A contractor's business is organized as an S corporation. A key financial feature of an S corp is that:

解析

An S corporation is a pass-through: under IRC §1366 income and loss land on the shareholders' own returns, so there is no second layer of federal corporate tax. It is not tax-free in California, which charges an S corporation a 1.5 percent franchise tax on net income under Revenue and Taxation Code §23802(b). Double taxation at entity and shareholder level is the C corporation pattern, which the S election exists to avoid. And the $800 minimum franchise tax under §23153 is owed whether or not the year was profitable.