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Choose a corporate name. File your Articles of Incorporation. Appoint a registered agent. Start a corporate records book. Prepare corporate bylaws. Appoint initial directors. Hold first Board of Directors meeting. Issue stock to shareholders.

The filing fee is $40. Your corporation is legally created by filing a Certificate of Formation For-Profit Corporation with the Texas Secretary of State.

Filing fees range from approximately $300 to $900, and legal fees range from approximately $1,000 to $4,000, depending upon the extent of the documentation. There may also be some accounting fees ($500 to $1,500) relative to the S corporation election and other accounting issues.

Choose a corporate name. File your Articles of Incorporation. Appoint a registered agent. Start a corporate records book. Prepare corporate bylaws. Appoint initial directors. Hold first Board of Directors meeting. Issue stock to shareholders.

How much does it cost to start a Texas corporation? The state charges a $300 filing fee to submit a Certificate of Formation.

It takes 3 to 6 weeks to make your incorporation formal. Typically, to incorporate, you need to file an Articles of Organization (if you're forming an LLC) or Articles of Incorporation (if you're forming a Corporation). You need to file respective forms and mail them to your state's Secretary of State.

file a certificate of conversion including a certificate of account status with the Secretary of State. file a certificate of formation with the Secretary of State; and. adopt a plan of conversion and file it with the Secretary of State.

File Form 8832 with the IRS to have the company taxed as a corporation. ... Make changes necessary to meet S corp qualifications. ... File Form 2553 with the IRS to elect for S corp treatment. ... Submit a business entity conversion form to the same state agency that processes business entities, if available. ... Effectuate a merger.

If the LLC is foreign, it can't be changed into an S corporation. Form 2553 can be used to choose to be an S corporation. In order for an LLC to use its new structure in the current tax year, this form needs to be filed within two months and 15 days from the start of the tax year.

Choose a corporate name. File your Articles of Incorporation. Appoint a registered agent. Start a corporate records book. Prepare corporate bylaws. Appoint initial directors. Hold first Board of Directors meeting. Issue stock to shareholders.

However, LLCs may choose to be taxed as a C corporation or S corporation. This is easily accomplished by filing a document called an election with the IRS. ... Most LLCs stick with their default form of taxation. But electing to be taxed as an S corporation can have tax advantages.

Determine the owners, who are known as members, of the LLC. ... Select a registered agent and a registered office address. ... Choose a name for your LLC. ... Fill out and sign the Certificate of Formation, available on the website of the Texas Secretary of State (see Resources).

Limited liability companies that want to transact business in another state typically must register with that state's secretary of state or its equivalent business registration office. ... The new state may require the LLC to provide proof of its formation and status in its home state.

Many LLC owners opt to file in their home state as a domestic LLC if they are physically located and transact most of their business within that state. ... If you decide to register your LLC in another state, but run your store in your home state, you will have to register and pay filing fees as a foreign LLC.

To form an LLC, a business license is not required but it may be necessary to register the LLC with the state and obtain an occupational license before the LLC can legally operate as a business.