The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)created a deduction for households with income from sole proprietorships, partnerships, and S corporations, which allows taxpayers to exclude up to 20 percent of their pass-through business income from federal income tax. For upper-income taxpayers, the deduction is subject to several limits.
How Does the Sec. 199A Deduction Work?
To determine a household’s pass-through deduction, the following two amounts are compared:
20 percent of the household’s eligible business income
20 percent of the household’s taxable ordinary income (calculated before taking the pass-through deduction into account)
A household’s pass-through deduction is equal to whichever of these two amounts is smaller. In practice, the calculation of the pass-through deduction can be much more complicated than simply multiplying business income by 20 percent due to rules about what qualifies as business income and other tests.
Table 1: The Effect of the Pass-Through Deduction on Income Taxes Owed
Sample Calculations for a Single Filer with $40,000 of Pass-Through Business Income in 2018
Without the Pass-Through Deduction
With the Pass-Through Deduction
Note: Calculations assume that the filer has no dependents, takes the standard deduction, and has no sources of income other than pass-through business income
Business income
$40,000
Business income
$40,000
Standard deduction
-$12,000
Standard deduction
-$12,000
Taxable ordinary income, computed without regard to the pass-through deduction
$28,000
Pass-through deduction
-$5,600
Taxable income
$28,000
Taxable income
$22,400
Income subject to the 10% bracket
$9,525
Income subject to the 10% bracket
$9,525
Income subject to the 12% bracket
$18,475
Income subject to the 12% bracket
$12,875
Tax from the 10% bracket
$952.50
Tax from the 10% bracket
$952.50
Tax from the 12% bracket
$2,217.00
Tax from the 12% bracket
$1,545.00
Total income taxes owed
$3,169.50
Total income taxes owed
$2,497.50
Total Tax Savings from the Pass-Through Deduction:
$672.00
What Are the Limits?
There are a number of rules that define what income counts as business income. For instance, taxpayers’ income from pass-through businesses is eligible for the deduction, while their income from employment and capital gains is not. In addition, two categories of payments by businesses to owners (reasonable compensation and guaranteed payments) are not allowed to count toward owners’ “business income” for the purposes of calculating the pass-through deduction.
Upper-income households are subject to two additional limits on the pass-through deduction. These thresholds are $163,300 of qualified business income for single taxpayers and $326,600 for married taxpayers filing jointly for tax year 2020.
First, these households are disallowed from counting income from “specified service trades or businesses” (SSTB) in their calculation of the deduction, which includes the performance of services in the fields of health, law, accounting, actuarial science, performing arts, consulting, athletics, financial services, investing and investment management, trading, and dealing in certain assets where the principal asset is the reputation or skill of one or more of its employees or owners, etc.
The second limit (known as the “wage or wage/capital limit”) focuses on whether households receive income from businesses that have engaged in substantial real economic activities—specifically, paying wages and investing in tangible property. Upper-income households may see their pass-through deduction limited if the businesses that they own pay relatively little in wages and have relatively little property.
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 overhauled the federal tax code by reforming individual and business taxes. It was pro-growth reform, significantly lowering marginal tax rates and cost of capital. We estimated it reduced federal revenue by $1.47 trillion over 10 years before accounting for economic growth.
(TCJA) created a deduction for households with income from sole proprietorships, partnerships, and S corporations, which allows taxpayers to exclude up to 20 percent of their pass-through business income from federal income tax.
Form 8995 is the IRS tax form that owners of pass-through entities—sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, or S corporations—use to take the qualified business income (QBI) deduction, also known as the pass-through or Section 199A deduction.
See Section 199A Qualified Business Income (QBI) Deduction. The 199A qualified business income deduction, also known as the “pass-though deduction,” is the lesser of: 20% of the excess (if any) of taxable income over net capital gain, or. combined qualified business income.
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For tax year 2023 (filed in 2024), you qualify for the QBI deduction if you are self-employed and your taxable income falls below $182,100 for individuals, or $364,200 for joint returns, as well as certain taxpayers with higher business income.
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Did you do some work where you were paid directly by a customer or business, with no taxes withheld from your compensation? You may or may not have also received a 1099-NEC in the mail to document this payment(s). Either way, this is considered self-employment income, which means you're eligible for the QBI deduction.
Sometimes this is referred to as the pass-through deduction or the Section 199A deduction. The QBI deduction is: Available to owners of sole proprietorships, single member limited liability companies (LLCs), partnerships, and S corporations, as well as trusts and estates.
Essentially, the way to determine whether or not a taxpayer qualifies for this deduction is to determine whether or not their business meets a few criteria: Their income does not exceed $157,500 for a single filer or $315,000 for a married couple filing jointly. They are not an employee of the business.
calculated by taking, without modification, the lesser of— (A) The total entries in Box 1 of all Forms W-2 filed with SSA by the taxpayer with respect to employees of the taxpayer for employment by the taxpayer; or (B) The total entries in Box 5 of all Forms W-2 filed with SSA by the taxpayer with respect to employees ...
The ordinary dividend total from Form 1099-DIV, box 1a, are reported on Form 1040, line 3b. Next, 199A dividends are reported either on Form 8995, line 6, or Form 8995-A, line 28. The qualified business income deduction from Form 8995 or Form 8995-A flows through to Form 1040, line 13.
Explanation: The tax cut and jobs act added a section 199a deduction for pass through entities. It is calculated on form 8995. It is then carried forward to form 1040 on line 10 as a deduction from adjusted gross income (AGI).
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