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Types of Entities for New Arizona Companies

by Richard Keyt, Arizona LLC, corporate and business lawyer

People who start new businesses or purchase investment assets in Arizona and people who want to own, operate or hold assets in an Arizona entity to limit their liability to creditors must chose one of seven or more types of entities.  The type of entity selected by a new business owner may have significant income tax and asset protection consequences. 

I wrote a series of nine related articles about the seven types of entities most commonly used in Arizona to operate a business and hold business assets.  The articles discuss each entity type in terms of ease and cost of formation, number of owners & restrictions on ownership, privacy, control and management, owners protection from liabilities of the entity, and federal income taxation issues.

The articles are: 

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This article was first published on January 20, 2003.

About the Author

Richard Keyt, J.D., LL.M. (income taxation New York University Law School) is a business, real estate, transactions, contracts and estate planning attorney licensed to practice law in Arizona.  He has formed over 2,200+ Arizona limited liability companies in the last few years because his low cost high quality LLC package is second to none and it only costs $599 for everything.  Rick has practiced law in Arizona since 1980.  Rick can be reached by telephone at 602-906-4953, ext. 3.  Email at  rickkeyt@keytlaw.com and fax at 602-297-6890.  Rick's web site located at www.keytlaw.com had over 3,000,000 visitors in 2006 - 2008.  To follow Rick on Twitter go to www.keytlaw.com/twitter.  Rick does not accept matters involving landlord / tenant disputes or litigation of any kind (other than tax lien foreclosures).  Communicating with Richard Keyt via email or otherwise does not cause you to become a client or cause your communications to be confidential or subject to the attorney client privilege.

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