Choosing an S-corporation to form your business comes with several impressive tax advantages. You don’t pay corporate income tax, and your social security and Medicare taxes are lower. In fact, profits are allocated to shareholders and taxed at that point.

However, an S-corporation’s Health Insurance can be a tricky matter. While S-corp employees can claim employee health insurance as a tax-free benefit, shareholders who own more than 2% of the company stock don’t get this same perk. For these individuals, tax-advantaged health insurance is more complicated.

In this article, we’ll go over everything S-corp owners must do to receive company-sponsored health insurance, how to properly deduct those expenses from their taxes, and how a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA) affects their eligibility.

Are you a visual learner? Watch our video to see how to coordinate an HRA based on your business type