Corporate Compliance Requirements

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Business Tax Registration, Tax Requirements and Licensing Notice

CorpDirect Agents is not able to assist with the corporate compliance requirements for tax, licensing or other regulatory matters. Clients should be aware that business entities are responsible for meeting various agency reporting requirements at the local (city and county), state and federal level. As an example, entities may be required to meet initial registration as well as annual obligations relating to local and/or state business licenses, local and/or state occupational licenses, local and/or state professional licenses, federal and/or state corporate income taxes, local and/or state sales taxes, federal and/or state unemployment compensation taxes, federal and/or state workers compensation taxes, state franchise taxes, etc. Clients can find links to state and federal authorities from our Resource Center.

Annual Report Reminders

CorpDirect Agents is not responsible as the registered agent for filing clients' annual reports, however, we provide the tools to assist clients with keeping their entities in corporate registration goodstanding. Most state laws require each business organization to file annual or periodic reports with the Secretary of State, or a similar custodian of corporate records, in order to maintain information on its mailing address, principal address, principals, capital contributions and other corporate information. These filings are generally referred to as Annual Reports although some states require the filings at different frequencies. If these annual reports are not filed, an entity can be administratively dissolved.

As a value added to our registered agent service, we provide reminders of due dates for annual or periodic reports required at the Secretary of State or its equivalent to maintain goodstanding of the business registration. The reminders are sent 60 days prior a report being due, where possible. In certain instances, our system may not be able to calculate a due date; therefore, a reminder cannot be generated. This is usually the case when a report due date is calculated based on a Fiscal Year End date and such has not been provided to us to maintain in EMS. Additionally, if an entity is an LLC, the required report and its due date may be based on whether the entity is taxed federally as a corporation. We therefore must have on record the entity type for federal tax reporting purposes. For these reasons, clients must provide such information in order to receive reminders. This information can be provided using the Company/Contact Information Update Form.

Please note that we do not provide reminders for any tax related reports except for business privilege tax reports in Alabama, franchise tax reports in Arkansas, franchise tax reports in Delaware, personal property tax reports in Maryland, and franchise tax reports in Texas. We provide reminders for these filings as they directly effect the corporate registration goodstanding.

Annual report compliance data and a complete list of the reports for which we provide reminders is available for all states from the Resources tab and CorpDirect EMS. Additionally, entity specific annual report requirements is available from the entity record maintained in EMS.

Although we are not responsible for the actual filing of your annual reports, we do offer an add-on Annual Report Compliance Service to compliment our registered agent service. This service consists of our monitoring when initial or periodic report filings are due to maintain the jurisdictional good standing at the Secretary of State level, then preparing and filing the required reports in our clients behalf.