{"id":8,"date":"2006-06-02T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.incorporateyourbusiness.info\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2006-06-02T16:01:45","modified_gmt":"2006-06-02T20:01:45","slug":"entrepreneur-and-ceo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/entrepreneur-and-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"From Entrepreneur to President &#038; CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Launching your own business is a necessity for many in today&#8217;s world.\u00c2\u00a0 Corporate downsizing and natural disasters have forced many people to create their own opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0With the experts warning of a coming pandemic, even more entrepreneurs are hurriedly trying to throw together a company that can keep them out of the public workforce and profiting from the comfort of their own home.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Others hit a glass ceiling and have nowhere else to go in the corporate world, so they launch their own companies to become top dog and sit in a position with no boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Self-employed individuals and small businesses are no longer a rarity &#8211; they&#8217;re becoming the norm in today&#8217;s society.\u00c2\u00a0 At a time when fortune 500 companies are having massive layoffs, the opposite is true for entrepreneurs &#8211; their existence is surging at an amazing rate!<\/p>\n<p>Not every element of incorporating can have a silver lining.\u00c2\u00a0 There will be some things you like about it, and others you dislike. Aside from the tax benefits a corporation will offer you, there are also business reasons to incorporate &#8211; such as branding value and the ability to raise capital when necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Many people are intimidated at the thought of incorporating.\u00c2\u00a0 It seems to them like something only &#8220;big money&#8221; businesses would do.\u00c2\u00a0 But anyone can incorporate &#8211; from the guy who mows your lawn to a grandmother whose eBay business is gaining speed.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest reason people choose to incorporate is to save money.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;re self-employed, Uncle Sam takes a large chunk of your earnings.\u00c2\u00a0 But with a corporation in place, much of your income is sheltered from taxes.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll also have a greater place in society as a corporation.\u00c2\u00a0 Business offers will flood in to a corporation &#8211; from corporate credit accounts to discounts at local or national stores.<\/p>\n<p>If there comes a time when you need to hire a staff, they&#8217;ll feel better about applying for a job with a corporation than they will with a small business &#8211; often due to the failure rates for small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to offer the corporate employees better medical, dental, and vision plans.\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;ll also have the protection of worker&#8217;s compensation, which is something unavailable to self-employed individuals.\u00c2\u00a0 And if you are incorporated, you can deduct all of your family&#8217;s medical bills as a business expense.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So what are the drawbacks of incorporating?<\/p>\n<p>Well if you hate paperwork and keeping records, then you won&#8217;t much like being a corporation.\u00c2\u00a0 But we can show you how to minimize the stress of those tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Also, you&#8217;ll be setting your own salary and budgeting your corporation&#8217;s money, so you need to be financially savvy about what&#8217;s good for your business and your personal income.<\/p>\n<p>You may also need to have someone else handle your taxes, since you&#8217;ll be paying numerous tax bills.\u00c2\u00a0 However, the numbers on those bills will be significantly less than it was when before you incorporated.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You will be filing paperwork for two taxes &#8211; the corporation&#8217;s and your personal taxes. As your earnings increase, you&#8217;ll save even more with a corporation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0Launching your own business is a necessity for many in today&#8217;s world.\u00c2\u00a0 Corporate downsizing and natural disasters have forced many people to create their own opportunities. \u00c2\u00a0With the experts warning of a coming pandemic, even more entrepreneurs are hurriedly trying to throw together a company that can keep them out of the public workforce and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/incorporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}