LLC C CorpWe do not file the certificate
The filing office or a lawyer sends the certificate. We read the tax life before you tick.
Somebody has to file the certificate that brings a company into existence. That somebody is the state filing office, or a lawyer you hire to file it. It is not this practice. We do not prepare the certificate, we do not pick the registered agent, and we do not tell you that a shield around your house is in place. Those are legal acts. We are here for the tax life that starts when the box is ticked.
Owners arrive with a printout and ask us to send it. We send them back to the office that accepts it, with the tax question answered so they are not ticking blind. If a lawyer is already in the work, we will read alongside that lawyer. We will not replace them.
After the company exists, the books can open. Once the company exists, a provider the company operates can be switched on for wages. The first month can close when the bank agrees. None of that requires us to have touched the certificate. Keeping those jobs apart is how a tax practice stays inside its own work.
If you already formed the company last year and you are only now asking what you ticked, bring the acceptance notice. We can read what the notice says. We still will not pretend we filed it.
What to have in your hand
The notice, if one exists. The names of the owners. Whether anyone will take a wage. A receipt the shop already issued is useful only as a sample of the work, not as a filing. Leave the legal opinion where it belongs.
Say what you hold
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.
Say whether you hold a notice, a draft, or nothing yet.