What State Should I Form My LLC
Lesson 4 from: Legal Steps Every Business Owner Should TakeChristina Scalera
What State Should I Form My LLC
Lesson 4 from: Legal Steps Every Business Owner Should TakeChristina Scalera
Lessons
Class Introduction
03:34 2LLC Vs Sole Propietorship
07:59 3Cost
05:10 4What State Should I Form My LLC
02:49 5When Should I Form LLC and S Corp
07:02 6How Do You Handle Taxes
03:19 7Defining DBAs
05:24 8Registering LLC vs Trademark
03:46Lesson Info
What State Should I Form My LLC
This is a big question, where should you form your LLC? This is something I get a lot, and the reason is because we're busy (laughs). This is the modern era, we're moving around, there's lots of people that are in the military, and they're always asking, where should this thing even be formed? I don't even know where I'm gonna live next year, so let's talk about that if that's you. Typically LLCs are formed in the home state of the person who is running the business. So where the majority of business activities are taking place, if it is a case where you're straddling states, I know there's some people that live on state lines, we'll move into the second point right here. So, if it is a case where you're straddling different states, then forming in your home state where you live is always a safe bet, and then registering your LLC as a foreign entity in the state that you're straddling and maybe commuting back and forth to, or have a lot of clients in, that's also a possibility. The sec...
ond option is a great possibility as well for anybody who moves around a lot, especially military spouses, or anybody that they've formed an LLC in a different state and now they find themselves somewhere else. So, when you form an LLC, you're going to be forming it where the majority of your business activities are taking place and then if you're moving, or if you're serving more than one state, you are registering as what's called a foreign entity in that other state. The other option, if you have moved permanently and you think you're gonna be there for at least a little while, the other option would be to dissolve your old LLC and reform a new one, so you would start a new LLC in the new state, and you would have a new entity that's formed that still has the benefits of what you used to have in your old state, you're just not paying for two LLCs in each state. Alright, and finally the last question that I get lots of questions about are business licenses, and unfortunately, I cannot give you a guide, we're actually gonna give you a free resource that gives you step by step instructions on how to form your LLC in any of the 50 states in America which is really cool, that should help you out a lot, but unfortunately (laughs) if I tried to do the same thing for business licenses I would never get anything else in my entire life done because this is going to vary by your county, by your city, everybody's gonna wanna take some kind of coin from you, and you are just going to have to check locally to see who (laughs) you need to pay in order to have a business license to operate in their area, that county, that city.
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user-c49d1c
Every minute of this is filled with such valuable info! She covers every legal topic you could possibly need to know about as a creative small business owner and clarifies lots of confusing topics. I feel super confident about my small business ownership after watching this. Thank you Christina!
marymenger
I loved this course! Covered so many topics I've been wondering about in an easy and understandable way!! Brilliant! Thank you!
KimberlyAnnMurphy
Amazing! This stuff can be so hard to try and wrap your brain around but this is simple, easy to follow advice.