Cheap shot.<p>If you do that, then it's income and you'll pay income tax, as you know.<p>You can't get something for nothing. S-Corp profits pass through, so they hit you as income tax, not payroll tax. It's the same situation as a guy who sells apples suddenly selling a truckload of them -- it's income.<p>Whining about how people "should" have done this or "should" have done that is all so much noise. What do you want? A forced payroll system?