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Creation and Capitalization

15 January, 2016 - 09:36

The S corporation is a regular corporation created upon application to the appropriate secretary of state’s office and operated according to its bylaws and shareholders’ agreements. There are, however, some limits on how the business is set up, among them the following:

  • It must be incorporated in the United States.
  • It cannot have more than one hundred shareholders (a married couple counts as one shareholder).
  • The only shareholders are individuals, estates, certain exempt organizations, or certain trusts.
  • Only US citizens and resident aliens may be shareholders.
  • The corporation has only one class of stock.
  • With some exceptions, it cannot be a bank, thrift institution, or insurance company.
  • All shareholders must consent to the S corporation election.
  • It is capitalized as is a regular corporation.