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Legal updates from Business Law Attorney J. Christopher Erb of MacElree Harvey, Ltd.
One of the most important steps in the formation of a new company is the application for an Employment Information Number (EIN, or also FEIN). The EIN is a unique nine-digit number assigned by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to business entities operating in the United States. Originally, the EIN was limited to reporting employment-relatedContinue reading “Obtaining your company’s US tax number”
A while ago, I wrote an article on choosing the state of incorporation for your US company. Now that you’ve decided where your company will be located (probably Delaware), the next step, of course, is to incorporate: First, you file a brief document (the Articles of Incorporation or, in Delaware, Certificate of Incorporation) outlining theContinue reading “Incorporating in the United States”
Here in the US, folks tend to assume that the United States is the proverbial “city upon a hill,” a place to which everyone does (or at least should) aspire. Many of my colleagues overseas have had some serious doubts about that premise for some time, but increasingly, even US citizens are having their doubts.Continue reading “US Citizens renouncing citizenship in record numbers”
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Chris Erb is a corporate transactional lawyer in the US, working with companies across the world on business, internet, information technology, and other tech law issues.
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