Another very important reason you should hire me to form your Arizona LLC or PLLC is because purchasers of our Silver and Gold LLC packages get access to a book my son and I wrote called the “Arizona LLC Operations Manual.” This ebook contains the answers to the common questions people ask us after we form their LLC.
Nobody else who form Arizona LLCs give a detailed operational book to their clients or customers. You only get this comprehensive book from us.
Chapter 3 of the Operations Manual is a checklist of 33 important post formation tasks that should be done in the first 75 days after the LLC or PLLC is formed. You won’t get this important task list from anybody except me.
Here is the table of contents of the Operations Manual:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Section 1.1 Overview of the Operations Manual
Section 1.2 Arizona LLC Law
Section 1.3 The KEYTLaw Arizona LLC Law Website
Section 1.4 Other KEYTLaw Websites
Section 1.5 Visit the KEYTLaw Youtube Channel
Section 1.6 Please Give Me a Testimonial
Section 1.7 Legal Services Offered by KEYTLaw Attorneys
Section 1.8 KEYTLaw is a Full Service Law Firm: Forming LLCs is One of the Many Legal Services We Offer
Section 1.9 KEYTLaw Attorney & Staff Contact Information
Chapter 2 Formation of the Company
Section 2.1 Articles of Organization Submitted to the Arizona Corporation Commission
Section 2.2 When the New Company May Begin Doing Business
Section 2.3 Newspaper Publication
Section 2.4 When a Confidential Trust Owns an Interest in Your LLC
Section 2.5 How to Amend Your Confidential Trust
Chapter 3 Important Tasks to Accomplish in the 1st 75 Days
Section 3.1 Important LLC Formation Tasks to Accomplish in the First 75 Days
Section 3.2 The Operations Compliance Alert System
Chapter 4 Arizona Limited Liability Companies
Section 4.1 General Information About Arizona Limited Liability Companies
Section 4.2 The Two Types of LLCs: PLLCs vs. LLCs
Section 4.3 Statutory Difference between LLCs and PLLCs
Section 4.4 Professional Real Estate Service PLLCs
Section 4.5 Members
Section 4.6 Management: Member Managed or Manager Managed
Section 4.7 Fiduciary Duties of Members of Member Managed LLCs & PLLCs
Section 4.8 Fiduciary Duties of Managers of Manager Managed LLCs & PLLCs
Section 4.9 Liability for Filing a False Document with the Arizona Corporation Commission
Section 4.10 Annual Meetings of Members and Managers
Section 4.11 When the LLC Must Amend Its Articles of Organization
Section 4.12 What is an Authorized Filer & When Does Your LLC or PLLC Need One?
Section 4.13 Why It Is Important to Document Changes of Members and Their Percentage Interests in the Company
Section 4.14 Arizona Statutory Requirements to Become a Member of an Arizona LLC
Section 4.15 How to Add or Delete a Member or Change the Percentage Interests of Members
Section 4.16 How to Hire Richard Keyt to Document the Addition or Removal of a Member
Section 4.17 How to Change the Name of an Arizona LLC
Section 4.18 The Company’s Known Place of Business
Chapter 5 Operating the Company
Section 5.1 Get an IRS Employer Identification Number for the LLC
Section 5.2 Open a Bank Account in the Name of the LLC
Section 5.3 Have all Members Sign an Operating Agreement
Section 5.4 Books and Accounting
Section 5.5 Hire an Accountant
Section 5.6 Accountants Recommended by Richard Keyt
Section 5.7 Recordkeeping Requirements
Section 5.8 Members’ Right to Inspect Company Records
Section 5.9 How the Company Should Sign Contracts
Section 5.10 Can the Company Engage in More than One Activity?
Section 5.11 How Should the LLC Hold Title to Assets?
Section 5.12 Trademarks & Service Marks
Section 5.13 Arizona Trade Names
Section 5.14 Arizona DBA or “Doing Business As”
Section 5.15 How to Search the Arizona Secretary of State’s Database of Registered Trade Name
Section 5.16 How to Register an Arizona Trade Name / DBA
Section 5.17 How to Apply for an Arizona Trade Name When Your Trust Owns Your LLC
Section 5.18 The Trust Letter
Section 5.19 Copyrights
Section 5.20 How to Transfer Real Estate to the LLC
Section 5.21 How to Prevent the Loss of Title Insurance on Real Property Transferred to the Company
Section 5.22 Title-Insurance Endorsements for Limited Liability Company Transactions
Section 5.23 Insuring Real Property Acquired by the Company
Section 5.24 Due on Sale Clauses in Real Estate Loan Documents
Section 5.25 Doing Business Outside Arizona
Chapter 6 LLC Operating Agreements
Section 6.1 What is an Operating Agreement?
Section 6.2 How is an Arizona LLC Governed if It does not have an Operating Agreement?
Section 6.3 Examples of the Arizona LLC Act’s Default Treatment with Respect to Common LLC Situations When the Members Have Not Signed an Operating Agreement
Section 6.4 The Proposed Operating Agreement
Section 6.5 Important Provisions in Your KEYTLaw Prepared Operating Agreement
Section 6.6 What Should You Do If Your Operating Agreement Contains a Springing Member Provision?
Section 6.7 What Should You Do If Your Operating Agreement Contains a Noneconomic Member Provision?
Section 6.8 How to Modify the Operating Agreement
Section 6.9 How to Create a Legally Binding Obligation on a Member to Contribute Money or Property
Section 6.10 All Members Need to Sign the Operating Agreement
Section 6.11 How to Make Changes to the Operating Agreement
Section 6.12 How to Obtain an Operating Agreement for an LLC Not Formed by Richard Keyt
Chapter 7 Buy Sell Agreement for Multi-Member LLCs
Section 7.1 What is a Buy Sell Agreement
Section 7.2 Why Multi-Member LLCs Must Adopt a Buy Sell Agreement
Section 7.3 Typical Buy-Sell Triggering Events
Section 7.4 Fixing the Purchase Price on a Buy-Out
Section 7.5 Mandatory Versus Optional Triggering Events
Section 7.6 Terms and Conditions of the Purchase
Section 7.7 Buy Sell Agreement Preparation Service
Section 7.8 My Fee to Prepare a Buy Sell Agreement
Section 7.9 Our Fee Includes Attorney Consultation & Revision Time
Section 7.10 How to Hire Me to Prepare a Buy Sell Agreement
Section 7.11 My Recommendation for Multi-Member LLCs
Section 7.12 Best Time to Adopt a Buy Sell Agreement
Chapter 8 Community & Separate Property
Section 8.1 Why You Must Understand Community & Separate Property Law & the Consequences of Not Understanding
Section 8.2 How to Determine if a Married Member Owns an Interest in the Company as Separate Property or Community Property
Section 8.3 Sample Disclaimer Form to Be Signed by a Spouse Who Does Not Own an Interest in the LLC
Section 8.4 About the Disclaimer Found as an Exhibit to Your Operating Agreement
Section 8.5 Statement of Character of Membership in the Operating Agreement
Section 8.6 Affect of Arizona Community Property Law on Nonresidents of Arizona
Section 8.7 Disclaimer to Be Signed by Spouse of a Member Who Owns His or Her Interest as Separate Property
Chapter 9 What Happens to a Member’s Interest on Death?
Section 9.1 Disposition of a Membership Interest After Death Depends on How the Deceased Member Holds Title to the Interest
Section 9.2 Joint Tenancy with Right of Survivorship (JTWROS)
Section 9.3 Tenants in Common
Section 9.4 Community Property
Section 9.5 Community Property with Right of Survivorship
Section 9.6 Arizona Law Presumption that Property Acquired by Either Spouse During Marriage is Community Property
Section 9.7 Caution For Married Arizona Members Who Intend to Acquire an Interest in an LLC as Separate Property – the Nonmember Spouse Must Sign a Disclaimer
Section 9.8 How to Determine How an Unmarried Person Holds Title to His or Her Membership Interest in an Arizona Limited Liability Company
Section 9.9 How to Determine How a Married Member Holds Title to His or Her Membership Interest in an Arizona Limited Liability Company
Section 9.10 How Most Members Hold Title Their Membership Interest in an LLC
Section 9.11 Who Will Inherit Your Membership Interest When You Die?
Section 9.12 What You Must Do to Insure that When You Die Your Membership Interest Will be Inherited by the Person(s) You Chose as Quickly and Inexpensively as Possible
Chapter 10 When Arizona LLCs Do Not Provide Limited Liability
Section 10.1 Fundamental Rules of Asset Protection
Section 10.2 General Rule: Members and Managers of an Arizona LLC are Not Liable for Debts of the Company
Section 10.3 When an LLC Does Not Protect Members and Managers from the Company’s Liabilities
Section 10.4 The Importance of Complying with Arizona LLC Law
Section 10.5 Piercing the Corporate / Company Veil – the Ultimate Disaster
Section 10.6 Factors that Increase the Risk that a Court May Pierce the Company Veil and Hold the Members Liable for the LLC’s Debts
Section 10.7 Personal Guarantees
Section 10.8 Liability for False Statements in the Articles of Organization
Section 10.9 When Should You Diversify & Form a New LLC?
Chapter 11 Federal Income Tax Issues
Section 11.1 Federal Employer Identification Numbers
Section 11.2 We Get the EIN for Purchasers of Our Silver & Gold LLC Packages
Section 11.3 How to Get a Federal Employer Identification Number for Your LLC
Section 11.4 Update Your LLC’s EIN Information if there is a Change in the Responsible Party or Contact Information
Section 11.5 How to Notify the IRS If You Change the Name of Your Company
Section 11.6 How Non-U.S. Citizens Get an EIN for Their LLC
Section 11.7 How to Get Your LLC’s EIN if You Lose It
Section 11.8 Federal Income Taxation of LLC
Section 11.9 Electing C Corporation or S Corporation Tax Status
Section 11.10 Relief for Late Filing of Form 2553 to Elect S Corp Status
Section 11.11 Partnership Taxation Issues
Section 11.12 Federal Tax Forms
Section 11.13 Request for Taxpayer Identification Number: IRS Form W-9
Section 11.14 KEYTLaw Not Hired to Give Tax Advice
Chapter 12 Employees and Independent Contractors
Section 12.1 Employees, Payroll Taxes and the Importance of Hiring a Payroll Service to Do Payroll & Prepare & File Payroll Tax Returns
Section 12.2 The General Rule for Employees & Independent Contractors
Section 12.3 The Importance of Properly Classifying Employees & Independent Contractors
Section 12.4 Who is an Independent Contractor?
Section 12.5 How to Report Payments Made to Independent Contractors
Section 12.6 Common-Law Employees
Section 12.7 Common-Law Rules – Factors Considered by the IRS
Section 12.8 Statutory Employees
Section 12.9 Social Security and Medicare Taxes for Statutory Employees
Section 12.10 Statutory Nonemployees
Section 12.11 Misclassification of Employees
Section 12.12 What to Do If You Are Unsure About a Worker’s Status
Section 12.13 Where to Get More Information on This Topic
Chapter 13 Arizona Taxes & Unemployment Insurance
Section 13.1 How to Obtain an Arizona State Tax ID Number, Use Tax & Employer Withholding Number
Section 13.2 Arizona Department of Revenue E-Business Services
Section 13.3 Withholding of State Income Tax from Wages
Section 13.4 Arizona Income Tax Withholding Frequently Asked Questions
Section 13.5 Arizona Use Tax
Section 13.6 Arizona Unemployment Insurance
Chapter 14 Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax
Section 14.1 What is the Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax?
Section 14.2 More About the Arizona Transaction Privilege Tax
Section 14.3 How to Apply for the Transaction Privilege Tax License Online
Section 14.4 Arizona City Transaction Privilege Taxes
Section 14.5 Arizona Cities that are “Nonprogram” TPT Cities
Section 14.6 How to Check if an Arizona City Has Licensing Information Online
Section 14.7 Changes that Affect the TPT License
Section 14.8 Due Dates of TPT Returns
Section 14.9 Transaction Privilege Tax Special Situations
Section 14.10 How to Cancel a TPT License
Chapter 15 Arizona Statutory Agent Requirements
Section 15.1 What is an Arizona Statutory Agent?
Section 15.2 Why the Statutory Agent is Important
Section 15.3 Who Should Be the Company’s Statutory Agent
Section 15.4 KEYTLaw Statutory Agent Service
Section 15.5 How to Change the Company’s Statutory Agent
Section 15.6 $100 Fee to Reinstate the Company if the Arizona Corporation Commission Terminates the Company
Section 15.7 How to Review the ACC’s Records About the Company
Chapter 16 KEYTLaw Legal Representation
Section 16.1 Scope of Legal Services
Section 16.2 Additional Legal Services
Section 16.3 KEYTLaw Document Retention Policy
Section 16.4 Disputes
Chapter 17 Legal Services Provided by KEYTLaw Attorneys
Section 17.1 KEYTLaw Attorney & Staff Contact Information
Section 17.2 KEYTLaw’s Business Legal Services
Chapter 18 LLC Legal Audit
To hire us to form your LLC within 24 hours of you paying us and approving your company's formation questionnaire, select one of the following options:
2. Online: Complete our online LLC Formation Questionnaire.We'd love to talk to you. If you have any questions about forming or operating an Arizona LLC, please call Richard Keyt (480-664-7478) or his son LLC attorney and former CPA Richard C. Keyt (480-664-7472). We don't charge to answer LLC questions.
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