Incorporate Your Business: A Legal Guide To Forming A Corporation In Your State 3rd Edition
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Incorporate Your Business: A Legal Guide To Forming A Corporation In Your State 3rd Edition
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Book Description

Set up a corporation, skip the lawyer, save money!

Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining:

  • why and when to incorporate
  • what you need to know about corporate taxation
  • whether to elect S corporation tax status
  • how to incorporate an existing business

    Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including:

    Limited Liability
    Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments.

    Tax Advantages
    You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes.

    Access to Capital
    Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public.

    Employee Perks
    The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as:

  • pension plans
  • stock-option and stock bonus plans
  • medical expense reimbursement
  • term life insurance coverage
  • and more

    Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions.

    The 3rd edition provides the latest federal laws, plus the current laws, rules and procedures of your state.

    List of Forms

    Forms for Incorporating
    Request for Reservation of Corporate Name
    Cover Letter for Filing Articles
    Iowa Articles of Incorporation
    Nebraska Articles of Incorporation
    Bylaws
    Incorporator's Statement
    Minutes of First Meeting of Board of Directors

    Forms for Issuing Shares of Stock
    Stock Certificates
    Bill of Sale for Assets of a Business
    Receipt for Cash Payment
    Bill of Sale for Items of Property
    Receipt for Services Rendered
    Contract for Future Services
    Promissory Note
    Cancellation of Debt

    Forms for Post-Incorporation Tasks
    Notice of Incorporation Letter
    General Minutes of Meeting

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    "Set up a corporation, skip the lawyer, save money! Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining: why and when to incorporate what you need to know about corporate taxation whether to elect S corporation tax status how to incorporate an existing business Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including: Limited Liability Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments. Tax Advantages You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes. Access to Capital Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public. Employee Perks The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as: pension plans stock-option and stock bonus plans medical expense reimbursement term life insurance coverage and more Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions. The 3rd edition provides the latest federal laws, plus the current laws, rules and procedures of your state. "

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    5 out of 5 stars 7 Steps to Incorporate.......2006-01-03

    I looked at several books and found this one by Nolo to be COMPLETE, SUPERB, EASY TO FOLLOW. It explains benefits of incorporating then lead you through very clear step-by-step instructions. CD provides samples, save you from typing and there's explicit instructions fro each state. I incorporated in MA successfully using this guide. The author(attorney) has written many related books in similar clear step-by-step fashion. Thank you so much. I couldn't have had the guts to incorporate without this book and it turned out to be so easy.
    Incorporate Your Business: A 50-State Legal Guide to Forming a Corporation
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      Book Description

      Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining:

      *why and when to incorporate
      *what you need to know about corporate taxation
      *whether to elect S corporation tax status
      *how to incorporate an existing business

      Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including:

      Limited Liability

      Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments.

      Tax Advantages

      You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes.

      Access to Capital

      Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public.

      Employee Perks

      The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as:

      *pension plans
      *stock-option and stock bonus plans
      *medical expense reimbursement
      *term life insurance coverage
      *and more

      Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions.

      The 2nd edition includes a special supplement about the latest federal tax changes that benefit small and large corporations. It also provides the latest corporate laws, rules and procedures for each state.

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      "Incorporate Your Business lays out everything you need to know about corporate laws and regulations in your state, clearly explaining: why and when to incorporate what you need to know about corporate taxation whether to elect S corporation tax status how to incorporate an existing business Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including: Limited Liability Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments. Tax Advantages You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes. Access to Capital Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public. Employee Perks The owners of a corporation who work for the business are treated as employees. They can take advantage of tax-deductible, corporate-paid benefits such as: pension plans stock-option and stock bonus plans medical expense reimbursement term life insurance coverage and more Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions. The 2nd edition includes a special supplement about the latest federal tax changes that benefit small and large corporations. It also provides the latest corporate laws, rules and procedures for each state. "
      How to Form Your Own Michigan Corporation Before the Inc. Dries! With Disk: A Step-By-Step Guide, With Forms (How to Incorporate a Small Business Series, V. 3)
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              • how to incorporate an existing business

              Plus, you can save thousands of dollars in attorneys' fees by incorporating a business yourself -- Incorporate Your Business guides you through each step. In the end, your business will enjoy a number of advantages, including:

              Limited Liability Incorporating your business limits personal liability for business debts -- this means owners are not normally financially liable for business debts and court judgments.

              Tax Advantages You can split business income between yourself and your corporation, thereby lowering income taxes.

              Access to Capital Corporations have better access to private venture capital than any other type of business. They are also well positioned to raise capital by selling shares to the public.

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              • and more

              Incorporate Your Business provides the forms you need as tear-outs and on CD-ROM, including articles of incorporation, bylaws, minutes, stock certificates and resolutions.
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                      Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance
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                      Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside the U.S.-Russian Space Alliance
                      James Oberg
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                      In Star-Crossed Orbits, space veteran and bestselling author James Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with topnotch investigative journalism to tell the untold story of the U.S.­Russian space alliance. With unparalleled access to official Russian archives, facilities, and key individuals, he describes the strengths and weaknesses that each side of the alliance brings to the table.

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                      An insider's view into the U.S.-Russian space program With great fanfare, the 36-year game of one-upsmanship known as the Space Race officially ended in 1993, and in its place the U.S.-Russian space alliance was born. But beneath all the official rhetoric of a bold new era of space exploration, the ""marriage made in the heavens"" has been plagued from the start by misunderstandings, suspicion, high-level chicanery, and outright official lies that threaten to drag down the alliance and the space programs of several other nations. In Star-Crossed Orbits, space veteran and bestselling author James Oberg combines riveting personal memoir with top-notch investigative journalism to tell the complete untold story of the U.S.-Russian space alliance. With unparalleled access to official Russian archives, facilities, and key individuals associated with the Russian space program, he describes the strengths and weaknesses that each side of the alliance brings to the table. And he reveals for the first time the full story of Russia's decaying space program and how it ultimately was saved from collapse by Western funds.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      3 out of 5 stars nitpicking critic.......2003-03-23

                      James Oberg is a big critic of the Russian space program - has been following it for decades - and poses as a sort of "Crusader for Truth", on a mission to expose lies and cover-ups. A reviewer of his book "Star-Crossed Orbits" described him as "rather too pleased with his role as the unsparing truth-teller picking his way through a minefield of lies and deception". He is obviously knowledgeable about his subject, and "Star-Crossed Orbits" is an informative read, but his pedantic nitpicking gets a tad irritating. He seems to feel that the Russians have the advantage in their partnership with NASA. He is a former NASA engineer, so it's obvious where his loyalties lie (though he can be critical of NASA, too). He mentions all the friends he has in the Russian space industry, yet is savagely critical of their way of doing things, regarding many in the industry (particularly at management level) as cunning and deceitful. If those friends read this book, they might be a bit more reluctant to talk to him!

                      3 out of 5 stars Fast food reading.......2002-10-03

                      How do you fault someone for writing a book that the "common man" could read and understand? The constant barrage of self-aggrandizing/first-person anecdotes (i.e. 'I was the lone voice of reason testifying to Congress about xyz corruption.') doesn't fit in with the "just a link in the chain" most NASA engineers/astronauts espouse and is distracting from the facts. More importantly, a large percentage of this book relies on personal interviews with sources that insist on anonymity. Sure, some is to be expected, but when it becomes a significant portion of the source material it's a house of cards. (I considered leaving this review anonymous, but that would be hypocritical.) Finally, the entire book could be summed up as follows: Pages 1-351, NASA & Russia cannot be trusted to run a space program; Page 352, Space exploration is a worthy cause, so forget what I previously wrote.

                      4 out of 5 stars that's great.......2002-09-20

                      The author, a former space engineer with Houston Mission Control for 22 years (his speciality was orbital mechanics), writes about the odd relationship that developed between the U.S. and Russian space programs after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Russian program, starved for funds, often at war with itself, managed to get by on a wing and a prayer (and considerable tinkering and luck), while NASA poured money into Russia, made absurd apologies for Russian screwups and missed deadlines, and covered up a lot of what went wrong on Mir and International Space Station flights. In many ways, Russia continued to behave as if the Cold War was still on: jealously guarding photocopiers, refusing to share information with American astronauts in orbit, insisting on carrying guns on every mission(!). Individually, astronauts, cosmonauts, and engineers got along famously across the borders (well, there was the sexual harassment of Western female astronauts), but political considerations repeatedly trumped safety, engineering, and other values. It's a bracing and depressing tale by an ever-hopeful science journalist.

                      5 out of 5 stars Congress- read this book.......2002-07-21

                      James Oberg is an unaffected, genuine expert on the subject. He has written thousands of articles and the like. He has also appeared frequently as a TV or news commentator on this subject. He has authored 10 books or more. This subject matter is right in his area of expertise. The breath and depth of his knowledge is hard to match. It is almost as if he was born to this field of expertise.

                      What is perhaps more amazing in this day of public cynicism is that he seems to keep his sources in that they continue to feed him material again and again. They must trust him. Is it necessary to remind the reading public of his writings on the Soviet downing of Korean flight 007 and how with time James Oberg was proven right?

                      The fires on MIR is an interesting topic. Oberg gives a detailed history of the fires in the Soviet space programs especially those inside the space capsules. The Soviets generated oxygen by burning solid fuel oxygen generators. These are the same type of mechanism that destroyed ValuJet flight 592 in Florida in 1996, he points out. He supplies a quote from a NASA official that the "American program experimented with a chlorate candle emergency breathing device... but it was dropped because they couldn't be sure it would not start a fire."

                      Another interesting topic is, the arming of the Salyut -3 space station. It was armed with a Nudelman air to air cannon designed for Soviet jet fighters. It was there as a contingency in case the Americans tried to take the Salyut station. Oberg also has a photo of the Soviet Soyuz survival kit which included a three barrel survival gun for firing bullets, shotgun shells and flares.

                      On the policy making level, Oberg supplies lots of information, facts and opinions bearing on the topic of Russian-American cooperation in space. I do hope members of Congress and the executive branch read this book.

                      For Oberg, space is his life. His destination is the second star on the right. Maybe he will bring us along on the trip.

                      2 out of 5 stars Fun Reading but Incomplete.......2002-02-04

                      Oberg's book is required reading for anyone interested in the space station and our partnership with the Russians. Chatty and informative Oberg delivers a stream of detailed revelations about problems NASA and the Russians have chose to hide. In this role he serves as one of the few "gossip columnists" of the space program.

                      Two key themes of the book is Oberg's observation that 1) the International Space Station was a creature of politics rather than technical necessity, and 2) NASA deliberately ignored Russian deception and fraud. However the book falters when Oberg attempts to connect the gossip with the claims. The book falls flat in helping illuminate who were the authors of this strategy (other than some vauge paragraphs) and why NASA management and Congress decided to implement and ridigly maintain it for over a decade. Some insightful analysis about why Dan Goldin and George Abbey wrapped this albatross across their neck and were never able to remove it would have made this book an agent of change.

                      I only wish Oberg had developed as good a set of political instincts and contacts as he has inside NASA.
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                        Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside The U.S.-Russian Space Alliance
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                          Star-Crossed Orbits: Inside The U.S.-Russian Space Alliance
                          James Oberg James E. Oberg
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