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You own a business with another partner. You keep your money in a bank account, and split everything 50/50. Income, expenses… all 50/50.

When the business receives a payment, it goes into the bank account and half of the money is yours. When the business "pays yourselves," you both take equal sized withdrawals. So if someone pays the business $1k, you eventually both get $500.

When the business buys some physical goods, or purchases services, the payment comes out of the bank account and you thus each effectively pay half.

Here's the question:

  • There is a service for which a person I'll call "Contractor" charges $10/hour.
  • You decide to do this service yourself so you don't have to pay the Contractor.
  • How much do you pay yourself?

In other words, if your shared business account has $10,000 in it, and you do 100 hours of work (which would pay the same $10/hour), how much do you pay yourself, considering that half of what you are paying out was "yours" to begin with already?

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You pay yourself $10 per hour. $500 of that comes from you partner’s half of the $10,000 and rest from your half. Same as if you had paid the contractor.

The business gets the full $1,000 expense on its P&L and you get $1,000 income via 1099, K-1 or W-2 depending on how the accountant wants to do it.

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10$/Hour x 100 Hours = $1,000 expensed to to the business. 

So, $500 comes from your account, and the other $500 comes from the partners account. Since expenses are split 50/50. 

Since you are paying yourself with your own money, then that is a net zero. Since, you have to take out $500 of your own money to pay yourself $500.  

You just get paid $500 from the partner's account. So, you do $1000 worth of work, but get paid $500 for it. 

 

 

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Pay yourself $1,000.  The $9,000 left is split w ur partner... if it doesn’t sit in the acct.  ..bc Your labor isnt a distribution, it’s an expense.

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  On 9/16/2021 at 11:57 PM, saevel25 said:

You just get paid $500 from the partner's account. So, you do $1000 worth of work, but get paid $500 for it. 

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Not quite.  Business expenses go up (reducing taxable income) and assets drop by $1,000 and your personal income & assets go up $1,000.  Then you pay personal income taxes😩.  

Notice how the gov’t wins either way?

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Pay yourself the full $1,000. Any less and the partner gets 50% dibs from the remainder via the company. IMO it's that simple. 

  On 9/17/2021 at 12:26 AM, StuM said:

Then you pay personal income taxes😩.  

Notice how the gov’t wins either way?

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Sure, but I will pay IT on a higher number any day since it is still a net gain.  

OTT, we used to have some workers at the high end of their pay scale that refused overtime because it puts them in a 'higher tax bracket'. We had to explain them that the higher tax bracket applies only to the overage amount. They will still net more. 

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  On 9/20/2021 at 12:46 PM, GolfLug said:

OTT, we used to have some workers at the high end of their pay scale that refused overtime because it puts them in a 'higher tax bracket'. We had to explain them that the higher tax bracket applies only to the overage amount. They will still net more. 

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I've seen people like that.  Also, thinking it "Pays" to "Have a tax loss".  I would prefer to pay tax on a $ gain then save a little tax on a $ loss.  Only limited exception would be if you are very close to the line on your Social Security going from 0% taxable to 50% taxable or to 85% taxable, but that is not all that common.

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  On 9/21/2021 at 12:50 AM, StuM said:

Only limited exception would be if you are very close to the line on your Social Security going from 0% taxable to 50% taxable or to 85% taxable, but that is not all that common.

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The year my wife started collecting SS she was still working as a hygienist.   She had to cut hours to stay under the 50% taxable.   

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