Here are the rules for combining businesses for the QBI deduction:
- You or a group of people own at least 50% of each trade or business for most of the tax year, including the last day of the tax year, and all trades or businesses have the same tax year-end.
- None of the trades or businesses are an SSTB.
- All trades or businesses meet at least two of these conditions:
- They provide products, property, or services that are the same or are customarily offered together.
- They share facilities or significant centralized business elements such as personnel, accounting, legal, manufacturing, purchasing, human resources, or information technology resources.
- They're operated in coordination with, or reliance upon, one or more of the businesses in the aggregated group.
If your businesses meet these requirements and your 2024 taxable income before the Qualified Business Income (QBI) deduction is $191,950 or less ($383,900 or less if filing jointly), there's no advantage to aggregating your businesses for the QBI deduction. However, if your taxable income exceeds these amounts, aggregation may be advantageous, depending on your relative income, W-2 wages paid, and business assets.
Once you aggregate your businesses for QBI purposes, you must continue to do so on future returns.
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