Incorporating Your Business for Dummies (Paperback)

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Product Description

To incorporate or not to incorporate? At last, here is all the information you need to make an informed decision. This book explains:

• The advantages and disadvantages of incorporating
• State and federal laws about corporations
• The ins and outs of filing a corporate tax return
• Ten commonly made mistakes by small corporations
• The best way to create tax-free medical benefits and pension and retirement plans
• A guide to business life after incorporation

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A user-friendly guide to incorporation for today's growing legions of entrepreneurs

To incorporate or not to incorporate? With small businesses booming across the nation, millions of self-employed people are asking that question. At last, here is all the information readers need to make informed decisions. This book explains:

- the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating
- state and federal laws about corporations
- the ins and outs of filing a corporate tax return
- 10 commonly made mistakes by small corporations
- the best ways to create tax-free medical benefits and pension and retirement plans
- a guide to business life after incorporation

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Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: For Dummies; 1 edition (March 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764553410
• ISBN-13: 978-0764553417
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #72,110 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay as a primer, November 30, 2003

By A Customer

Incorporating your business for Dummies is okay if you are brand new and know nothing about incoporating or business. It does offer some good, but very basic advice.

Two better books are Inc. Yourself: How To Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation by Judith McQuown and Form Your Own Corporation and Launch a Business in Any State by J.W. Dicks. Another good read is Inc. and Grow Rich by C.W. Allen et all.

With Incorporating your business for dummies, you would be better off borrowing it FREE from your local library. It's really very basic stuff here.

70 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore first 2 reviews - this is a good book, November 3, 2003

By A Customer

It is so blatantly obvious that the first two reviews were written by the same person--DUH!

No doubt this individual would rather have you buy books on
Incorporating by no-name self publishers who offer only generic advice.

I previewed this book at Barnes & Noble and spoke with some other business people there who highly recommend this book. Now that I have read it and am using it, I recommend it also.

In Incorporating for dummies you will learn

-the advantages and disadvantages of incorporating
-state and federal laws about corporations
-the ins and outs of filing a corporate tax return
-the 10 commonly made mistakes by small corporations
-the best ways to create tax free medical benefits and
retirement plans
_a guide to business life after corporations

Incorporating your business for dummies is an excellent book for anyone in business. I also recommend Inc. Yourself by Judith H. McQuown and How To Launch a Business and Incorporate in any state by J.W.Dicks.

Conversely, I bought some of the "self-published" books on the internet and on sale here and was terribly dissappointed. Never buy sight unseen.

57 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of three must read books on corporations, November 27, 2003

By	Jack Tedesco (St. Clouod, MN, USA) - See all my reviews

If you are just starting out, you will find a wealth of information in Incorporating Your Business For Dummies. Read this and learn.

Two other books that are MUST READS are How To Incorporate: A Handbook for Entrepreneurs and Professionals by Michael R. Diamond and How To Start A "S" Corporation by Robert Cooke. You will also want to read a How To Incorporate (for your particular state), a series by J.W. Dicks. I purchased How To Incorporate and Start a Business in Minnesota and was very pleased.