App "The Company"
How to set up a company
- Holding company
- Operating company
Examples:
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Contractor
Preliminary Information
- Your company name (Holding company name, then Company name) e.g. The Family Company or John's Design Co.
- Website address
- Company phone number
- Business address
To Do
- Company Name
- Use A.I. to pick a name (Company, not Holding)
- Pick a name in the best type for your field
- NAICS Codes
- Use an address that is not your personal address
- Use a real address (recommended) or a virtual address
- Get a real phone number
- T-Mobile
- AT&T
- Spectrum
- Get a website
- Get an email address (not your personal email)
- List your company on 411 and Google Search
- Have funds set aside to build company credit and presence. You won't touch these funds for a year. $500+
- Register your company
- Holding companies in Wyoming or Delaware
- Operating companies in your operating state
- All should be Manager - Managed Companies
- Assign yourself or a person as manager
- In your holding company you should be the manager.
- In your company the holding should be the manager-owner of the company
Taxes
- Each state has its fees and taxes. Be prepared to pay fees up front and taxes yearly for both a holding company
- Each company will need to file a tax return yearly or quarterly depending on your line of work
- Register with the IRS to get an EIN for each company
- Duns & Bradstreet registration and number
- Make operating agreement
- A.I. = "Make operating agreement with these partners and their respective percentages"