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The email you give us here is the email address that you'll use to log into your account immediately. After you finish the signup process, this is the email that you'll immediately get a receipt and our thank-you email with our registered agent information sent to. You'll also be able to log into your account and see the registered agent information right after you finish the purchase. This is also the main email we will correspond with you at.
Foreign addresses and U.S. APO/FPO address have to select those options under 'country' and fill in at least the address and city fields.
Please make this exactly how you would like it. Some people like commas and periods, some people don’t. For example, some people would like: ABC Incorporators, INC. and others would like: ABC Incorporators INC
INC can be spelled out as Incorporated or you can use the name: Corporation or abbreviate as Corp. Similarly, LLC can be spelled out as Limited Liability Company, or LLC. Or L.L.C. It’s totally up to you. We will make the filing with the exact abbreviation you choose.
The name is important. This should be exactly what you want. You should think of how you're going to answer the phone. If you can pronounce it over the phone, if you want to say it over and over again, if it goes with your logo, if a competitor already has it.
The name has to be distinguishable from any other name already on file with the State. We will do a preliminary name check once we receive your new order, and if we see a problem, we will call you and discuss the options we think won’t have a problem going through.
The "principal" address, is what we list at the state level as the main physical address. Technically, this is where the records should be kept. If you desire to list our registered agent address as the physical address, we will keep a copy of your filing in your online account, and if you or we make an operating agreement or corporation by-laws, we’ll need to store a copy of this in your online account as well, so that we can access your documents at our actual in-State address.
If you have a office where you are conducting business out of, have employees there, etc., this would be the address we list here. If you’re forming a holding company or something of the sorts, and don’t have an address you would like listed publically, you can list our registered agent address as the principal address.
You can check the boxes here if it’s the same as the main contact address info, or specify a new address in the box provided.
President Name:
Secretary Name:
Treasurer Name:
The directors are usually the same people as the President, Secretary, and Treasurer, unless you have a big company that wants to have a greater mix of people on the board of directors. On a big company, the board of directors may consist of some of the officers, regular paid employees, and some non-company people who have an outside interest and views to help the company.
Directors are normally nominated by the shareholders directly, and thus could be voted out by shareholders at any point. Directors are in charge of appointing the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and any other officers.
If there are additional Directors, please add and name only the additional directors that are not officers:
Please specify all Director's name(s):
A corporation has stock, and the stock is organized by having shares of the stock. Typically, you would have 100 shares, or another easy number is 1000 shares. The stock of the corporation is the ownership of the corporation. We must issue shares of the stock, and the shareholders will own the shares, and thus, own their part of the corporation. These shares exist and are active once the articles of incorporation are filed at the Secretary of State.
We recommend keeping your number of shares lower because some States will have higher filing fees and ongoing fees if you keep a high number of shares. The value of the share is determined by you, making it kind of pointless to have millions of shares of a company.
The shares in the corporation are going to be bought by you the shareholder. This is what gives the corporation operating money. The shares can also be bought by you with assets, such as equipment, real estate, accounts receivable, etc. Usually, you will determine the value of these shares with the par value. So if you want to fund the company with $1,000.00, you could have 1000 shares and make the par value $1.00 This is a nice way to document what you’re starting the company with, but not entirely necessary.
Most people will issue the full amount of shares authorized. The stockholders are the ones who authorize a set amount of shares. Let’s use 1000 as our example. The stockholders vote the directors into their roles. The directors, then issue shares of stock to the shareholders.
If you might have additional investors down the road, you would only issue 501 shares, so the company would retain 499 shares (A Minority, so you always stay in full control) and the company could then sell and issue the 499 remaining shares to an investor.
For simplicity sake, most people will issue common stock. This means, every share of stock is the same. Dividends will be divided evenly. It’s the most simple.
If you watch the news, you might recall Citibank getting bought up by our Government. The government got preferred shares of stock, meaning they got paid first upon a total collapse. You can specify preferred stock, but this is only really necessary if you are going to have a multitude of different investors and shareholders, and you want to really specify some of the powers of each investor. 99% of small to medium businesses and even a lot of large corporations, just keep it simple, have all common stock. It's the simplest choice.
We provide a Montana attorney written fill in the blank operating agreement template with all our LLC’s. It’s in a PDF and a word doc. For 90% of our clients, our standard LLC operating agreement will be just fine. If you are looking for greater, itemized detail of certain assets and contributions of the LLC and you would like us to customize this to your needs, we can do so for you. We can add some specific language or itemize out some internal specifics for you in this document.
A great option as well, is always to hire us to form your company, and do the paperwork part, and then hire an attorney for an hour or two to talk over your new company with, and have an attorney prepare the operating agreement. This should cost you $300.00 max to have an attorney write the operating agreement. This combined with our filing service can save you a lot of money.
Please keep in mind, there’s no law requiring you to even have an operating agreement. You don’t file an operating agreement with the State. It’s an internal document. It really only becomes crucial, if you have a lot of members and investors. The real point in an operating agreement is to document what two or more parties are bringing into the company, so that if you ever split up, you’ll know what to do and how to divvy up the assets.
We provide a free fill in the blank PDF and word doc bylaws. These will be fine for you. If you have some real specifics you would like to have in the bylaws, we can customize that for you, or you can add it yourself in the word doc or PDF that we give you.
A Federal Tax Identification number is usually essential to set up a bank account and establish separation between you and your new company. You can obtain this from the IRS yourself, or we can do it for you. If you plan on making money with the company, you’ll eventually have to file a tax return, and thus need a tax ID number.
You will also definitely have to get a tax ID number if you plan on hiring employees.
If you don’t have a social security number, we can obtain a tax ID number for your company. You don’t even need your company incorporated in America for this service. We can get your number for you regardless of where it’s formed. If you have a social security number, this is not an option if you just don’t want to give it to the IRS. If you have a social security number, you will have to link that with the federal tax ID number you get for a business.
Yes, that's right! For only $40.00 we'll file your annual report for you. You won't have to worry about getting late fees, and worse yet, losing your ability to operate in Montana State.
For $40.00, it's a bargain to have us file for you, so you don't have to worry about it.
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