...A cooperative is a worker-owned, worker-run enterprise whose members earn salaries and share profits paid out as so-called patronage dividends. Members then pay ordinary rates on them. The dividends are deductible to the cooperative, which pays the corporate rate on anything retained for reinvestment in the business. Employees who aren’t members typically receive regular wages.
...The new law lowers the top individual rate to 37 percent from 39.6 percent. With the new 20 percent deduction, pass-through owners taxed at the top rate can now get their rates as low as 29.6 percent.
Critics say this creates an incentive for top earners to recast themselves as independent contractors and funnel wages taxed at ordinary rates through a pass-through entity.
Gross Income
Now, tax advisers are exploring another move: to recast a pass-through as a cooperative, because the new law lets cooperatives apply the deduction to their gross income.
...Adopting cooperative status could be as simple as changing your bylaws to reflect the three pillars of being a cooperative: control of capital by the owners, who are also called members; giving each owner one vote; and distributing profits to owners.
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