AboutJohn Stancil, CPA Expertise I can answer questions on personal income taxes, partnerships, and some corporate income taxes. I can deal with some state tax questions. Limited gift and estate tax questions. I am also familiar with ministerial and church tax reporting issues. I teach tax and accounting at a small church-related college. Sales taxes and property taxes are state and local issues so I am not likely be be able to give you an in depth answer on those types of taxes. I have maintained a part time tax practice for over 30 years. I am a member of the AICPA, National Association of Tax Professionals, and the Institute of Management Accountants.
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Question It is a two part question.
First, if the CEO/full time employee borrows money from the Corp for himself (say one day he asks for a payables check be cut to him for $100,000) and it is currently booked as a Receivable from him, can a portion of it be moved to "bonus" expense and a 1099 be issued for that since it did not go through payroll. This is in an effort to reduce taxable net income to the corp.
The second question is, if the CEO/full time employee lends the corp money from himself, does this need to be setup as an interest bearing Notes Payable to the CEO or can it remain as just a note payable with no interest?
How do you account for both of these scenarios accurately?
Answer Tana,
Thanks for your question.
Since he is an employee, the unpaid loan would have to be reported on a W-2 as compensation. It must carry interest at market rates whether the corp loans him money or the other way around.
In both cases they need to be booked as a loan either to or from the corporation with appropriate loan documents and interest rates. Terms of the loan must be adhered to.
