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Choosing Your Entity, Part 3: Fundraising and Employee Compensation

July 9, 2009

This is the third and final post in a series that address differences between C corporations, S corporations, and LLCs. The first post focused on taxation differences between the entities. The second post focused on ownership and governance structure differences. This post focuses on fundraising and employee compensation differences [...]

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Choosing Your Entity, Part 2: Ownership and Governance

July 7, 2009

This is the second post in a series of three that address differences between C corporations, S corporations, and LLCs. The first post focused on taxation differences between the entities. This post focuses on ownership and governance structure differences [...]

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Choosing Your Entity, Part 1: Taxation

June 25, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ considerably in the areas of taxation, ownership, structure, governance, fundraising, and employee compensation. The differences will dictate your choice of entity, depending on your scope of work and future business considerations. For example, a number of tax planning objectives to consider may include the following. Can assets move into and out of the entity without incurring a tax liability? How will the profits from the business be taxed, and are there opportunities to reduce and/or defer the [...]

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Bill Targets Validity of Arbitration Agreements

May 14, 2009
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In what could be a serious and widespread blow to industry, a new federal bill, the Arbitration Fairness Act of 2009 (HR 1020), contemplates that no pre-dispute arbitration agreement would be valid or enforceable if it requires arbitration of (1) an employment, consumer, or franchise dispute, or (2) a dispute arising under any statute intended to protect civil rights [...]

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