Growing Your Business

There are a variety of components necessary to grow, protect and provide for your business—and to keep your business legally viable.

For example:

  • Do you need to make changes? You may need to file an Article of Amendment.
  • Have you issued stock yet through corporate stock certificates? This is a requirement of a corporation.
  • Who will file your Annual Report? Another state requirement.
  • Will you have employees? You need a Federal EIN number.
  • Are you ending your business? You should file an Article of Dissolution.
  • Are you doing business in another state (foreign qualifications)?

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Corporate Stock Certificates for Corporations

You should not do business as a corporation until you have issued shares of stock.

Corporations represent their shares of ownership through stock certificates.

It is also a requirement of doing business as a corporation—and you must act like a corporation at all times to qualify for the legal protections offered by corporate status.

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Foreign Qualifications for Corporations or LLCs
When you incorporate or form an LLC, one of the things you must do is determine what state to incorporate in. This question is on the application.

If you wish to do business in another state, you must file a Foreign Qualification if you are not incorporated there.

Please note that many states will tax a corporation that exists in their state, even if it is not doing business there.

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