Comparison With Subchapter S Corporation An LLC provides its members with liability protection and tax treatment similar to that enjoyed by stockholders of an S corporation. However, an S corporation also is subject to the following statutory restrictions: 1) It is limited to one class of ownership interests (i.e., one class of stock). 2) It must be a domestic corporation. 3) It may not have more than 35 stockholders 4) Stockholders may not include other corporations, nonresident aliens, partnerships, certain trusts, pension funds, or charitable organizations 5) It cannot have subsidiaries. None of these restrictions applies to the LLC. This flexibility creates considerable freedom in planning distributions and special allocations of income and loss.