Corporate status but otherwise avoid this double taxation

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Fitness Workout, Inc., is a small business. Siblings Grady and Heidi, and nine other members of their family, own all of its stock. Currently, the firm’s income is taxed at the corporate level and, after being distributed to the family members, at the shareholder level. Can Fitness Workout retain its corporate status but otherwise avoid this double taxation? If so, how?

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