Florida Corporation

Incorporating Florida Corporations

What is a Florida corporation?

Florida corporations are separate legal entities established by the shareholders. The shareholders elect to have an incorporator make the action to incorporate a Florida corporation to create a separate entity from them personally.

How much do Florida corporations cost?

A Florida corporation will cost $70 to file the articles of incorporation.

How to form Florida corporations:

It will take the Florida Department of state 5-7 business days to process your FL corporation articles of incorporation if you mail the form. Fax filings are processed faster, but you have to set up a prepaid account with the Department of State.
You can file domestic Florida corporations online and those get processed in 1-2 days.
If you need a federal tax ID number, that can be obtained online immediately with the IRS.

How are Florida corporations regulated?

Florida Corporations are governed by the Florida Revised Statutes - Title XXXVI, Chapter 607 Corporations.

Florida corporations require:

The basic Florida articles of incorporation requirements are:

• The Florida Corporation must have a corporate ending such as Incorporated, Corporation, Company, Inc., Corp., or Co.
• The Florida corporation name must be different than already registered Florida corporations
• The number of shares the Florida Corporation is authorized to issue
• The corporations principal address (this must be a street address, you may use a PO
  Box for the mailing address)
• You only need to state a specific purpose if you are forming a professional corporation
• Naming the Florida corporations officers and directors is optional
• The name and office address of the registered agent in Florida
• The name, address, and signature of the incorporator(s)

You can file the articles of incorporation yourself and use our free Florida corporate tools we provide in your online account, or you can pay our $100 incorporating Florida service fee and we'll do it for you.  When you pay us to form your Florida corporation, your money actually goes back into the local community.  Why?  Because we actually run a business in Florida, just like you.

When we incorporate a Florida corporation, our incorporating Florida service includes:

• Drafting custom FL corporation articles of incorporation.
• The incorporator initial resolutions.
• Florida corporate bylaws.
• The Florida corporation state filing fees.
• Registered agent service.
• Our fees are: $100 incorporating Florida service and $125 Florida corporate agent service.

Total incorporating Florida package for only $295 to form a Florida corporation, and that includes the state filing fees.