax textbooks for Wiley, the first of which (Fundamentals of Taxation of Individuals) was published in fall 2023. The second book, Taxation of Business Entities, will be available in fall 2025. He has also delivered tax training for national accounting firms and approximately 25 accounting state societies. Dr. Carnes has published approximately 30 articles in leading academic and professional journals.
This presentation reviews the most important characteristics of S corporations that impact the decision of when S corporations should be chosen as the entity form by business owners. S corporations are compared to LLCs/partnerships on key areas such as formation, flexibility of owners, use of losses by owners, distributions, compensation of owners, and self-employment taxes. The reasons for the elevated complexity of the partnership tax law as contrast to S corporations is explained.
