How to Incorporate: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals [Paperback]

Julie L. Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996 | ISBN-10: 0471139130 | ISBN-13: 978-0471139133 | Edition: 3

The bestselling guide to incorporating your business—

updated and expanded for the 1990s and beyond

Should I incorporate? Which form of corporation is best for my business and long-term goals? What additional legal liabilities do I assume when I incorporate? What are the tax laws concerning corporations, and how do I take full advantage of them? How do I go about forming a corporation?

Get detailed answers to these and every other question you have about incorporating your business in How to Incorporate, Third Edition. Attorneys Michael Diamond and Julie Williams weigh the pros and cons of incorporating and help you choose the form of corporation that's best for you. They tell you how to structure your corporation for maximum legal, tax, and business advantage. And they supply you with a gold mine of sample forms—including tax forms and preincorporation, shareholder, and voting trust agreements—along with step-by-step instructions on how to fill them out.

Covering all the latest changes in the laws regarding corporations and partnerships, and featuring a major new chapter on the limited liability company, How to Incorporate, Third Edition, gives you the most up-to-the-minute information, advice, and guidance on

• When to form a standard incorporation and when to go with an alternative, such as Subchapter S, partnerships, limited liability companies, and proprietorships
• How to make statutory requirements work to your advantage
• Executive compensation and how to take tax-free benefits out of your corporation
• How to handle special agreements, securities laws, forms of incorporation, stockholders, dividends, and more
• How to complete IRS forms, take minutes, create bylaws, and post notices of meetings
• How to use incorporation forms for many different states as well as forms for general use based on the Model Business Corporation Act
• And much more

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From the Back Cover

The bestselling guide to incorporating your business--

updated and expanded for the 1990s and beyond

Should I incorporate? Which form of corporation is best for my business and long-term goals? What additional legal liabilities do I assume when I incorporate? What are the tax laws concerning corporations, and how do I take full advantage of them? How do I go about forming a corporation?

Get detailed answers to these and every other question you have about incorporating your business in How to Incorporate, Third Edition. Attorneys Michael Diamond and Julie Williams weigh the pros and cons of incorporating and help you choose the form of corporation that's best for you. They tell you how to structure your corporation for maximum legal, tax, and business advantage. And they supply you with a gold mine of sample forms--including tax forms and preincorporation, shareholder, and voting trust agreements--along with step-by-step instructions on how to fill them out.

Covering all the latest changes in the laws regarding corporations and partnerships, and featuring a major new chapter on the limited liability company, How to Incorporate, Third Edition, gives you the most up-to-the-minute information, advice, and guidance on When to form a standard incorporation and when to go with an alternative, such as Subchapter S, partnerships, limited liability companies, and proprietorships How to make statutory requirements work to your advantage Executive compensation and how to take tax-free benefits out of your corporation How to handle special agreements, securities laws, forms of incorporation, stockholders, dividends, and more How to complete IRS forms, take minutes, create bylaws, and post notices of meetings How to use incorporation forms for many different states as well as forms for general use based on the Model Business Corporation Act And much more

About the Author

MICHAEL R. DIAMOND is an attorney and Adjunct Professor of Law at the American University School of Law. He also has been a practicing attorney in the corporate world with the law firm of O'Toole, Rothwell, Nassau and Steinbach.

JULIE L. WILLIAMS is Chief Counsel to the Office of the Comptroller of Currency.

Product Details

• Paperback: 310 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471139130
• ISBN-13: 978-0471139133
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,326,201 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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113 of 116 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Technical and Well Rounded, March 15, 2001

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Tyler J Gleason - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Incorporate: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals (Paperback)

This book is basically a textbook, as it contains a lot of the details that are common to incorporation in any state. While the authors have stayed general enough to remain in an interstate appeal, they have still covered almost every legal aspect of incorporating, WITHOUT giving advice as to what you should do. Also covered are: sole proprietorships and limited liability coporations/partnerships and more. Good buy if you want a good cursory understanding of business vehicles. I recommend it. Please vote if this did help you.

41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Covers important topics, a little confusingly written, April 15, 1999

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B. Jacobsen "whsy82" (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Incorporate: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals (Paperback)

It's really helpful in that it covers a bunch of the basic points. Ironically, I wish it focused on the tax implications of losses (to be expected in startups) as much profits :). I also found some of the writing confusing -- like in covering LLCs, it compares some facets of them to other corporate before really explaining how they work. But I liked the book, thinking it basically helps me have a more informed conversation with a lawyer, which I think is essential (since regulations change so fast, and can be state-specific).

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good book on incorporating your business, November 30, 2003

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Doug Davidson (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Incorporate : A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals (How to Incorporate) 4th Edition (Paperback)

How to Incorporate is an excellent book to show the average guy how to incorporate. It is an easy read and packed with good information.

Some other books you will want to read are Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business In Any State by J.W. Dicks, Inc. Yourself by Judith McQuown and Incorporating Your Business for Dummies by The Company Corporation. For more information on S-Corporations, How To Form A S-Corporation by Robert Cooke is the best book that I have found and the one most recommended by successfult business people.