I'm thinking of putting the next truck I buy in my llc's name and then lease it to myself.Question is,and there may be more,is there a minimum amount that my llc has to charge me a week or month to lease the truck to be a legal lease or stand up to scrutiny
Leasing a truck thru my LLC
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by ridgerunner77, Jul 12, 2015.
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I would think the way to do it is you depreciate the the truck the llc writes off the lease payments and after it's paid for sell it to the llc and depreciate it again. BUT I'm not a tax accountant
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Trying to pay as little to TN as I can with their excise tax of 6.5% if I can.didnt know if like my llc only charged me like $50 a week lease payment if that would hold up with i.r.s or tn and would they call b.s on it
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What exactly are you trying to accomplish?
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Probably paranoid but I'm wanting to put my truck in llc name mainly from personal creditors and also if or when I want to expand have access to business credit if needed.plus I don't want to pay excise tax of 6.5% on my net,figured my llc would lease truck to me at say $50 a week and I would be able to run as a SP then while my business would on pay excise tax on value of truck and 2600 in lease income.if that makes sense
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Don't know if it is legal at all, regardless of payment. May need to be a Sub chapter S or even a C corp for that kind of deal to fly. And any deal like that would most likely have to be at "market" rate/value.
If you or the LLC are borrowing money buy the truck you will probably have to be personally responsible for the debt.
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Going to pay cash for whatever truck I do buy.a couple ppl told me that it doesn't have to be any set rate or fair market rate for lease payment.just trying to get ideas together about which way I do it before I talk to lawyer,so I'm not just babbling and throwing ideas everywhere while being billed by lawyer
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You need to seek guidelines from a cpa that is well versed in this. Every model of business is different.
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Cpa or business lawyer, or can they both answer these kind of questions?
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A cpa that's real familiar with IRS regulations. It has worked for me very well. Someone I can call anytime for answers for my questions.
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