The CTA requires both companies and beneficial owners to submit a report to the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Network (FinCEN). Both requirements are discussed below.
How LLCs Can Protect Doctors
Doctors are frequent targets of medical malpractice suits. This is why many of them have malpractice insurance to cover these claims. But what happens when the insurance does not cover the full amount?
Multi-Member LLCs: Structure and Issues
Members can own different ownership percentages in an LLC. Generally, ownership percentages are based off the member’s capital contributions.
A General Partnership is an Ugly Entity
If you thought Sole Proprietorships were bad, just wait. The General Partnership really is the ugliest entity.
A General Partnership offers no asset protection and doubles the liability because you are also responsible for your partner’s mistakes.
Unlike a Sole Proprietorship, a General Partnership requires two owners or partners. Unfortunately, like a Sole Proprietorship, a General Partnership, offers no asset protection. Again, there is no charter from the state, no legal separateness and, accordingly, no protection.
A partnership can be formed with a simple handshake between two or more people who agree to work together. You don’t need a partnership agreement or any sort of written document. Such a loose agreement also leaves no paper trail for the partners to go back to when things go south. When partners become adversaries and there’s no written partnership agreement in place, the laws of the state in which the partnership was formed take precedence, and the partners are left without any choice in the matter. Similarly, if one partner leaves, dies or goes bankrupt, the partnership is terminated and the partners are liable for the company’s debts and obligations.
I will not set up a General Partnership, ever. Not only is there too much liability but it requires a great deal of document drafting. A general partnership agreement includes, at minimum:
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- Type of business
- Finance requirements (the amount each partner is expected to contribute to financing the company up front)
- Rights and duties (what is expected of each partner)
- Dispute resolution procedures
- Compensation (the method of sharing profits and losses)
- System authorizing cash withdrawals and salaries
- Termination procedures (how the partnership will be dissolved if it becomes necessary)
For all the time and energy it takes to set up an ugly entity, you might as well set up a good one.
The above is an excerpt from my book Run Your Own Corporation. Click here to purchase the full book.
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Section 1202
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The Corporate Transparency Act
The CTA requires both companies and beneficial owners to submit a report to the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Network (FinCEN). Both requirements are discussed below.