Article: S corporation returns, 2001.

S corporations continue to be the most prevalent type of corporation filing Form 1120, U.S. Tax Return for a Corporation. For Tax Year 2001, about 58.2 percent of all corporations filed a Form 1120S. The total number of returns filed by S corporations for Tax Year 2001 increased 4.4 percent to nearly 3.0 million, from nearly 2.9 million reported in Tax Year 2000. S corporations became the most common corporate entity type in 1997. Since then, S corporation return filings have increased 29.5 percent.

The growth of S corporation returns was encouraged by four legislative acts: the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990, the Revenue ...

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