What is the first step required to form a corporation?

Unless you are reserving a corporate name, the first step to filing a
corporation is to file articles of incorporation with the Corporate Filing Office of your state. Most state websites have a standard form of articles of incorporation online and you can just fill it in and print it off.
In most states, the effective or starting date of the corporation is when articles of incorporation are received and stamped by the Corporate Filing Office. Some states will expedite this process for a fee and other times it may take awhile.

The fastest way to get your articles of incorporation filed is usually by hand carrying the document to the Corporate Filing Office and paying the required filing fee. In most cases, your corporation will be stamped effective while you wait. Some states now have online filing or filing by fax. Check your the Corporate Filing Office website for details.

Did you like this? If so, please bookmark it,
tell a friend
about it, and subscribe to the blog RSS feed.

About Robert Montgomery

A respected member of the legal community attorney Robert Montgomery has been counseling and incorporating businesses for more than 20 years. He's helped set up more than a 1000 corporations and limited liability companies (LLC's). He's presented lectures and seminars on the benefits and procedures involved with incorporating or forming LLC's and how to operate them for maximum benefit.
This entry was posted in Formalities, Getting Started and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink.

2 Responses to What is the first step required to form a corporation?

  1. Issac Maez Issac Maez says:

    What a wonderful blog! Please continue this great work I will be sure to check back regularly…

  2. Hipolito M. Wiseman Hipolito M. Wiseman says:

    I simply wanted to add a comment here to say thanks for you very nice ideas. Blogs are troublesome to run and time consuming therefore I appreciate when I see well written material. Your time isn’t going to waste with your posts. Thanks so much and carry on You’ll defintely reach your goals! have a great day!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>