
"I can keep my business license in my home state, even if I move to another?
I have a business license in my home state of Montana. Soon be moving to Arizona, where my children (and grandchild again!) In vivo. My job is such that I can I done from anywhere and will spend a good part of each year in Oregon as well. My bookkeeper and banking institution will remain in Montana. Can anyone tell me if I need to register my company in other states, or if I can travel around and leave my business base of operations where is it?
A LLC is a type of legal entity created as a means of doing business. Each LLC has to be created under the laws of a state. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_liability_company If you are going to conduct business in another state through the LLC, you will need to register the LLC as a foreign entity and the state, pay the duties and designate an agent for service of process. If you are going to be doing business in that state, you must also register for the state can collect any sales or other taxes to be on sales in that state. Each state has its own rules on what constitutes "doing business" in that state. The best advice I can give here is that talk to a lawyer in Arizona and Oregon as to whether the LLC is doing business in that state. For example, if your LLC was hired by someone in Montana to design a website, the fact you are a resident of a physical place else may not be sufficient to constitute "doing business" in that state, even if you are doing as an individual work in Arizona or Oregon. States to make money out of the alien registration card (out of state) business entities, so their rules are generally written in a sufficiently broad to include many entities, many. But the laws of each state vary, so nobody can give a good answer without knowing the details of what you do and how ago. It matters a lot if you advertise in other states, purchase or sale of goods and services there, etc. Sorry I can not give more than one answer, but each company operates different and the laws of each state are different. The safe course of action is to go ahead and register if you have any doubt about whether you are doing business in that state.
John Fagundes, Phoenix, AZ, Realtor
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