Arizona – The Grand Canyon State Welcomes You by Peter Zillmann from Flickr (Creative Commons License) California is so weird. (I grew up there. I can say that from experience.) It’s a weird state with weird laws. I recently helped a client move their business from California to Arizona. Arizona law allows you to simply transfer your company from your old state to your new one with a Statement of Domestication, if the state you’re leaving permits this. California doesn’t. Instead of it being a simple process, moving a business from California to Arizona is much more complicated, expensive, and time consuming. The easiest way to do it was to form a new company in Arizona and merge it with the California company, where the Arizona company was the surviving entity. Here’s how it’s done: Create a new entity in Arizona through the Arizona Corporation Commission and pay the corresponding filing fee. Create and sign a Merger Agreement. Submit the…
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