AliciaP1
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Business & farm

Your edited response/statement is correct!  When you pay yourself a guaranteed payment of the ordinary income you are handling the work for, you have now initiated the SE tax situation you were speaking about in your first post.  It also reserves the rest of the income to be split appropriately based on your ownership.

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