Section 1701.95 | Liability for unlawful loans, dividends, distribution of assets.
(A) A corporation may sue and be sued. (B) A corporation may adopt and alter a corporate seal and use it or a facsimile of it, but failure to affix the corporate seal shall not affect the validity of any instrument.
(A) A corporation shall give notice of a dissolution by certified or registered mail, return receipt requested, to each known creditor and to each person that has a claim against the corporation, including claims that are conditional, unmatured, or contingent upon the occurrence or nonoccurrence of future events.
To withdraw or cancel your foreign Ohio Corporation in Ohio, you must provide the completed Certificate of Surrender of Foreign Licensed Corporation form to the Secretary of State by mail or in person. You don't have to have original signatures on the certificate. Make checks for fees payable to “Secretary of State.”
(E) A director shall be liable in damages for any action that the director takes or fails to take as a director only if it is proved by clear and convincing evidence in a court of competent jurisdiction that the director's action or failure to act involved an act or omission undertaken with deliberate intent to cause ...
Ohio corporate bylaws are a set of rules presented in a written document to govern a corporation's structure and management. While certain statutes of Ohio regulate how corporations conduct business, the company bylaws are internal regulations that officers, directors, and shareholders must follow.
The certificate of the secretary of state, or a copy of the certificate of merger or consolidation certified by the secretary of state, may be filed for record in the office of the recorder of any county in this state and, if filed, shall be recorded in the official records of that county.
The key advantages include: Double taxation. Pass-through entities avoid double taxation, meaning owners are taxed just once. The corporate income is reported on the owner's individual income tax return and taxed at the individual income tax rate.
Pass-through income is only subject to a single layer of income tax and is generally taxed as ordinary income up to the maximum 37 percent rate. However, certain pass-through income is eligible for a 20 percent deduction, which reduces the top tax rate to a maximum of 29.6 percent.
Through the IT 1140, a tax of 5 percent is withheld from the income of all qualifying individual investors, and an entity tax is calculated on the income of qualifying investors that are not individuals.