Every C corporation incorporated in Utah (domestic), qualified in Utah (foreign), or doing business in Utah, whether qualified or not, must file a corporate franchise tax return. C corpora- tion returns are filed on form TC-20.
The countries with the highest corporate tax rates in the world are Comoros (50 percent), Puerto Rico (37.5 percent), and Suriname (36 percent), while the countries with the lowest corporate rates are Turkmenistan (8 percent), Barbados, United Arab Emirates, and Hungary (all at 9 percent).
Corporate bylaws are a company's foundational governing document. They lay out how things should run day-to-day and the processes for making important decisions. They serve as a legal contract between the corporation and its shareholders, directors, and officers and set the protocol for how the organization operates.
Minimum corporate income tax. A minimum corporate income tax (MCIT) of two percent is imposed on the gross income of domestic and resident foreign corporations annually. It is imposed from the beginning of the fourth taxable year immediately following the commencement of the business operations of the corporation.
Utah Tax Rate: The 2024 Utah Legislature passed SB 69, lowering the corporate income tax rate from 4.65 percent to 4.55 percent.
To give your business S Corp tax status, you complete Form 2553 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). If you start your business as a Utah LLC, you have to complete Form 8832 to elect corporation status before you can begin filing Form 2553 to elect S Corp status.
It's a principle of corporate law that protects board directors and other corporate leaders from legal liability or “frivolous lawsuits” should their actions negatively impact a corporate stakeholder. But remember, they need to have acted ing to their fiduciary duty, in the shareholders' best interests.
Business Judgment Rule Where a director's decision is a reasonable one in light of all the circumstances about which the director knew or ought to have known, courts will not interfere with that decision.
"The business judgment rule is a presumption that in making a business decision, the directors of a corporation acted on an informed basis, in good faith and in the honest belief that the action taken was in the best interests of the company.