BDO: South Carolina Enacts PTE Tax Election As Workaround To $10K Salt Cap (June 2021)

Angela Acosta of BDO has published an article, “South Carolina Enacts PTE Tax Election As Workaround To $10K Salt Cap,” which discusses the logistics of South Carolina following in the footsteps of other states and implementing PTE taxation options. The article begins as follows:

South Carolina enacted S.B. 627 on May 17, 2021, joining 11 other states that have granted pass-through entities (PTEs) the option to be taxed at the entity level on active trade or business income in an effort to help individual residents workaround the $10,000 federal cap on SALT deductions that was included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. South Carolina’s new PTE election is effective for tax years beginning after 2020.

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Posted by Anthony Tran, Associate Editor, Wealth Strategies Journal