A limited liability company is a relatively new business structure in the U.S., created under state statutes mostly during the 1980s and 1990s. But the Internal Revenue Service did not create a new ...

Corporate tax without the corporation. An LLC allows a business to be taxed as a corporation without the hassles of a corporation’s business structure. LLCs are generally less expensive to operate, ...

Not much, really. While the entity’s form and structure morph to an LLC, the rights and liabilities of the entity are generally unaffected. Under California’s statutes governing the conversion of an ...

This article briefly introduces each of the principal business forms, namely corporations, partnerships, LLCs and sole proprietorships. You can also check out the chart in our Comparison of C corp, S ...

Sometimes, an accountant’s error is open for all the world to see, as in the wrong envelope handed over by the PwC accountant at the Oscars on Sunday night. At ...

Passthrough entities have received a lot of attention lately -- partially because 90 percent of businesses are structured this way. Most of these businesses are S corporations, limited liability ...

A limited liability company (LLC) is a legal business structure that offers certain protections between your personal and business assets. More specifically, LLCs can help to protect your personal ...

At some point in a business's lifetime, it may make sense to change its legal business structure. Recently during a webinar, a business owner asked me whether an LLC or corporation registered to ...

A limited liability company is a type of business entity that is recognized in every state. The concept of the LLC structure is to give some legal protection to the owners, while keeping bookkeeping ...

When deciding what type of business you should start, the options can seem overwhelming. Two of the most common types of U.S. business structures are C corps and LLCs. A C corp is a company that can ...