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LLC Formation Service
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Is A Limited Liability Company Right For You?
A Limited Liability Company (LLC) is the most versatile, low maintenance business entity type you can form. The LLC can protect your personal assets as well as any corporation might. Plus, depending upon your business needs, you can elect to be taxed an S Corp or even C Corp, all while maintaining the versatility and simplicity that comes with operating an LLC.
Uncompromising Protection
LLCs utilize ironclad asset protection and help maintain a strict separation between you and your business.
Flexibility
By default, all income in an LLC passes through to the members, but any LLC can elect to be taxed as an S Corp or a C Corp.
Simplicity
No corporate formalities. No resolutions or annual shareholders meetings. An LLC makes executive decisions simple.
How to Start an LLC with Active Filings
Place Your Order
Choose the state where you want to register your company and whether you want to form an LLC, corporation, or nonprofit. You’ll then be prompted to select an incorporation package. On the signup form you’ll need to enter company details, your personal details, and payment information.
We Get To Work
After placing your company formation order, our professional filers are automatically alerted and begin completing your company formation documents. Once the formation paperwork is completed, we send your company filing off to the state for processing. In the meantime, you’ll be given access to your Active Filings Online Account where you can track filings, request additional services, receive digital notifications, access company maintenance tools and any other forms you may want to file.
Launch Your Business
Once the state has confirmed that your new company has been registered as active in the state database, we will send you a digital notification. You can trust your business is active and ready to launch. We’ll provide all necessary organizational documents and if you’re ever confused, frustrated or just have a question, you can call and our client service specialists will make sure you know how to move forward with your new company.
The Active Filings Legacy
Active Filings was founded in 2001 on the principles of reliable, easy and fast business formation for customers in any part of the US. Our state of the art technology and years of professional expertise and knowledge ensures that each customer will provided the most convenient and effective service when the business’ formation.
Plus, if you hire us, you know you’re not paying too much.
We offer $0 filings for people who want their business formed by professionals and don’t mind filing a couple forms on their own. And for those who don’t want to get their own EIN, we have other packages.
At Active Filings, we have managed to combine a hi-tech approach with old-fashioned customer care. Customers get fast, efficient service and at the same time experienced specialists who are available to assist if necessary.
Our system provides a standard and friendly user interface to incorporate a business in the least time possible. Our customers are able to complete the process in 5 minutes. The same approach is applied to the other products and services provided by us. And we provide service in all 50 states and Washington DC to local and international customers, in both English and Spanish. Call or sign up today to launch your business and experience the Active Filings Difference.
LLC Registration FAQs
While our offerings and services vary, our basic company formation package includes:
- $0 Professional Filing Service (the least expensive of any major national service)
- Operating Agreement or Corporate Bylaws template, depending on entity type
- Free Year of Registered Agent Service (no commitments, cancel anytime online, $99 each year after)
- Online Account Where You Can Access Digital Notifications, Additional Services, Business Maintenance Tools, State Forms, Pro Filing Tips, and All the Support You’ll Ever Need.
At Active Filings, we try to live by a simple motto: Don’t Be A Jerk. For that reason, we’ll never hit you with sneaky fees or make canceling our service difficult. Life is hard enough as is. You don’t need some company trying to nickel and dime you for all you’re worth.
In most states, the LLC is the simpler, easier business entity to operate and maintain. Corporations require that you follow a wide variety of formalities in order to ensure your asset protection stays in place (annual shareholder meetings, corporate resolutions for company changes, officers and a board of directors, etc). With an LLC, you don’t need to adhere to any corporate formalities, owners (known as members) can make company decisions on the fly, and you have a greater flexibility in deciding how profits are taxed and distributed.
NO! LLCs can be taxed as S Corps. An S Corporation is simply a tax election obtained by filing a form with the IRS. Every LLC in every state could be taxed as an S corporation (or a C corp). We can file S corp paperwork on your behalf if that’s what you want, however, S corp status does come with restrictions.
- No Foreign Shareholders or Members
Every owner must be a US resident. - You Must Pay Yourself a Salary
This requirement often ends up costing company owners. They must pay themselves a salary equal to what the IRS calls “reasonable compensation.” That means you can’t just pay yourself $5 salary and take the rest of the income as a dividend (the IRS will come down on you hard if you try that).
The salary requirement essentially puts its own sort of restriction on what type of companies can reasonably maintain S Corp status: those businesses taking in a high net income. For that reason, if you don’t know how well your business will do, it may make the most sense to start out as an LLC.
All businesses that will be actively engaged in sales or ones that will hire employees need to obtain an EIN. We include EIN service with our Professional and Executive packages, or as an add-on for $100. However, the IRS will provide you an EIN for free if you want to get it yourself. You can apply for an EIN online on the IRS’ website. Once you’ve formed your company, it should only take a few minutes to get your EIN.
Every state requires you to appoint a registered agent for your LLC, corporation, or nonprofit. Registered agents accept official notices and potential lawsuits on behalf a business entity. They’re a business’ official point of contact and are listed on the company formation documents. Because they’re a necessity, we include a year of registered agent service free when we form your company. With our registered agent service, you’ll receive digital notifications instantly when we accept mail or official documents on your company’s behalf.
Most states don’t require your business to adopt an operating agreement, but it’s self-defeating if you don’t. Operating agreements are private documents and are not filed with any state office. But they are without a doubt the most important company documents. Operating agreements outline how company disputes will be handled, how profits and losses are distributed, how a third party can be admitted into the company─these documents describe how your entire company functions and will be relied upon in court to settle any potential disputes.
Every company we form, no matter which package you choose, comes equipped with either an operating agreement (for LLCs) or bylaws (corporations and nonprofits). Our goal is to provide you with a company that is ready-to-use on day 1.