That is the tricky part. And as far as the loans and salary goes...what kind of cash flow is involved here?
Its mostly tricky because the C-Corporation has no credit history. It typically has to use assets it already owns as collateral to obtain a loan to get anything else, and then you have a long process of appraisals etc.. and typically the interest on such loans is pretty high.. the numbers may in fact not work out..maybe the corporation will simply end up leasing some stuff from one of the workers.
Cash flow is going to be largely a factor of how much the corporation makes in its various endeavors -- Farming, Greenhouse control systems, Greenhouse kits or Speaker kits ( I liked building speakers..) or as a consulting corporation renting out my technical services. Perhaps all of the above. The Corporation of course can deduct many things as a business expense - materials, fuel and amortize capital purchases over many years - the company car it provides, the tools for the workers, the right work "uniforms" and so on. You MUST also have a executive board meeting once a year- and those expenses are paid for by the corporation, and, as I will be so poor, I suspect that each year this will become the family vacation opportunity. And then the corporation pays taxes on its profit after its has paid my salary ( which sadly will probably have to include payroll taxes ( too bad my salary isn't enough to pay for a wife and kids.. that is why she left me you know. She and the kids are on food stamps and such..) ) So assuming it as a venture is successful, after expenses and cost, the profits will probably be on the order of 20% of net.. Not much really. But enough to "reinvest" in the properties owned and curiously in these shiny rock that they INSIST on paying me in. . ( these shiny $20 rocks which they tell me are made by the US mint and are legal tender. No different than a $20 bill. Sometime they will pay be in pre 1964- change as well. $500 bags of dimes and such. They look just like the dimes on your dresser! They are worth 10 cents each. . . And that is what my salary and taxes are based on. -- After all if I get 4 Shiny rocks with $20 stamped on them or a bag filled with $500 in quarters - and that is what SSI and medicare wages are paid on as well as income tax. ) and 40% of the net will be used paying for the costs of business. The car. The big wigs on the board's yearly trip. The employee wages. The tools and materials. Its sorta like getting to deduct your mortgage interest as a cost, but instead getting to deduct the whole mortgage as a capital expense. But the corporation will be a good public citizen, it will just take decreased profits in times when it is lean and continue to pay the workers.. they may have mortgages of their own still. Also, the company is going to do research in the public interest as well. Green farming techniques such as no till and rotational grazing. There are govt grants available to entities that do such work.. up to $150k a year if you can get 3 or more producers involved.
If there is time and funds, the corporation is going to be super green and make its own electricity, use heated Hot water and partial solar heating of structures, and will allow the workers an opportunity to grow their own food. Still trying to figure out if local fuel production will make sense ( I doubt it) Many of the costs of operation will be low -- mostly propane, and diesel (made and refined locally provided those facilities aren't destroyed ...), and amortized capital expenditures for the green improvements. And employee compensation of course. I think this year or next (everything takes longer than you think) is going to be THE year a lot of this happens. The final big step into abject poverty for love of God and Country.
