With an S-Corp you are legally required to pay yourself a "reasonable officer's salary". I'm not sure what the specific boundary for that is(or if it exists) but I'm damn sure it's not minimum wage.
Fail to get healthcare, and it's only you that suffers.
You could simply use your s-corp to buy investments until your salary is reasonable. Generally you take any profit as a distribution. But if it has no profit, well then you wouldn't be taking anything.
Yeah, if for no other reason than the fact that they'll just change the rules to the system once they catch on.You can't bring down the system by working in the system.
No doubt. As much as I like Will's idea I've heard that this kind of thing is the #1 reason that audits happen.You have to be careful with that though. My CPA told me that the IRS compares your profits with others in your SIC/region and if you show abnormally low profits for too many years you're inviting trouble.
For 2004 :
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The cost of providing health care for U.S. citizens who have no insurance will total $125 billion this year, with taxpayers and private entities footing most of the bill, a report issued on Monday said.[/FONT]
US Uninsured Health Care Cost Put at $125 Billion
Unlike car mechanics, hospitals can't refuse anyone, and if "you" can't pay your bill, other people end up paying it.
You don't get it, the door opened long ago. You are already forced to purchase things, including cell phones and broccoli for other people.
forced to pay into Medicare = "derp herp"
forced to pay into Social Security = "derp herpp"
forced to pay for statues, national parks, sports stadiums, Obama's toilet paper, health care for people in Iraq = "derpppp herppp"
forced to pay for your own health insurance = "OMG! SO ANGRY, MUST GO PROTEST!"
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OK, so the solution is to spend 2 trillion Dollars to save 125 billion Dollars? I'm going to take a flyer and just guess your politics runs along the Democrat lines, am I right?
Not a good guess there, but go ahead and explain how forcing the uninsured to pay for their own health care is going to cost trillions.
Here you go:
“The health care law “is going to come with a price tag pretty hefty, of $1.76 trillion. That’s twice as much as originally thought.”
Obamacare: Twice as much as estimated? - The Washington Post
"But Democrats sold the bill, even to their own members, as a $1-trillion, 10-year vehicle. It could well turn out to be a $2 trillion 10-year vehicle, as anyone with a calculator could have figured out at the time. In other words, the cost of the law may not be twice as much as estimated, but it is on track to be twice as much as touted."
Yeah, if for no other reason than the fact that they'll just change the rules to the system once they catch on.
On a related note, Bush originally promised his Medicare expansion was going to cost $400 billion.
Medicare Drug Benefit May Cost $1.2 Trillion (washingtonpost.com)
$120/month is well below the average of $183/moth for high-deductible insurance with low hospital coverage and no stoploss. So yeah, you got a deal on the bare-bones policy. I assume you're young though, as the premiums vary with age...double the price for a 50 year old versus a 20 year old, for example.I pay about $120/month for a high-deductible plan. For the price you're paying, you could even toss in the couple thousand contribution limits and you'd still be coming out ahead.
You should consider offering the HSA's. The employee gets to keep the unused funds in his account. They can accumulate over the years and pay for all kinds of expenses, e.g, eyeglases, etc. I've got thousands in mine which will pay the deductible one day if I need to use it.
The best thing about HSA's is that they give you an incentive to stay healthy.