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Article: S corporation returns, 1999.(Statistical Data Included)
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- Statistics of Income. SOI Bulletin
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Since 1996, S corporations are the single largest corporate entity type filing Form 1120, U.S. Tax Return for a Corporation. For Tax Year 1999, over 55.2 percent of all corporations filed a Form 1120S, up from 53.4 percent filed for Tax Year 1998. The total number of returns filed by S corporations for Tax Year 1999 increased by over 5.3 percent to 2.7 million, from nearly 2.6 million for Tax Year 1998.
The continued growth in S corporations for Tax Year 1999 was affected by four legislative acts: the Tax Reform Act of 1986, the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1990, the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993, and the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 [1]. Since ...