AE Tax Advisors

I own a real estate brokerage with fifteen agents. For years I was paying way too much in self-employment taxes because my CPA never suggested an S-Corp election. Commission income flows directly to the bottom line, and without proper entity structure, you get hammered.

AE Tax Advisors restructured the brokerage as an S-Corp and set my W-2 salary at a reasonable level relative to my role. The difference between paying SE tax on everything versus just my salary was eye-opening. They also helped me optimize the commission structures for my agents in a way that was more tax-efficient for both sides.

One area that surprised me was marketing deductions. We spend heavily on digital marketing, open house materials, staging, professional photography, and client gifts. My old CPA was not properly categorizing many of these expenses, which meant some deductions were getting lost. AE Tax went through two years of expenses and recaptured missed deductions through amended returns.

Total savings: $61,000 in the first year. For a brokerage our size, that is meaningful money that went right back into growing the business.

The team understands real estate deeply. They did not need me to explain how commission splits work or what a transaction coordinator does -- they already knew. That industry-specific knowledge made the whole process faster and gave me confidence in their recommendations.

Any brokerage owner or top-producing agent should talk to AE Tax Advisors about entity structure. The self-employment tax savings alone are worth the call.