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About This Book
Keep your corporation valid in the eyes of the IRS and courts.
If you've taken the time to turn your business into a corporation, chances are you'd like to see it stay that way. Your business card may say "incorporated, " but if the courts and the IRS think differently, it's closing time. Meeting minutes are the primary paper trail of your corporation's legal life, so it's essential to know when and how to prepare these minutes.
The Corporate Records Handbook provides all the forms and instructions you need to stay legal, including:
- Call of Meeting
- Meeting Participant List
- Notice of Meeting
- Certification of Mailing
- Acknowledgment of Receipt of Notice of Meeting
- Shareholder Proxy
- Meeting Summary Sheet
- Minutes of Annual Shareholders' Meeting
- Minutes of Special Shareholders' Meeting
- Minutes of Annual Directors' Meeting
- Minutes of Special Directors' Meeting
- Waiver of Notice of Meeting
- Approval of Corporate Minutes
- Cover Letter for Approval of Minutes of Paper Meeting
- Written Consent to Action Without Meeting
The Corporate Records Handbook gives you the forms you need to keep required records, plus more than 75 additional resolutions to insert into your minutes. This edition has been updated to reflect the latest changes in the law. Forms are available through a link inside the book.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Corporate Documents and Laws
- 2. Meetings, Minutes, and Written ConsentsâHow to Document Corporate Action
- 3. Before You Hold Your MeetingâPrep Work and Notice
- 4. How to Hold a Directorsâ or ShareholdersââŻMeeting
- 5. Preparing Minutes for Shareholdersâ Meetings
- 6. Preparing Minutes for Directorsâ Meetings
- 7. Paper Meetings
- 8. Action by Written Consent
- 9. Resolutions for Authorizing Business Transactions
- 10. Corporate Tax Resolutions
- 11. Resolutions for Amending Articles or Bylaws
- 12. Corporate Hiring and Appointment Resolutions
- 13. Conflict of Interest Resolutions
- 14. Resolutions for Loans to the Corporation
- 15. Resolutions for Loans to Insiders
- 16. Fringe Benefit and Reimbursement Resolutions
- 17. Retirement Plan Resolutions
- 18. Stock Dividend Resolutions
- 19. Stock Issuance Resolutions
- 20. Lawyers, Tax Specialists, and Legal Research
- Appendix A: How to Use the Downloadable Forms on the Nolo Website
- Appendix B: How to Locate State Corporate Filing Offices and State Laws Online
- Index
- Book Registration
- Additional Business Resources at Nolo.com