Limited Liability Companies For Dummies
Chapter One
What Is an LLC, Really?
In This Chapter
* Understanding LLC basics
* Deciding how to use your LLC
* Creating your plan
Limited liability companies have been generating a lot of buzz in the news
lately - and for good reason. It's almost as if the corporate gods have
smiled upon us and decided to improve upon the corporation and give us the
LLC (the acronym for limited liability company). Where the corporation fails,
the LLC prevails.
Think of the LLC as a merger of the partnership and the corporation, except
it has the best of both worlds - all the good qualities of each and none of the
bad. It offers full limited-liability protection to all the owners (like the corporation),
yet has a pass-through tax status (like the partnership). In addition,
the LLC has a second layer of liability protection that shi ... read full excerpt from Limited Liability Companies For Dummies ebook