We file Form 2553, run the savings math, and handle the IRS. Start with a 60-second readiness check.
More than form filing: every package includes Form 2553 preparation, a written reasonable compensation memorandum, and email confirmation tracking.
Most profitable LLCs save $5K-$30K a year on self-employment tax once they elect S-Corp status. Answer 3 questions and we will show you your projected savings and your readiness score.
W-9 collection, $600-threshold edge cases, IRS TIN matching, and e-file via TaxBandits. Done for you before deadline.
Quarterly planning, PTET, QSBS, depreciation timing, holdco structures. Built for high earners and exit-bound owners.
Licensed Enrolled Agents (EAs) prepare and file IRS Form 2553 for you, write up your reasonable compensation in a signed memorandum, and track your CP261 approval, start to finish.
$2.4M+ in tax savings identified•5-minute intake
2026 planning calculation using IRS brackets, §199A QBI, FICA, Add'l Medicare & state assumptions
Use only net business profit subject to self-employment tax. Do not include capital gains, proprietary securities trading gains, investment income, or other income not subject to self-employment tax.
Your estimate should reflect your business, not a generic example.
Adjust the inputs above, then reveal your personalized 2026 planning estimate.
2026 planning projection. It assumes active participation, no non-owner W-2 wages, no qualified-property basis, and excludes FUTA and SUTA. Actual savings can differ or reverse.
No spreadsheets. No accounting jargon. Just a clear, fast path to S-corp status.
Tell us about your business. We auto-check eligibility.
Form 2553, RC Elite Memo™, and state packet - done for you.
Review and e-sign in minutes. No printer required.
Faxed to the right IRS service center. We watch for your CP261.
Ask most S-Corp owners how they arrived at their salary and the honest answer is a wage printout, a competitor's calculator, or last year's figure carried forward. That is a number with nothing standing behind it.
The Mello RC Elite Memo™ is what stands behind it. A written narrative on each of the nine factors the IRS publishes, applied to your own facts. A sourced statement of facts where every figure says where it came from. The derivation of your figure shown step by step, the authorities that control in your own federal circuit with every one verified against a commercial citator, an honest account of where the position is strong and where it is not, and a signed Enrolled Agent opinion. It arrives with the documents your corporate record should have beside it.
Big 4 firms charge $3,500 and up for work at this depth. Standard tax firms charge $1,500 and up.
Every package files your election and every package now ships a written reasonable compensation memorandum, prepared and signed by a licensed Enrolled Agent. What changes between them is how much of the reasoning is written down for someone else to check: 7 pages, 12 to 13 pages, or 26.
The entry package carries a full signed memorandum. The price has not moved.
Complete and fully sourced on its own. Standard is the same determination taken further.
The memorandum most owners should be holding
Basic tells you the number and shows you where it came from. Standard proves it on your own facts and tells you what it costs to run.
Full S-Corp setup including the 26 page Mello RC Elite Memo™, the 1120-S return and an advisory consultation. Complex cases scoped on the call.
Standard is the analysis. Elite is the analysis with a signed opinion behind it and the full documentation package.
Every wage figure in your memorandum comes from one place: the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, May 2025 estimates, published under news release USDL-26-0725. That includes the published percentiles for your occupation in your own state. No private salary product, no subscription survey, no number we modelled ourselves.
Where the Bureau does not publish a figure for your state, the memorandum uses the published national figure and says so on its face. You can open the same table we did and see the same number.
Each fact in the document carries its source, and a fact we did not collect is printed as not obtained rather than quietly assumed. That discipline is unusual, and it is the whole reason the document holds up. A reader can test every line, and when the memorandum does make a claim, there is a source sitting next to it.
A document that is precise about what it knows is the one that gets believed on everything else it says.
Every election is prepared and signed by a licensed Enrolled Agent, admitted to practice before the IRS and working under Circular 230.
Your Form 2553 and your reasonable compensation work are prepared and signed by a credentialed professional, not generated by software and left for you to defend. You will see the preparer named and signed on the documents themselves. If your numbers do not support an election yet, we will tell you that instead of selling you one.
The full 26 page memorandum on its own, without the election filing. A written narrative on every factor applied to your own facts, an authority table with every case checked against a commercial citator and the date of that check printed on the page, an independent investor analysis, limitations and assumptions stated in full, and a signed Enrolled Agent opinion. Delivered by a licensed EA in 5 business days with the contemporaneous documentation your corporate record should have alongside it.
Anyone can file a Form 2553. The question that comes later is how you arrived at your salary. Most owners have a number and nothing that explains it, and a number on its own explains nothing.
Basic gives you 7 pages. Standard gives you 12 to 13. Premium gives you 26, and those 26 pages are written the way a professional writes for another professional to read. Someone picking it up cold can follow the reasoning, check every source, and see that the salary was decided in writing before it was paid.
We stand behind every election we file. If we make an error on your Form 2553, we fix it and cover the cost to correct it. Your filing is prepared and reviewed by a licensed professional under Circular 230 and backed by ScorpConvert, so you can move forward with total confidence.
The normal S-Corp election deadline is March 15, but if you missed it the IRS provides automatic late-election relief under Rev. Proc. 2013-30. We file it for you with a proper reasonable cause statement, retroactive to January 1. Every month of waiting is money the IRS keeps, so lock your savings now.
Start my electionW-9 collection, the $600 threshold edge cases, IRS TIN matching, and e-file. Handled for you before the deadline.
Get 1099 helpA senior strategy session for higher earners and owners planning an exit. We find the moves most preparers miss.
Book advisory reviewRepresentative scenarios from the situations we file every week. Every card below is an example review illustrating typical outcomes - real, attributed client quotes appear in our case studies as they are approved.
“The intake took eight minutes. Two days later my Form 2553 was at the IRS service center with a tracked fax confirmation. I had been putting this off for a year because every CPA quote was a wall of jargon.”
“The reasonable comp memo is what sold me. Real published BLS data, my occupation, my state, written up properly. My old accountant gave me a number on a sticky note. This I can hand to an auditor.”
“I missed the March 15 window two years running. The late-election relief packet was drafted, signed, and faxed in under 72 hours. The CP261 came back six weeks later.”
“Three shareholders, two states, a side LLC. I assumed I would get told to come back when things were simpler. Instead the Standard tier handled everything in one engagement.”
“Premium tier paid for itself on the 60-minute advisory call alone. We mapped a clean refile plan, dodged a $4K New York penalty, and ended up with a memo my bank actually reads.”
“Two prior CPAs told me my structure was too messy to elect S-Corp status. Mello ran a multi-year projection in front of me on the call and filed the election the same week.”
Quick answers to the questions that come up on every intake call. Need more depth? Each one links to a long-form guide.
Start your 5-minute intake. We'll tell you on the spot whether you qualify and how much you'll save.