https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com The paperwork that keeps your business alive after you form it. en Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:41:32 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/home-based-business-license-zoning-permit/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/home-based-business-license-zoning-permit/ Working from home usually means two approvals at two offices, not one. The zoning half has hard numbers: floor area, customers a day, who you must notify. Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/operating-agreement-clauses-you-will-reopen/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/operating-agreement-clauses-you-will-reopen/ Most of an LLC operating agreement is signed once and filed away. A few sections get pulled back out - after a member leaves, dies, or a vote ties 50/50. Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/adding-or-removing-an-llc-member/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/adding-or-removing-an-llc-member/ Most states never see a member change - it lives in your operating agreement. A few demand a filing within 30 days. How to tell which kind you're in. Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/reinstate-llc-or-start-a-new-one/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/reinstate-llc-or-start-a-new-one/ Filing fees make a new LLC look cheaper, and that is the trap. What reinstatement carries that a fresh company cannot, and when the window has already closed. Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/foreign-llc-certificate-of-withdrawal/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/foreign-llc-certificate-of-withdrawal/ Leaving a state does not end your registration there. Texas wants a tax certificate first; California counts from your final return. The order that works. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/sales-tax-permit-for-llc-application/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/sales-tax-permit-for-llc-application/ What the sales tax application asks an LLC for, which answers get it bounced or bonded, and why the permit owes returns even in months you sell nothing. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/form-ss-4-for-llc-line-by-line/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/form-ss-4-for-llc-line-by-line/ The online assistant asks the same questions as the paper form, discards your answers when one fails, and gives you a three-digit code instead of a reason. Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/how-to-change-your-llc-name/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/how-to-change-your-llc-name/ The amendment at your home state is the short part. The new name also has to clear in every state that already holds a registration - and one can suspend you. Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/agent/service-of-process-for-llc/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/agent/service-of-process-for-llc/ The packet names a court, a case number, and a date that is not your deadline. What is inside it, who may legally accept it, and where the answer clock starts. Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/administratively-dissolved-llc-reinstatement/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/administratively-dissolved-llc-reinstatement/ Which form, which agency goes first, what the tax clearance letter is for, and whether reinstatement really rewinds the months your company was dissolved. Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/foreign-qualification-step-by-step/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/foreign-qualification-step-by-step/ In some states the good-standing certificate you attach dies after 90 days. Order it first and the registration stalls. Here is the sequence that works. Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/beneficial-ownership-2026-rule-who-still-files/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/formation/beneficial-ownership-2026-rule-who-still-files/ The final rule took effect 14 August 2026: US-formed companies are out of BOI reporting for good. Formed abroad and registered in a state? You still file. Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/closing/after-dissolution-final-returns-ein-letter-records/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/closing/after-dissolution-final-returns-ein-letter-records/ The state accepted your dissolution. The IRS has not heard. Which return boxes to check, why the EIN letter has two addresses, and how long the files stay. Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/moving-an-llc-to-another-state-three-routes/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/changes/moving-an-llc-to-another-state-three-routes/ Domestication needs two states to agree, registering in both doubles your filings, starting over resets your formation date. What each route costs you. Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/annual/six-recurring-dates-one-llc-calendar/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/annual/six-recurring-dates-one-llc-calendar/ Your filing office, your tax agency, the IRS and your city each run a clock that ignores the other three. Six lookups, and the mail stops being your system. Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/annual/annual-report-franchise-tax-license-three-bills/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/annual/annual-report-franchise-tax-license-three-bills/ Three envelopes, three agencies, and a fourth from a private company charging ten times the state fee. Six checks that tell you which bill you are holding. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/missed-annual-report-week-by-week/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/recovery/missed-annual-report-week-by-week/ The deadline passed and nothing visibly happened. Here is the sequence your state is now running, which week is still cheap to fix, and where that stops. Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/one-remote-hire-in-another-state/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/multistate/one-remote-hire-in-another-state/ You hired one person who lives somewhere your company has never filed anything. Here is every registration that opens, and which clock starts first. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/permit-stack-state-county-city-industry/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/permit-stack-state-county-city-industry/ Four lookups in a fixed order, the exact search box each one ends at, and what an empty result actually means at the state, county, city, and board level. Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/dba-fictitious-names-county-state-publication/ https://entityupkeep.docsanddeadlines.com/licenses/dba-fictitious-names-county-state-publication/ One name, four legal words for it, two possible offices. Where the filing goes, when a newspaper has to run it, and what skipping that ad costs later. Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000