Want to save thousands in self-employment taxes every year?

Save hundreds or thousands in professional fees!

Are you ready to set up your own S corporation? You've got several approaches you can use. You can pay an attorney $1000. You can pay an online paralegal service $200-$300. Or, you can just do the setup yourself using one of my do-it-yourself kits. You'll save time as well as hundreds of dollars. And, as an extra benefit, you also learn more about S corporations and their tax benefits in the process.

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If you purchase a Do-it-yourself Louisiana S Corporation kit, you download the document or documents that make up the kit immediately. We also email you a link that you can use to download the document or documents later.

Two Options for Setting Up an S Corporation

Let me start by explaining that you have two methods for setting up a Subchapter S corporation, or S corp:

Option 1: You can set up a limited liability company and then make the Subchapter S election to have the limited liability company treated for income tax purposes as an S corporation. Many knowledgeable accountants and attorneys now recommend the limited-liability-company route because limited liability companies are easier to "maintain" than regular corporations.

Option 2: You can set up a traditional corporation and then make the Subchapter S election to have the corporation treated for income tax purposes as an S corporation. This option may be the right choice when you want to be a corporation for credibility or "branding" reasons. For example, if you want to use the name "corporation" or the acronym "inc" in your business name, you would form a regular corporation and not a limited liability company. (A limited liability company will typically use the acronym "LLC" in its name--and some people don't like that.)

Note: Just to emphasize this point, an S corporation is not a corporation. Rather, an S corporation is an eligible entity (typically either a limited liability company or a corporation) that's made an election to be treated as a subchapter S corporation.

Once you understand that there are two ways to create an S corporation, you can choose between the two S corporation kits this web site sells.

$49 Do-it-yourself Louisiana S Corporation Kit: Limited Liability Company Version

For $49, you can purchase the 20+ page pdf document that discusses and describes the benefits of creating an S corporation using a limited liability company.

This kit explains in step-by-step fashion how to setup an Louisiana state LLC , how to get a federal tax identification number for your new LLC so you can start banking and other financial activities, and how to elect to have your LLC treated (for federal and state income tax purposes) as an S Corporation so you can maximize your tax savings.

The $49 kit includes examples of completed state and federal forms so you know exactly what your setup documents should look like.

Special Bonus:

The kit also includes two sample operating agreements, one for single member limited liability companies and one for multiple member limited liability companies!

Table of Contents - LLC Version of the Louisiana S Corporation Kit

Introduction

Understanding the Twin Benefits of an LLC

• Limited liability protection
• Tax classification flexibility

Drawbacks of a Louisiana LLC

Steps for forming an Louisiana LLC

Licensing a business in Louisiana

Precise steps for getting a Federal EIN for your LLC

Precise steps for electing S Corporation status for your LLC

Ready to buy the LLC version of the Kit? Click here:

p>$59 Do-it-yourself Louisiana S Corporation Kit: Regular Corporation Version

For $59 you can purchase the 35 page pdf document that discusses and describes the benefits of creating an S corporation using a regular, traditional corporation. Specifically, the regular-corporation version of the kit explains provides step-by-step instructions for incorporating your active trade or business in Louisiana, how to get a federal tax identification number for your new corporation so you can start banking and other financial activities, and how to elect to have your corporation treated for federal and state income tax as an S Corporation so you can maximize your tax savings.

By the way, after reading the kit document, you may decide to skip the Subchapter S election and leave your corporation taxed as a regular corporation, or C corporation. C corporations do deliver some unique tax benefits to their owners, as discussed in the kit.

Special Bonus:

The regular-corporation version of the Do-it-yourself Louisiana Incorporation Kit includes sample corporate bylaws, which you or your attorney can use as a starting point for creating your own, personalized corporation bylaws.

Table of Contents - Regular Corporation Version of the Louisiana S Corporation Kit

Introduction

Understanding the twin benefits of incorporation

• Limited liability protection
• Tax benefits of corporations

Drawbacks of a Louisiana corporation

An overview of federal and state corporate tax rules

Steps for easily incorporating a Louisiana corporation

Licensing a corporation in Louisiana

Quickly getting a federal employer identification number (EIN) for your corporation

Precise steps for electing Subchapter S Corporation, or S Corp, status for your corporation

Sample Louisiana corporation by-laws

Ready to buy the Regular Corporation Version of the kit? Click here:

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If for any reason you feel you didn't get the information you wanted in a Do-It-Yourself Kit: Louisiana S Corporation, contact me at steve dot nelson at stephenlnelson dot com and request a refund within 60 days. Your payment will be completely refunded. No questions, no hassles, no delay. (By the way, if you request a refund,we typically take a workday or two to process your request.)

About the Authors

The Do-It-Yourself Kit: Louisiana S Corporation documents were written by Stephen L. Nelson, CPA. A CPA for twenty-plus years, Nelson holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Washington and an MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University. Nelson is the author of numerous best-selling books about accounting and finance including Quicken for Dummies (which sold more than 1,000,000 copes) and QuickBooks for Dummies (which sold more than 500,000 copies). He's also taught LLC and S corporation taxation in the graduate tax school at Golden Gate University.

The sample operating agreements and sample corporate bylaws included in the Do-It-Yourself S corporation kits were written by Carl Baranowski. An attorney for two-plus decades, St. Petersburg Florida attorney Carl Baranowski has worked both as an in-house corporate counsel and as practicing attorney, serving both private and public real estate and high technology companies. Baranowski holds an MBA and JD from Stanford University as well as two master's degrees and a bachelor's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A member of both the Florida Bar and the Texas Bar, he's also the co-author of the popular legal reference, Representing High-Tech Companies (Law Journal Press, 2006).