Florida Professional Entity Intake Form

This is the contact information which will be used to register your business. Please double check to ensure accuracy before submitting your information.

Every corporation is legally required to have a Registered Agent to accept service of process (e.g. civil complaints in a legal proceeding ) on behalf of the corporation. Registered Agent services are included for the first year as part of our standard package. If you would like to designate a different Registered Agent, please check “no” below and provide the name of an individual and a physical address within the State of Delaware at which the designated person is generally present during normal business hours.

Owners of the corporation are called shareholders. Every corporation must authorize the number of shares available to be issued to shareholders in its Articles of Incorporation. Once all of the authorized shares have been issued, the corporation cannot issue additional new shares until the Articles of Incorporation are amended to authorize more shares.

Unless otherwise specified, we recommend authorizing 10,000 shares of stock and then issuing only 1,000 shares to the initial shareholders, leaving 9,000 shares available for future investors and shareholders. Each shareholder’s percentage ownership interest is determined by dividing the number of shares issued to the shareholder by the total number of shares issued to all shareholders. For example, if there are two initial shareholders who each want to own 50% of the corporation, each shareholder would be issued 500 shares.

A corporation must pay corporate taxes on its profits at the state and federal levels unless it makes an S-Corp election, which allows the profits and losses to pass through to the individual shareholders. This avoids double taxation on profits at the corporate level and on dividends at the individual shareholder level. You cannot make the S-Corp election if there will be more than 100 shareholders or if any of the shareholders is a corporation or LLC.

Corporations are managed by the directors. The minimum number of directors is three (3) unless there are fewer than three (3) shareholders, in which case the number of directors may be equal to the number of shareholders (e.g. if there is only one (1) shareholder, only one (1) director is legally required.)

Unless otherwise specified, all shareholders will be listed as directors with the corporation’s address as the contact address for each director.

Officers are appointed by the Board of Directors and each corporation is required to have the following three corporate officers: CEO/President, CFO/Treasurer, and Secretary. One person may serve as one, two or all three officers at the same time.

All corporations are required to have a Federal Employee Identification Number (“FEIN” or just “EIN”). In order to obtain an EIN, the IRS requires the corporation to designate one executive of the corporation (generally the CEO) to be the responsible party for the corporation. The IRS requires the social security number of the responsible party to be included in the application for the EIN.

General information about your company which will help us properly file your application with the state.