Postby dolfan » January 3rd, 2008, 12:53 pm
I do them frequently in Alabama. There's not much difference between states; the Delaware thing is really overstated for most small businesses. Its advantages really kick in for publicly traded companies; otherwise, the advantages are nil. You still have to pay taxes in the states where you operate for the share of profit attributable to operations there, so you don't gain anything that way by going to DE. You might save a little bit, not much, on initial filing fees, but you'll have to have a live human in DE to serve as your registered agent for service of process and your registered address there, and no one does that for free. The money you might save up front gets spent in paying a registered agent to be a warm body to accept lawsuit documents if you get sued. So, you may as well save that money and just pay a little extra -- if any -- to form in your own state.
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