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Consider a S corporation. The corporation earns $2 per share before taxes. The corporate tax rate is 35%, the tax rate on dividend income is 20%, and the personal income tax rate is set at 28%. What are the shareholder's earnings from the corporation after all corresponding taxes are paid?
S Corporation does not have any kind of double taxation effect on the dividend so the distributions made by the S Corporation are always tax free in nature.
Only tax will be paid by the individual in the nature of the individual taxation.
Shareholder earning will be
= Total earning per share (1-personal tax rate)
= 2(1-.28)
= $1.44