Friday, November 23, 2007

Insider Secrets about Corporations: Or, Why Should I Incorporate?

-"Why should I incorporate? I can just do this business as a sole proprietor, right?"
-"Isn't it complicated and expensive to form a corporation?"
-"I run my business with my spouse, and we have a partnership. Why would we need to have a corporation?"

These have to be the most frequently asked questions that I--and my own financial and legal advisors--get from our clients. The vast majority of people who operate small business or home-based business are sole proprietors or mom-and-pop shop-type partners. Yet, leading authorities on small business estimate that at least 90% of all small business and home business entrepreneurs would benefit from incorporating and using a corporation as an essential component of their overall business structure.

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