AOPA Plane Giveaway and Taxes

Depends on the state you live in. Each winner would have to look at the
incorporation cost of their own state. In California its $800/yr. I
believe New York is similar. AZ and NV don't tax it at all. In
otherwords, as an example, California charges $800/yr, you may want to
check your state.

Robert M. Gary wrote:
Depends on the state you live in. Each winner would have to look at the
incorporation cost of their own state. In California its $800/yr. I
believe New York is similar. AZ and NV don't tax it at all. In
otherwords, as an example, California charges $800/yr, you may want to
check your state.

I'm still unsure what you mean, so I'll get specific. What if a Californian
incorporates in Delaware? Will California still assess the $800/year tax?

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

George Patterson wrote in
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Robert M. Gary wrote:
Depends on the state you live in. Each winner would have to look at
the incorporation cost of their own state. In California its $800/yr.
I believe New York is similar. AZ and NV don't tax it at all. In
otherwords, as an example, California charges $800/yr, you may want
to check your state.

I'm still unsure what you mean, so I'll get specific. What if a
Californian incorporates in Delaware? Will California still assess the
$800/year tax?

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights
belong to your slightly older self.

If you conduct business in California (like base the aircraft in the
state), you will have to register as a "foreign" corporation which incurs
the same $800 tax. When we incorporated our aircraft, we looked into doing
it in Nevada, but found out we would still have to pay this tax and would
also need to maintain a Nevada address.

--
Marty Shapiro
Silicon Rallye Inc.

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Yes. California has "like taxes" for all our residence taxes. So if you
have a California corp you pay $800/yr "minimum franchise tax". If you
have an out of state company but do business in California we have a
"Foreign Corp" tax of....guess what.... $800/yr minimum.

Its just like sales tax. If you buy something in California you pay
about 8% sales tax. If you buy it out of state but bring it to
California you pay about 8% "use tax".

They'll get you either way. There are lots of stories of people setting
up corps in California and then not using them for anything. At some
point the state finds out about them and goes after them for $800/yr
plus interest/penalities/etc. Even though the corp never actually did
business in California.

BTW: All this applies the same for LLCs and the old fashion, never used
anymore, s-corps.

-Robert