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HR 4166 115th Congress House Taxation Corporate finance and management Immigration status and procedures Small business Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow all employees of a firm to be counted as a single shareholder toward the shareholder limit of an S corporation.

Introduced: October 27, 2017 Introduced by: Smith, Adrian Republican · Nebraska See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Oct 27, 2017
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code, with respect to the limit on the number of shareholders of an S corporation, to: (1) allow employees (and their estates) of the S corporation and any wholly owned business entities of the corporation to be treated as one shareholder if the corporation only has employee shareholders; (2) allow nonresident aliens to be shareholders if the nonresident alien is an employee, or the spouse of an employee, of such a corporation; and (3) establish tax withholding requirements for nonresident aliens who are permitted to be shareholders under this bill.

What's happening now October 27, 2017

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4166: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow all employees of a firm to be counted as a single shareholder toward the shareholder limit of an S corporation.. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4166/
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"H.R. 4166: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow all employees of a firm to be counted as a single shareholder toward the shareholder limit of an S corporation.." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4166/.
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H.R. 4166, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-4166/.
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