Editorial and Fact-Check Policy

This page explains how LLC Easy Guide is researched, written, and corrected.

Sources

We work from primary sources: IRS forms, instructions and revenue procedures, FinCEN rules, Social Security Administration figures, and state filing offices. We do not build guidance on other blogs. Where a number changes yearly, we cite the year and the source it came from.

Our calculators

Every calculator states what it includes and what it leaves out, next to the result. The S corp calculator subtracts the qualified business income deduction that paying yourself a salary destroys, which most comparable tools omit, and it subtracts the real cost of running payroll. Left in, both make the S corp look better than it is.

Its arithmetic is covered by 26 assertions that run against the same JavaScript this site sends to your browser, not a copy of it. They pin the things that are easy to get quietly wrong: the 20% QBI rate, the $400 floor introduced by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and the phase-in starting at $200,000 for a single filer and $400,000 for a couple. A calculator that returns the wrong number fails a build here rather than reaching you.

What we will not do

We do not invent authors. Articles are bylined to the Easy Guides Editorial Team because that is who writes them: no stock photographs of people who do not exist, no invented credentials.

We do not sell LLC formation, registered agent service, or compliance packages, which is why this site will tell you that most single-member LLCs have been exempt from beneficial ownership reporting since March 2025. A site that sells filing services has little reason to lead with that. Where we ever have an affiliate relationship we will say so on the page carrying it.

Corrections

If something here is wrong, tell us at hello@theeasyguides.com. We verify against the primary source and correct confirmed errors promptly. Substantive corrections are noted on the page.

Limits

We are not a law firm, a CPA firm, or a registered agent, and nothing here is legal, tax or financial advice.

Two limits worth naming. The S corp calculator models federal tax only; state treatment of S corporations varies and some states tax them in ways that change the answer. And the 50 state pages describe filing requirements and fees, which states change on their own schedule and without notice, so check the fee against your secretary of state before you rely on it.