Form Your Own Limited Liability Company 4th Edition [Paperback]

Anthony Mancuso (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2005

Everything you need to form your own LLC!

Forming a limited liability company gives you the best of two business worlds -- the informality and tax benefits of a partnership or sole proprietorship and the personal protection from business debts of a corporation.

Form Your Own Limited Liability Company provides you with the step-by-step instructions and forms you need to form an LLC in your state, without the expense of hiring a lawyer. This bestseller covers how to:

*choose a valid LLC name

*prepare and file articles of organization

*set up a member-run or manager-run LLC

*take care of ongoing legal and tax paperwork

The 4th edition has been carefully revised and updated to reflect the latest IRS tax rules for LLCs, and now provides helpful checklists throughout. It also provides the most recent changes in all 50 states' laws. The forms you need are included as tear-outs and on CD-ROM.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Armed with this book entrepreneurs... can take advantage of the unique tax and legal benefits of the LLC." -- Money Maker's Monthly

"In typical straightforward Nolo fashion, this explains everything from choosing a name to maintaining the LLC's legal and tax status." -- Orange County Register

you, too, can be LLC. Profits are taxed just once, like a partnership, while personal liability is limited, like corporation -- BusinessWeek

About the Author

Attorney Anthony Mancuso is a corporations expert and author of Nolo's bestselling corporate law series. He is the author of How to Form Your Own Corporation for California, New York, Florida and Texas; How to Form a Nonprofit Corporation (National and California Editions); The Corporate Minutes Book; California Incorporator (software) and co-author of Nolo's Partnership Maker (software) and How to Create a Buy-Sell Agreement & Control the Destiny of Your Small Business. His books and software have shown over a quarter of a million businesses and organizations how to incorporate.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: NOLO; 4th edition (October 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413303633
• ISBN-13: 978-1413303636
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,062,476 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

48 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource, April 19, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Form Your Own Limited Liability Company (2nd Ed.) (Paperback)

I found this book extremely helpful in getting my LLC set up - saved on lawyer's fees for sure! The disk provides sample forms that were useful as well. I bought 3 different books on this subject, and ended up using only this one - highly recommend it if you want the specific administrative details on setting up your LLC.

38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch start up guide and resource, November 17, 2000

By A Customer

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This review is from: Form Your Own Limited Liability Company (2nd Ed.) (Paperback)

I bought this book when I started my business and I refer to it constantly. While it is geared toward LLCs, it offers information on other business entities such as sole proprietorships, partnerships, C Corp.s and S corporations to help you decide what is best for you. It provides all the guidance needed to establish and maintain an LLC. I made the mistake of loaning the book out once and had to ask for it back because I use it so much. It has an entire section on maintaining an LLC after it is established to help keep records and legalities straight. Well worth the money!

67 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not enough for the price, August 1, 2002

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This review is from: Form Your Own Limited Liability Company (Paperback)

This book has a good explanation of the ins and outs of forming an LLC. However, in most cases, you create an LLC by filling the blanks in a state form, and then optionally create an Operating Agreement by filling in the blanks in a sample version included in the book.

The value of this book is in the state-by-state reference and in the sample Operating Agreement (and accompanying explanations). It doesn't tell you much of anything about what else you need to do to start a business or run it, referring you to other books written by the author.

Given the relatively light content, I wouldn't have expected it to be on the high end price range of Nolo's offerings. The book's real value for me was filling in some gaps in Nolo's excellent "Small Business Start-Up Kit for California" by Peri Pakroo.