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Excellent Reference, it helped me make my decision to file my Corporation in Wyoming
 
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New Mexico hands down.

- Totally private (register it through a proxy/individual)
- No annual fee (except for a registered agent)
- You can have an OUT OF STATE business address
- No annual report due to the state
- State fees are CHEAP

FreeRegisteredAgent.com (not an aff link) is where I register all my LLCs. Just pay filing fees + $24 for the first year. It's $96 to renew the registered agent after the first year.
 
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Dwight Schrute said:
FreeRegisteredAgent.com (not an aff link) is where I register all my LLCs. Just pay filing fees + $24 for the first year. It's $96 to renew the registered agent after the first year.
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So, do you give the registered agent's address for ALL correspondence (affiliate networks, IRS, etc)?
Do they forward your business mails to your home address on time?
 
You can register and use boiler plate articles however I'd highly suggest getting a competent atty to prepare your articles. Each business is different and needs different stuff in their articles. If you get sued the first thing someone suing you is going to do is try and pierce your corporate veil. To do this they need to find some stuff that basically says the corporation is nothing but a front for you acting as an individual. One of the first things they look at to do this is your Articles of Inc. Second is accounting.

Again you usually get what you pay for. And everything is fine until it gets challenged.

I highly suggest you spend the money on a competent attorney to prepare all this for you.
 
zxcvb said:
So, do you give the registered agent's address for ALL correspondence (affiliate networks, IRS, etc)?
Do they forward your business mails to your home address on time?
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No. Registered agent is only a person or company in the state who is there to be served in the event you get sued, and serves as the nexus between the company and the state.

You would put whatever address you want (preferably a mailing address only) on your state paperwork. All mail would go there.

Also check out HowToBeInvisible.com for more info on other ways to use New Mexico LLCs
 
as smaxor said GET A GOOD ATTORNEY (and/or Public Accountant)...don't let the fees he charges stop you. Structuring your business from forum advice is not very safe!

P.S: MA sucks to incorporate thou
 
Dwight Schrute said:
No. Registered agent is only a person or company in the state who is there to be served in the event you get sued, and serves as the nexus between the company and the state.

You would put whatever address you want (preferably a mailing address only) on your state paperwork. All mail would go there.

Also check out HowToBeInvisible.com for more info on other ways to use New Mexico LLCs
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Thanks man.
 
Does anybody know about disincorporationg an old corp? If you don't want to use a corporation anymore, can you just ignore it? I have a Delaware corp I need to get rid of.
 
BlueYonder said:
Does anybody know about disincorporationg an old corp? If you don't want to use a corporation anymore, can you just ignore it? I have a Delaware corp I need to get rid of.
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Yes, if you don't file your annual paperwork, the state will administratively dissolve it. I usually recommend to clients that, unless they think they have some credit/ex-partner risk that requires them to proactively dissolve quickly, to always let the State's administrative dissolution do their work for them, rather than actually dissolving it themselves.
 
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Why do you prefer an S-corp over a C-corp?
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C-corps are double taxed. Once at the corporate level, then at your income. S-Corp is still pass through taxation. The only benefits to c-Corp are you can issue shares to unlimited shareholders, and retain earnings.
 
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