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Limited Liability Company Registration Information Change Form

the following information is provided for educational purposes only and in no way constitutes legal tax or financial advice for legal tax or financial advice specific to your business needs we encourage you to consult with a licensed attorney and/or CPA in your state the following information is copyright protected no part of this lesson may be redistributed copied modified or adapted without prior written consent of the author a limited liability company is a hybrid between the corporation and a partnership an LLC protects your assets in the event of a lawsuit in order to form your LLC you must file LLC formation documents with the Secretary of State once your documents are approved and sent back to you your LLC is now in existence and authorized to do business in the state before completing your LLC formation documents you need to have two things completed first make sure you have watched the lesson on research and your LLC's name your desired LLC name must be available for use before you proceed second make sure you've watched the lesson on registered agent and that you've made your selection now let's discuss your LLC formation documents the name of the LLC formation documents for the state of Georgia are called the articles of organization and the transmittal form these documents are not complicated and they contain basic information including listing your registered office and registered agent they will also require you to list your LLC's name and the name and address of the LLC member or members we will walk you through the details of the articles of organization and transmittal form in just a couple minutes and we will make sure that you get it filled out correctly once your articles of organization and transmittal form are complete you will need to submit them to the state along with a filing fee you will find the filing fee amount the accepted forms of payment and the address where to send your documents to below this video when submitting your documents to the state you must send one original articles of organization one copy of your articles of organization and one original transmittal form an original document is one that you actually sign a copy is a duplication of the original document and it is easiest to make a copy on a copy machine however if you don't have access to a copy machine you can simply print the form again then fill it out and sign it so to repeat when submitting your documents to the state you must send one original articles of organization one copy of the articles of organization and one original transmittal form once you mail the filing fee along with your articles of organization and transmittal form the state will review and process your paperwork if there are any issues with your documents the state will mail back a letter with instructions on what needs to be corrected you will have 30 days to make these Corrections and return your documents as a state for further processing if you do not return these documents within 30 days the state will abandon your filing and keep your filing fee if there are no issues with your filing the state will send back approval for your LLC which is called the certificate of organization you'll receive the certificate within approximately 15 to 20 business days once you receive your certificate of organization your LLC is now a legally formed business in the state of Georgia the certificate of organization will contain your LLC s and D control number a number that is unique to your LLC and that you will use when filing taxes and dealing with the state please keep a copy of this document with your business records do not order your ein also known as your federal tax ID number or start to use your LLC for any business purposes until you have this approval once your LLC is formed paperwork with the state is not over as part of the ongoing requirements for your LLC Georgia requires that you pay an annual registration fee also depending on your type of business you'll be required to file state taxes we discuss these items in lesson six and lesson seven we are now ready to fill out the articles of organization and the transmittal form you can download these documents below the video let's get started the first document I'm going to discuss is the articles of organization this is a one-page document that can be filled out on the computer or it can be printed and filled out by hand if you fill it out by hand please use black ink make sure to print the document on white paper that is letter sized that's your standard eight and a half by eleven inches also I have a professional version of Adobe Acrobat you may just have the simple version called Adobe Reader and you may not have as much functionality in order to edit and type inside the document as you see here if that's the case simply print out the documents and then fill them out by hand both the articles of organization and the transmittal form do not need to be notarized alright let's get started I've already prefilled the documents in order to save time and I'm using a sample company called ABC widgets LLC and will be 10 that myself I'm the organizer the person forming the LLC and I'm also the member of the LLC we'll just call myself John Doe for these purposes at the top of the articles of organization you're essentially going to list your LLC name twice it's a little bit repetitive but it is required so underneath articles of organization you're going to fill in your LLC name make sure to include the Bree VNL LC or l dot L dot C dot the comma that you see here is optional so you can include a comma if you'd like or you can leave one out if you prefer under article one you're going to list the LLC name again and you're going to list they're going to be identical these two fields under article to management you're going to check off the last box which says management is by all the members article three duration you're going to fill in perpetual that means that the LLC is in existence until it is dissolved or shut down by the members article four is pertaining to purpose and you don't need to add anything here this is a standard clause at the bottom of the form your something going to date sign and print your name you're going to put the day of the month then the year print your name at the bottom then once you print this form out you're going to sign right where it says signature of organizer remember to either print this document twice or fill it out twice because the state requires an original signature and then a copy let's take a look at the transmittal form we're going to look at two examples of the transmittal form one where I'm going to be my own registered agent which is common if you have an address in the state and one where I've hired a commercial registered agent again I fill this document out ahead of time so let's run through the different fields underneath the first section you're going to include your email address Georgia is are pretty modern and up-to-date state and they do a lot of correspondence via email make sure to include your best email address and one that will last for many years all right let's go down to number one the top field where it says LLC name reservation number you're going to leave that blank as it's not applicable here you're going to list the name of the LLC it says here list this exactly as it appears in the articles of organization so make sure that capitalization and the comma and the way that you've listed your designator whether it's LLC or l dot L dot C dot make sure it's the same so this documents going to seem a little bit repetitive for this example because you can see myself unlisted in fields two three four and five number two is the name phone number and address where you'd like this document sent back to number three is the principal office address of the LLC this can be an actual business address or it can be a home address and you can also see here that the state does say that a Pio box is okay for the principal office address however we can't do that for number four number four is a registered agent in this case I'm going to be the registered agent for my LLC so I filled in my name and my information and number five is the name and address of each organizer the person form in the LLC so I've listed myself here and the address as well if you have two organizers you can fill that out if you have more than two organizers you can attach additional sheet make sure it's an eight-and-a-half by eleven and you can just simply list these are the additional organizers for this LLC and include their names and address so let's just go back to the top real quick so number two I want these documents sent back to me I'm going to put my name my address and I'm going to put my phone number up here number three is the principal office address of this LLC it just so happens to be my home address number four the name of the LLC's registered agent and the registered agents address again in this case it's myself and my home address the only thing different here is you'll see here that GA is automatically filled in and you'll have to list the county number five I'm going to list my name and address again because on the one forum in the LLC under number six you're going to list the date you're going to print your name here and you're going to checkoff member at the bottom and then when you print this form out you're going to sign on this line here let's take a look at a transmittal form if you're using a commercial registered agent this form is very similar we have our email address at the top the name of the LLC and number one we have my name and my address and phone number in two three is the principal office address again just so you know this can be a home address it can be a business address it can be a post office the address doesn't even have to be in Georgia actually the only address that needs to be in the state of Georgia is number four and in this case number four is different we have the name of the LLC's registered agent in this example we're using Northwest registered agent and we have their address in Roswell Fulton County and the zip code number five I've listed my name again and my address and in number six I'm going to print my name check this box member put the date and sign on this line there's a few little quirks when filling out this document in PDF format there aren't individual fields for like the city the state zip etc so when you fill out a field you have to enter the city and then hold the spacebar to bring it over here fill that in hold the spacebar to go over here and fill that in other than that these documents are pretty straightforward the articles of organization is very simple just list the name twice management perpetual date print sign your name and then transmittal form you're just going to fill this out with your basic contact information and yours may look a little bit different depending on if your principal office address is different than your personal address and whether or not you're going to be your own registered agent as you can see in this example or in this example you can see that we've used Northwest registered agent one question we do get is about the date if one can forward or backward date this document you cannot forward or backward date this document more than one week if it does happen to be the middle of December and you don't actually need the business up and running in December we recommend that you wait until January before filing the documents that way you don't have the business that's open for fifteen days during a tax year and that'll save you some money and aggravation during tax season and that wraps up this video make sure to send one original articles of organization send in a copy of the articles of organization send in one original transmittal form and send your filing fee the filing fee amount the address were to send these to and the forms of payment that are accepted are all listed below this video if you have any additional questions while going through you can also contact the state at the phone number below this video and that concludes this lesson