Incorporate Your Business: When To Do It And How

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John Wiley & Sons, 2004 M11 17 - 256 pages
With real-world examples, charts, and tables, this handy guide will help you calculate the benefits of incorporation for your business—before you decide to take the leap. For small business owners, with Incorporate Your Business you'll master all the fundamentals, including:
  • Overall benefits of incorporation
  • Tax changes under incorporation
  • Various types of corporations
  • Completing all the paperwork correctly
  • Setting up a corporate structure
  • Electing officers and setting up the board
  • Holding important organizational meetings
 

Contents

When To Do It and How Chapter 1 Why Should I Incorporate My Business?
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When To Do It and How Chapter 2 How Incorporating Can Result In Tax Savings
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When To Do It and How Chapter 3 The Alternatives to Forming a Corporation
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When To Do It and How Chapter 4 How to Structure a Corporation
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When To Do It and How Chapter 5 Planning Your Corporation
65
When To Do It and How Chapter 6 Steps to Create and Run Your Corporation
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When To Do It and How Appendix A Useful Forms
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When To Do It and How Appendix B Useful Addresses
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When To Do It and How Appendix C Short Course in Corporate Finance Terms
227
When To Do It and How Appendix D Glossary
231
When To Do It and How Index
239
When To Do It and How End User License Agreement
247
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ROBERT A. COOKE, CPA, has owned or co-owned three successful small businesses and is the author of six books, including Doing Business Tax-Free and How to Start Your Own S Corporation, Second Edition, both from Wiley.

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