C Corporation Tax Organizer Use a separate organizer for each C corporation
C Corporation General Information
Legal name of C corporation EIN –
C corporation address ❑ (check if new address)
Date incorporated State of incorporation Corp. state residence
Corporation Representative Title
Email Phone ( )
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation have a change of business name during the year?
Principal business activity
Principal product or service
❑ Yes ❑ No
Was the primary purpose of the corporation’s activity to realize a prot?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Is the corporation a Personal Service Corporation (PSC)?
Accounting method: ❑ Cash ❑ Accrual ❑ Other (specify)
❑ Yes ❑ No
Does the corporation le under a calendar year? (If no, what is the scal year?)
$ Total assets of the corporation at the end of the tax year. If there are no assets at the end of the tax year, enter 0.
New Clients
• Provide a copy of the Articles of Incorporation, bylaws, corporate resolutions, and shareholder buy-sell agreements.
• Provide a copy of the depreciation schedules for book and tax, and copies of tax returns for last three years, including state
returns.
C Corporation Specific Questions
❑ Yes ❑ No
Has the corporation been notied of any changes to previous returns by any taxing authority? If yes, provide copies of all
correspondence.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Provide a schedule of ownership changes during the year, including dates and number of shares or percentage of ownership.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Have there been any changes to the shareholder’s buy-sell agreements? If yes, provide a copy.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation hold an annual meeting with shareholders with a record of minutes maintained?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Has the corporation updated its minute book for the year? If yes, provide a copy.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation purchase or sell a business or business segment during the year? If yes, provide a copy of the contract or
agreement.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation engage in any new activities during the year? If yes, describe the new business on an attached sheet.
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation discontinue operations this year? If yes, provide details.
Does the corporation have any of the following employee benet plans? If yes provide copies of plan documents.
❑ Yes ❑ No
• Qualied retirement plan?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• SEP (simplied employee pension) or SIMPLE (savings incentive match plan for employees) plan?
❑ Yes ❑ No
If yes, do contributions need to be calculated?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• Cafeteria plan?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• Nonqualied deferred compensation plan or agreement?
❑ Yes ❑ No
• Other benet plan not described above?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation include taxable fringe or welfare benets such as health insurance, group-term life insurance, educational
assistance, nonaccountable expense allowances, and personal use of corporate vehicles in compensation on employees’
FormsW-2 and, if applicable, subject such amounts to payroll taxes?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Is the corporation a subsidiary in an afliated group or a parent-subsidiary controlled group?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Is any shareholder in the corporation a disregarded entity, a partnership, a trust, an S corporation, or an estate?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did any foreign or domestic corporation, partnership, trust, or tax-exempt organization own directly 20% or more, or own,
directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting power of all classes of the corporation’s stock entitled to vote?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did any individual or estate own directly 20% or more, or own, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting power of
all classes of the corporation’s stock entitled to vote?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation own directly 20% or more, or own, directly or indirectly, 50% or more of the total voting power of all
classes of stock entitled to vote of any foreign or domestic corporation not already included in a listing of afliated groups?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation own directly an interest of 20% or more, or own, directly or indirectly, an interest of 50% or more in any
foreign or domestic partnership or in the benecial interest of a trust?
❑ Yes ❑ No
At any time during the tax year, did one foreign person own, directly or indirectly, at least 25% of the total voting power of all
classes of the corporation’s stock entitled to vote or the total value of all classes of the corporation’s stock?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation have an 80% or more change in ownership, including a change due to redemption of its own stock?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation dispose of more than 65% of its assets in a taxable, nontaxable, or tax deferred transaction?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Did the corporation receive assets in a property-for-stock nontaxable exchange in which any of the transferred assets had a fair
market basis or fair market value of more than $1 million?
❑ Yes ❑ No
At any time during the year, did the corporation have an interest in, or signature authority over a nancial account in a foreign
country?
❑ Yes ❑ No
Was there a distribution of property or a transfer (by sale or death) of a shareholder interest during the tax year?