[TriLUG] making a techie S-Crop in NC? (was Re: Red Hat Certification)

[James Manning]

> Good advice.  Here's how to overcome the limitation in the last sentence 
> above.  For about $75 you can DIY incorporate as an S-Corp in NC.

I've always wondered - anyone locally done the S-Corp route (esp. in
NC, of course) for a techie(-ish) business and willing to doc it
somewhere or give links to places others have doc'd it?

Generic "how to make an S-Corp in NC" isn't bad, but the sec. of state
web site covers that ok - I'm mainly thinking that
software/consulting/etc. kinds of gigs have a lot of similarities to
each other (dun and bradstreet categories, accounting places or people
in the triangle that are very familiar with that kind of business and
have many such clients, etc).

Just seems like a good number of the trilug people have gone this
route, and it sounds like something trilug is as good a place as any
for organizing the content and developing a "best practices" thing.
CED and other kinds of things exist as well, of course, but I'm less
interested in the "formulate a business plan doc and practice pitching
it to VC's" than the "here's the best/easiest way to set up your
accounting for the cases of 1) doing it yourself and 2) finding an
inexpensive accountant to help you out".

Hell, while we're on the subject, anyone wanna recommend tax
preparation?  I've done my own in the past and would say I'm very
familiar with tax law, but it's one of those things where I think I'm
gonna be lazy next year and let someone else do it if it's cheap
enough :)

Thanks!
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