Incorporate a Business

Why incorporate?

Limited liability protection and often more tax advantages for growing your business.

Forming a corporation with incorporation services

Corporations have become the gold standard for starting a business. The corporate business structure can help reduce your taxes and protect you against the threat of personal liability.

When registering a company, a C corporation or C corp is the most common corporation type, but most often it isn’t the top choice for small business owners. C corporations provide limited liability protection to owners, who are called shareholders, meaning owners are typically not personally responsible for business debts and liabilities. C corporations may also offer greater tax advantages because of an expanded ability to deduct employee benefits, which are most often used by growing businesses.

Corporation advantages

Corporations typically provide a number of advantages:

• Limited liability protection. Owners are not typically responsible for business debts and liabilities.
• Unlimited owners. C corps can have an unlimited number of shareholders.
• Easy transfer of ownership. Ownership is easily transferable through the sale of stock.
• Unlimited life. When a corporation’s owner incurs a disabling illness or dies, the corporation does not cease to exist.
• Raise capital more easily. Additional capital can be raised by selling shares of stock.
• Credibility. Corporations may be perceived as a more professional/legitimate entity than a sole proprietorship or general partnership.
• Lower audit risk. Generally C corporations are audited less frequently than sole proprietorships.
• Tax deductible expenses. Business expenses may be tax-deductible.
• Self-employment tax savings. A C corporation can offer self-employment tax savings, since owners who work for the business are classified as employees.

How do you form a corporation?

In order to register a company as a C corporation, Articles of Incorporation (sometimes called a Certificate of Incorporation, must be filed with the state and the necessary filing fees paid. Upon incorporation, C corporations are also required to adopt bylaws, hold an initial meeting of directors and shareholders, and issue shares of stock to owners.

Key benefits

C corporations are more flexible than S corporations in terms of the number of owners (shareholders) they can have and who can be an owner. That is one reason why C corporations are the business type of choice for venture capitalists when they provide funding to a business.

Some thing to keep in mind

Corporations face the most extensive ongoing formalities of any business type. Corporations must adopt and regularly update bylaws, hold and properly document annual meetings of directors and shareholders and more.

Form a corporation in Nevada

You can choose any state to incorporate in, Why not Nevada? Here are some key facts you should know as you consider forming a C corporation in Nevada.

At the time of incorporation, Nevada requires you to take the following additional steps:

• Nevada has an initial report or publication requirement known as “Initial List of Officers and Directors”.

Nevada also has the following ongoing requirements:

• Annual report. Nevada requires corporations to file an annual report on or before the first day of the anniversary month of the company’s incorporation.
• Corporate records. Nevada has both a state recordkeeping requirement (where certain information must be kept with the registered agent) and standard corporate recordkeeping requirements.

Shares for your Nevada corporation

Nevada Secretary of State filing fees are based upon the initial capitalization amount. For this purpose, no-par shares are evaluated at $1 per share. We recommend 25,000 no-par shares.

Capital Value Calculation:
number of shares x share value (par value) = capital value

State Filing Fee Chart:

Why is Nevada is the best place to form your corporation?

Nevada corporations are superior in several ways to similar Nevada corporations, which at one time had been popular for privacy and asset protection strategies. Owners of Nevada corporations enjoy the following benefits:

• No corporate or personal income tax Because there is no income tax in Nevada, there is no state income tax return to file every year.
• One person corporation One person can be the President, Secretary, and all the officers and directors of a corporation. (While the same is true of LLCs, legal risks may arise with a single Member LLC as LLCs were designed with partnership structure in mind.)
• Limitation of liability The officers and directors of a Nevada corporation are protected by statute and case law from the debts and actions of the corporation.
• Information privacy Nevada does not share taxpayer information with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
• Shareholder privacy Shareholder information is never on the public record in Nevada.
• Complete anonymity. Annual reports require the name of only one person and report only the assets located in Nevada. With a Nevada corporation you really can anonymously own your corporation.
• Unlimited shares You can issue unlimited shares, with or without par value through your Nevada corporation.
• Low regulation Nevada does not have the bureaucratic regulations of many states and is very happy to keep it that way.

Ready to get started?

Let Resident Agents of Nevada Inc walk you through the incorporating process. With our help, creating a corporation is clear, simple, and can be done online or by phone in three easy steps. Save on your tax bill, protect your personal assets, and get the additional benefits of a legally established business entity. Thousands of businesses have used Resident Agents of Nevada Inc to incorporate. So, go ahead…take the next step and incorporate online or by phone today.

When incorporating in Nevada with Resident Agents of Nevada Inc, we not only file your articles of incorporation with the Nevada Secretary of State, we can also obtain your Federal Tax ID Number (EIN) and provide other customized services for your Nevada corporation.

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