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Guides worth reading before you file

Written for the reader, not for us. Every figure is cited to the state, the statute or the IRS, and where the honest answer is that you do not need us, we say so.

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The Wyoming LLC, explained honestly
What a Wyoming LLC actually gives you, what it costs, what is public, and the cases where it is the wrong answer.
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16 min read
The Delaware LLC, explained honestly
What Delaware actually gives you, the $400 a year it costs, why the investor argument points at a different entity type, and when it is the wrong answer.
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20 min read
The New Mexico LLC, explained honestly
The one state where an LLC files nothing each year and pays nothing each year — what that is worth, what the register actually publishes, and when it is the wrong answer.
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19 min read
The Florida LLC, explained honestly
No personal income tax, a $400 late fee that catches people every 1 May, and a register that publishes your EIN and lets anyone search backwards from it.
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20 min read
The Texas LLC, explained honestly
The $300 filing fee, the report you file even owing nothing, and a formation document that names a manager or member with no way to leave the field empty.
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21 min read
The Nevada LLC, explained honestly
The state marketed hardest on privacy names a person on the formation document and again every year — while its charging-order statute is genuinely one of the strongest, and its own website makes no privacy claim at all.
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22 min read
The California LLC, explained honestly
The filing fee is $70, the first year is $890, and above $250,000 of California income there is a second annual fee on top of the $800 — plus the statutory reason that forming in Nevada or Wyoming does not avoid any of it.
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26 min read
The New York LLC, explained honestly
The state charges $250. The largest cost is six weeks of newspaper advertising the state neither prices nor collects, and the county named in your articles can move it tenfold — plus the four provisions that make forming elsewhere no escape.
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In progress
How to reinstate a dissolved LLC
What administrative dissolution actually means, what it does not mean, and how to fix it yourself.
Coming soon
In progress
What is public about your LLC
State by state: what the register shows, what it does not, and who knows regardless.
Coming soon

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The guides above are the long reads. Alongside them we keep a library of narrower pieces — what a BOI report is and who still files one, how to pay yourself from an LLC, what is genuinely free and what never is. Each one is dated with the day we last checked it.

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Guides worth reading before you file

The Wyoming LLC, explained honestly

The Delaware LLC, explained honestly

The New Mexico LLC, explained honestly

The Florida LLC, explained honestly

The Texas LLC, explained honestly

The Nevada LLC, explained honestly

The California LLC, explained honestly

The New York LLC, explained honestly

How to reinstate a dissolved LLC

What is public about your LLC

Shorter answers to single questions