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Setting up your own business is not that difficult and it is really not necessary to pay someone to do it for you if you are relatively computer literate and savvy. However, before proceeding, there is something you should know about incorporating; the most significant reason to incorporate is liability. If you own a store on a strip mall and a customer could walk in the front door, slip and fall, injure themselves and wind up with mountainous medical bills then yes, you have a liability issue and you need to be incorporated. But what if you are just inputting medical records on your home computer? Where is your liability? If you wanted to, you could get errors and omissions insurance for any inputting mistakes you might make. In that situation there really is no liability issue. With that said, there are other reasons you may want to incorporate. Many businesses do not want to enter into contracts for services or material with an individual, rather they want to deal with other businesses. You may be in a situation where the company you work for will not deal directly with you but they will sign a contract with your business. Then you need to be incorporated. You may have financial backing lined up for a venture but the backers will not fund a person, only a business. Then you need to be incorporated. There are other reasons to incorporate, but the fundamental issue you face is the fact that your tax situation becomes much more complicated and expensive after you have incorporated. And that complication and expense can be justified only if you do it correctly: if you incorporate correctly and conduct your business in the "proper fashion." The problem you face is summed up in the term "pierce the corporate veil." Here is what happens; you incorporate, you conduct your business in the "proper fashion," you do everything correctly, as far as you can tell, and then the unthinkable happens and a liability event occurs. The liability event is significant enough that lawyers become involved and the whole thing winds up in the courts. During the proceedings, the defense attorneys will try to "pierce the corporate veil." They will force you to prove that you conducted your business affairs in the proper, legal fashion by demanding to see 1) your Employer Identification Number (EIN) assignment letter from the IRS, 2) your Articles of Incorporation (or Articles of Organization if you are a Limited Liability Company - LLC), 3) your Form 2553 election to be considered a small business corporation by the IRS, 4) the IRS' letter approving that election, 5) all of your business tax returns, for each year the business existed, showing compensation of officers, 6) your personal tax returns for those same years showing inclusion of that business income, 7) all of your filed, state-required, yearly annual reports, 8) your county and municipal tax receipt numbers or tax registration numbers or certificates proving that you are legally registered to conduct your business at your location and 9) last but not least, your business checking account showing that all of the income from the business was deposited in to that account and all of the business expenses were withdrawn from that account. [http://pilotkam.ru Раритетные военные пилотки оптом ]
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