Freelancers U
June
10
Should I Incorporate?
Deciding whether you should officially incorporate your freelance business is a complex decision. The legal entity you choose for your business impacts your finances, taxes, bookkeeping requirements, and personal liability, and everyone’s needs are different.
Join Freelancers U for a seminar on the ins and outs of incorporating from both taxation and legal perspectives. Howard Samuels, CPA MST and Scott A. Lucas, Esq. will discuss:
- Structural differences between S-Corps, C-Corps, LLCs, and Sole Proprietorships.
- How business entities differ for tax purposes.
- How business entities are taxed on a state/city level.
- How business entities differ from a legal and personal liability standpoint.
- How to ensure that a creditor will not “pierce” the corporation or LLC to hold you personally liable.
- Accounting/Bookkeeping requirements for entities.
- How to hire an accountant for your business.
- What to ask when retaining a lawyer for your business.
Scott Lucas is the Principal at the Law Offices of Scott A. Lucas and has been practicing law since 1995. The Law Offices of Scott A. Lucas handles a broad range of employment-related disputes, including overtime claims, commission claims, wage claims, breach of contract disputes and severance negotiations. The Firm also handles general civil litigation at the trial and appellate levels.
Howard Samuels, CPA MST, is a partner in S&C LLP, a New York City based certified public accounting firm providing accounting, bookkeeping and tax services for individuals and small- to medium-sized businesses. Howard has a Masters Degree in Taxation from Pace University and holds his undergraduate degree in accounting from Syracuse University. Howard has been practicing accounting and tax for approximately 17 years.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED DUE TO FULL CAPACITY.
- Date:
- Tuesday, June 10, 2008
- Time:
- 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM
- Location:
- Empire Building /15 Metro Tech Center/Brooklyn, NY
