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Showing 4 posts from August 2013.
The Importance of a Registered Agent for Your Business
Many business owners who are just starting out often overlook the fact that they need to appoint a registered agent. All corporations, nonprofits, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and limited liability limited partnerships must continually maintain a Kentucky registered agent. A registered agent is simply the agent for service of process, notice, or demand required or permitted by law to be served on the business entity. Registered agents routinely receive important mail from the state, like annual reports or statements and tax documents. Service of process is the document which initiates a lawsuit against your company and starts the tolling of the statute of limitations. More >
Is My Business Required to Use E-Verify?
Federal law prohibits employers in the United States from employing individuals who may not legally work in the U.S. Electronic employment verification, or E-Verify, is the system Congress established to allow U.S. employers to determine whether a prospective employee may legally work in the U.S. E-Verify supplements the I-9 process; an employer cannot initiate an E-Verify query for a new hire until after the I-9 process is complete. The internet-based system allows businesses to determine whether their work force is legal. Despite the system being free and relatively easy to use, many business owners still want to know if they are legally obligated to use it. More >
Could Your Business Qualify for a 179D Green Building Tax Break?
If your company has built a new facility or upgraded an existing one anytime in the past six years, you might find that you qualify -- at least partially -- for a tax break of up to $1.80 per square foot under federal tax code section 179D, or the energy efficient commercial buildings deduction. This could be the case even if you had no concrete intention to focus on green building standards at the time. More >
The Sooner, the Better: Not Always True with Trusts
It is a story that estate planning lawyers are all too familiar with: a well-intentioned parent or relative establishes a trust for a child, the child reaches age eighteen - the age of distribution specified by the trust, and bam! The trust funds are gone in a flash; an inheritance spent on cars, clothes, or fancy vacations - not at all what the grantor of the trust had in mind for the beneficiary. More >
