This practice-oriented guide for Ohio small business planners provides step-by-step guidance on how to proceed from start-up through sale or liquidation of a business.

Ohio Business Entities, Second Editionis a concise two-volume practice guide for advising a business client through all stages of the business life-cycle from creating, to maintaining, to modifying, or dissolving a business entity in Ohio. Expert authors address choice of entity and formation, financing, fiduciary duties, securities regulation and more, with a particular emphasis on understanding the tax consequences of various business decisions.

Specific topics covered include pre-incorporation planning; the mechanics of incorporation; shareholders' rights; the purchase, sale and dissolution of businesses; S corporations; state securities regulations; federal and state tax law; close corporations; limited liability companies; partnerships; business trusts and nonprofit corporations.

Each chapter includes commentary, practice tips and references to relevant state and federal case law, Ohio statutes and federal statutes, including the Internal Revenue Code. An essential collection of business forms for creating, maintaining and dissolving a business have been inserted into relevant chapters to streamline customers' search time.

The purchase includes Anderson's Ohio Business Entities Handbook, a comprehensive, yet portable, statutory reference which combines explanatory text, tax comments, and forms with pertinent Ohio Revised Code statutes to provide primary source information for the business law practitioner.

Formerly known asOhio Corporation Law with Federal Tax Analysis, this treatise first was published in 1961.

Two volumes.