Quote: (02-14-2015 12:34 PM)DVY Wrote:
Let say you have a doctor who operates as a sole-prop ( medical/dental liability pierces the coporate veil)
Said doctor also owns the real estate that the office sits on.
Q1: You can not pay rent to yourself as a sole prop. Is that correct?
Q2: If the doctor sold a minimal share of business (say 5-10%) to a partner, can the business (partnership or other joint venture company aka LLC or S-corp) start writing rent checks to doctor?
^^^From my understanding, rent expenses will lower self-employment taxes, FICA and social security
Q3: Considering this is a minority share of the business (lack of control and liquidity), what discount can you apply to this minority share of business? What passes the bullshit smell test?
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Foreign national family member (grandfather) passes away.
Inheritance share is roughly 100k. From brief research, this shouldn't be a problem to bring into the country (Form 3250).
Q1: Any special precautions I should take?
Q2: I have family members who might occasionally want to give me gifts. From a brief read of the IRS form 3250, its roughly 15k/person but each family counts as 1 person (related persons). <--- I might be misunderstanding this
How far does one extend this family interaction? Say you have ten cousins? How about family of your cousin? This whole section is just riddled with holes
How much $ before a red flag gets set off? 50k? 100k?
You can pay rent to yourself, it is very common way to reduce SE taxes, just don't get too cute and pay around market rate.
I believe (not positive on this, I just don't do enough of this type of work) that foreign nationals are generally considered to be residents for estate tax purposes, so all normal US rules apply. Also, I believe you are correct in relation to gifts with the relation to the related party rules and it would extend to your first cousins, but past that I would need to check the tax code to give you a more definitive answer.