LLC formation for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

CapEasy prepares and submits the state filing as an unlicensed formation preparer; multi-member agreement terms are finalised by a US attorney.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for llc formation — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

LLC formation sits inside company formation, alongside C-Corp / Delaware incorporation, US subsidiary of an Indian company, DBA / trade name registration. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

The state filing — Articles or Certificate of Organization — is nearly identical for both. The difference is the Operating Agreement: for a single-member LLC we hand over a ready-to-sign boilerplate agreement, since there's no one to negotiate terms with. For a multi-member LLC we prep a first-pass skeleton from the members' facts, and a US attorney finalises the ownership, voting and exit terms before anyone signs.

We prepare the first-pass skeleton using the ownership, contribution and role facts the members give us. Finalising the substantive terms — ownership percentages, voting rights, profit and loss allocation, and buy-sell/exit provisions — is done by a US attorney, since this is a drafting exercise with real legal weight between people who may later disagree.

It depends on what the business needs. A business that operates only where its founder lives typically files in that home state and avoids the cost of registering as a foreign LLC elsewhere. A business anticipating outside investment sometimes chooses Delaware for its established case law, but then has to foreign-qualify in whatever state it actually operates in. We lay out the trade-off; the choice is the client's.

The IRS's instant online EIN tool requires the responsible party to have an SSN or ITIN. Most India-based founders don't. In that case the application goes in on Form SS-4 with 'Foreign' written in the SSN/ITIN field, submitted by fax — roughly 4-7 business days — rather than mail, which runs 4-6 weeks for the same form.

No, and this is a common mix-up coming from India, where the LLP is the default multi-owner vehicle for any business. The US "LLP" is a narrow structure restricted to licensed professionals — attorneys, CPAs, architects and similar — and requires proof of licensure to file. A multi-member LLC is the general-purpose equivalent open to any business with more than one owner.

By default, as a partnership: the LLC files an informational Form 1065 and issues each member a Schedule K-1 reporting their share of the year's profit or loss, which flows onto that member's own tax return. A single-member LLC instead defaults to disregarded-entity treatment, where the IRS ignores the entity for tax purposes and income is reported directly by the owner. Electing corporate tax treatment instead is available but is a decision for a US CPA/EA, not something CapEasy advises on.

It depends on the current enforcement status of the Corporate Transparency Act at the time you file, which has shifted more than once. We check the live position when your filing goes in and tell you plainly whether a report currently applies to your entity, rather than assuming last year's rule still holds.

CapEasy prepares and submits the state Articles or Certificate of Organization and the SS-4 EIN application as an unlicensed formation preparer — the same category of work commercial formation sites sell without being law firms. Anything that requires a licensed professional's signature, like the finalised multi-member Operating Agreement, comes from a US attorney and you sign that directly with them.

We run the name-availability search against the state's business-name database before the Articles of Organization are filed, so a naming conflict gets caught and resolved before it costs a rejected filing and a lost cycle.

Yes — admitting a new member to a single-member LLC is a much lighter process than converting an Indian OPC to a private limited company, since there's no company-law conversion procedure involved. It does mean the boilerplate single-member Operating Agreement needs to be replaced with a real multi-member one at that point, with the same attorney-finalised terms any multi-member LLC needs.

Yes — every state requires an LLC to name a registered agent with a physical in-state address at the time of filing, and we handle that appointment as part of the formation packet.