(Might as well go for some kind of personal posts-per-day record while I have things on my mind...)
I neglected to think one particular detail through when I registered Green Eclipse as a company in the state of Washington: taxes. Taxes aren't even just yearly for companies; I think that the best I can hope for (reporting frequency is based on how much business I do) is doing my taxes quarterly. Unlike doing federal taxes, which always involves a couple minutes in TurboTax and then a big check being sent to me, writing page after page of "$0.00" is probably going to get old quickly. (I think I read something about being able to fill out a "form of no activity" or something after my first time, though. I'll look into that.)
Why did I register Green Eclipse? A sense of legitimacy. Someday soon I'm going to get a digital signature that proves that Green Eclipse is my legal alias, which I can use to maybe make downloading my software from the internet a little less scary.
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A company operating in one state can be registered in another state and be legitimate. Many US companies are Delaware corporations since they have the most user friendly tax code.
Yep; I believe that Microsoft was a Delaware company for a few years.
I'm not sure if that applies to non-corporations, though. I didn't really check. It doesn't matter that much to me, since I'll have about 0 income and therefore about 0 taxes.
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