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On this page you can choose the best legal form for your business and use the start-up kit to form your business.
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Limited Liability Company

LLCs were developed to give people the flexibility of partnerships with the liability protection of corporations. Corporations have strict rules regarding annual meetings and minutes, which can be a nuisance to small corporations. LLCs do not have any of the corporate "formalities". Yet they have the same liability protection that corporations do. Because of that, they have become a very popular business entity choice.

Like corporations, forming an LLC costs $800 per year. However you must pay the $800 earlier with LLCs - four months after forming your business.

Like corporations, forming an LLC will not protect business owners from actions that they do themselves, from tax debt, or from personally guaranteed debt.

LLCs are popular entities if your business has more than one person doing the work or you want to protect smaller stakeholders from business debt.
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