Comment by gee_totes | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gee_totes | Hacker News Reader

Yes, IANAL, but I have incorporated an LLC a few times in NY myself.

I live in Queens, and the LLC was incorporated in Queens, and our publishing fees ran about $1200.

Best to find a registered agent in Albany or somewhere with cheap newspapers and incorporate there.

But an even better plan is to go over this with your accountant, b/c where you initially incorporate may change your taxes, etc. Plus your accountant will know a heck of alot more about structuring an LLC for taxes, etc, than you.

Or another plan is to just incorporate now, forget about doing the LLC registration (you have 180 days legally), and hopefully make enough money off your app to pay the incorporation costs.

If the app busts, just close down the company and be happy you took advice from some random guy on the internet who was not a lawyer and saved you $1,000-$2,000.

I don't know anything about these northwest registered agent people other than that they are good at SEO.

But seriously, the best thing to do is talk to your accountant.

Awesome thanks. In retrospect would you have gone the registered agent route? Do you have a recommendation for an accountant? I don't have one, just moved to NYC. Also what would they charge to answer a question like this (understand you may not be able to answer the $ part)

talk to at least 2-3 accountants/CPA before you do anything. Good CPAs will always give you a free 20 min. consultant which should give you an idea of who to go with. Incorporating is not just about paperwork. It is about knowing the tricks of the business which any good CPA will know. I can recommend you talking to Allan at http://www.ratafia.com. I just fired my previous accountant and talked to him. To be fair, I have not started using his service yet but the things he discused on phone, made sense and made me realize how bad my first accountant was.

thank you.

Possibly I would have gone the registered agent account, as long as the price was close to how much it would cost to register it myself, and the registered agent was someone recommended to me personally (not found on the internet).

I've found that many registered agents will also send you a bunch of crap (official letter heads, a seal stamper, binders with your company name) and then charge you $500 more for their service vs. doing it yourself.

For NYC, I would recommend Dmitriy at www.dgatax.com. The consulting fee to sit down and talk won't be very much (I'm thinking $50-$100).

Thank you, I was thinking of just using the registered agent to allow me to publish in Albany country instead of Kings county.

According to their website (NorthWest Registered Agents), you can publish in Albany newspapers for a total of approx. $95. That would save me approx. $900.

Their fee for this is $125.

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