Quote from opt789:
In other words, you choose whether or not you want to pay SE tax. The reason to do so is that you will now have earned income and can contribute to a deductible retirement plan and do various other things. On simple pass through entities like a partnership or LLC there is no requirement that you pay yourself a salary. On other entities like a C corp there are so many complexities that you can do a large number of things on how and what to pay yourself, but all that is best a addressed by an attorney.
this is exactly what i'm trying to say to this guy-
Does anyone have a clear answer on this?
As a trader(sole or entity), if you select MTM, you turn your trading capital gain into ordinary income. In this case, are you subject to self-employment tax?
you have multiple choices and it is up to you,how to report your profits(if any). but one have to define his goals first. need health insurance,high retirement plan contributions? form entity,report it as earned income,don't need it? report it as plain capital gains.
Income Shifting or Income Splitting,write of expenses-simple LLC with Pass-through taxation and so on..