Our California Registered Agent service includes:
Immediate pre-populated forms and filing instructions in your online account.
No forwarding fees.
Same price every year.
California registered agent service under our own legal name.
Annual/Biennial Statement of Information reminders.
All service of process and notifications are uploaded immediatedly into your online account AT OUR SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE.
Have a question? Call your potential California Registered Agent now: 509-768-2249.
INFO ON HOW TO INCORPORATE IN CALIFORNIA, OR REGISTER YOUR OUT OF STATE BUSINESS:
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If you would like to file a domestic California corporation it will cost you
$100.00 to file. You appoint a CA Registered Agent on the articles. You also will need to file a statement of information that
costs $25.00. Many on-line incorporators do not include a statement of
information preparation. These are due within 30 days of the filing, but it is
better, to just include it at the same time. You will need your California
Registered Agent's name on the articles. |
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A Foreign corporation costs the same as a domestic corporation. You must
maintain a California Registered Agent for service of process and correspondence
with the State. A foreign corporation will be subject to the franchise tax
board's $800.00 fee immediately. |
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A foreign LLC costs the same as a domestic California LLC, and both have to pay
the $800.00 franchise tax as listed above.
Foreign LLCs must have a California Registered Agent.
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A domestic LLC cannot avoid the $800.00 franchise tax for the first year like a California S corp can. An LLC is required to maintain a California Registered Agent with a physical address in the State. Northwest Registered Agent provides this service in California in San Francisco CA in the historic Haight-Ashbury district. |
A domestic corporation that files as an S corp can be exempt from the $800.00 a year fee for the first year, and then would pay it when it's normal taxes are due
for the next year. If you file your business in the middle of the year, or even
on December 1, you will owe the $800.00 franchise fee for that whole year. Then you will owe it again
for the next year. If you file your company in the last 2 weeks of the year, you
won't have to pay the CA franchise tax for that year; but be careful! CA takes
the date they receive your docs as the "file date", not the date they file them.
Right now, CA is taking 1-2 months to process a filing so let's say you send in
your filing December 10th, they receive it on the 12th, then they take 1 month
to process it. You get your filed docs around the middle to the end of January,
and it will show your file date of Decemner 12th. Thus, you'll owe the 800.00
franchise tax, for the entire year ...and you wouldn't have even received or had
the authority to do business in that year. Ridiculous? Yes. It's Califonia! Need
I say more? They could hire a programmer off the San Francisco Craigslist for
probably 5,000 - 10,000 to build an instant online filing system, in 1-2 weeks
development time, but that wouldn't make much sense now would it?
The good news about the CA franchise tax is that it's a "minimum" payment. What
that means is if you're a profitable business, you won't even know you're paying
it.
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001 Northwest Registered Agent, Inc.
Agent# C3184722
San Francisco, CA 94117
San Francisco County
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