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S corporation

An S corporation, as distinguished from a C corporation (the treatment of whose distributions is governed by Subchapter C), is a small business corporation that meets various requirements and has validly elected not to be taxed at the corporate level. Items of income or loss are passed through to shareholders in much the same manner that such items are passed through to the partner of a partnership.