As I've mentioned before, every lawyer I have ever talked to about this has told me to incorporate in Delaware. My current company Spatial Networking is based in Colorado but incorporated in Delaware through a "registered agent" - you can find lots of these via Google.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Andrew Ayre <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@britishideas.com">andy@britishideas.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I believe that California will charge $800 per year income tax for<br>
for-profit corporations even if you make a loss or no profit...<br>
<br>
A large number of Corporations in the US are incorporated in Delaware<br>
because my understanding is that they are very friendly towards<br>
businesses and easy to deal with.<br>
<br>
Andy<br>
<div class="im"><br>
Serge Wroclawski wrote:<br>
> There are two major "candidates" for incorporation at the moment. The<br>
> first is California, with the possible help of an attorney that works<br>
> with OSM International. Unfortunately this has been difficult as the<br>
> attorney is quite busy at the moment, and so asking him to do more<br>
> pro-bono work may be difficult going forward.<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">> As discussed, we can incorporate as a corporate entity, get our EIN,<br>
> and then work on the non-profit part- part of which will be the<br>
> mission statement and other documents we're working on at the same<br>
> time.<br>
<br>
</div><font color="#888888">--<br>
Andy<br>
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