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Tables of Contents for The Nevada Advantage
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
13
1
Preface
14
4
SECTION I The Whys
The Personal Sovereignty Paradigm
The Purpose
18
1
Preamble
18
1
Nation States
18
2
Political Change is Inevitable
20
1
The Freedom Ideology
21
2
Government's Challenge
23
1
Freedom Verses Chaos
24
1
The Underlying Force
25
1
Look Around
26
1
Claiming Autonomy
27
1
Legal Documents & Video
27
1
Why Nevada
27
2
The Privacy Factor
Freedom Requires Privacy
29
1
Nothing to Hide
30
1
Privacy is Paramount
30
1
Phone Records Are Not Sacred
31
1
Technology's Expanding Effect
31
2
Internet Detectives
33
1
Legislative Protection
34
1
Legislation Ripe for Abuse
35
1
Echelon
35
1
Carnivore
36
1
Computer Scanning
36
2
The Clipper Chip
38
1
Privacy and Government Needs
39
1
The Crux of the Privacy Problem
40
1
Violence and Privacy
41
1
Progress
42
1
In Summary
43
3
The Litigation Explosion
The Problem
46
1
The Threat To Business
46
1
Funding Government Through Litigation
46
2
America The Litigators
48
1
A Legal Joint Venture
48
2
Countersuits
50
1
City Governments Join the Fray
51
2
Can This Be True?
53
1
The Future
54
1
Facing The Legal Reality
55
2
Conclusion
57
1
Concerns Over Government
Government Expansion
58
1
Equal Rights
58
1
Justice for All
59
1
Non-Violent Crime
60
1
Forfeitures and Seizures
61
1
Regulation Through Litigation
62
1
National ID verses National Security
62
3
Speaking of Social Security
65
1
Tax Shelter America
66
2
Money Laundering
68
1
The Real Issue
68
1
Tax Competition
69
1
Predictions
69
2
Offshore Tax Havens
71
1
Corporate Structuring
72
4
SECTION II Business Structures
Forms of Doing Business
Preamble
76
1
Sole Proprietorship
76
1
General Partnership
77
1
Limited Partnership
78
1
The Limited Liability Company
78
1
Corporations
79
1
Corporate Structure
80
1
Articles of Incorporation
81
1
Corporate Name
81
1
Period of Existence
81
1
The Corporate Purpose
82
1
Authorized Shares
82
1
Classes of Stock
83
1
General Provisions
83
1
Bylaws
83
1
The Players in the Corporation
84
1
Corporate Formalities
85
3
Piercing the Corporate Veil
88
1
Failure to Keep the Corporation in Good Standing
89
1
Failure to Sign Documents in the Corporate Fashion
89
1
Failure to Identify the Business as a Corporation
90
1
Operate Related Corporations Autonomously
90
1
Rowland v. Lapire
91
1
Trident Construction v.West Electric, Inc.
92
1
Wyatt v. Bowers
93
1
Polaris Industrial Corporation v.Kaplan
94
2
Acts of the Corporation
Acts of the Corporation
96
1
Documenting With Resolutions
96
1
When to Use Resolutions
97
1
How to Draft Resolutions
98
1
The Core of the Resolution
99
1
Where Resolutions are Appropriate
100
1
Organization
101
1
Ratification of Pre-Incorporation Actions
102
1
Reimbursement of Costs of Incorporating
103
1
Ratification of Resident Agent
103
1
Adoption of the Bylaws
103
1
Adoption of a Corporate Seal
103
1
Adoption of Stock Certificates
103
1
Authorization of Required Filings
104
1
Election of Officers
104
1
Who Should Serve
104
1
Adopt a Fiscal Year
105
1
Issuance of Stock
106
1
Types of Consideration
106
1
Issuance of the Stock
107
1
Changes of the Guard
107
1
Officers
108
2
Directors
110
1
Salaries
111
1
Purchasing
111
1
Establishing a Principal Place of Business
112
1
Financing
113
1
A Classic U.S. Strategy
The Private Corporation
114
1
Overview
114
1
Rearranging Your Finances
115
1
Asset Protection Characteristics
116
1
Filing Liens
117
1
More About Nevada
117
1
A Simple Example
118
1
The Privacy Application
119
1
Corporate Headquarters Providers
119
1
Other Advantages
120
1
Federal Taxes and Your Personal Strategy
121
2
Asset Transfer Complications
Overview
123
1
Intent May Not Be Necessary
124
1
Statute of Elizabeth Jurisdictions
124
2
Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance
126
1
Intent
127
1
Badges of Fraud
128
1
Constructive Fraud
128
2
An Example
130
1
Fair Consideration
130
1
Affirmative Defenses
131
1
Good Faith Buyer
131
1
Inadequate Consideration
132
1
Issues Checklist
132
6
SECTION III The How's
Asset Protection: Analysis of a Strategy
A Sad Tale
138
1
The Legal Reality
139
2
A Lawsuit's Merit
141
1
What Asset Protection Is Not
142
1
The Morality Issue
142
1
A Quick Sketch
143
1
Don't Be a Target
143
1
Incorporating for Asset Protection
144
1
Poverty, The Road to Asset Protection
145
1
Being Judgment Proof
146
1
The UCC-1 Concept
147
1
The Strategy Summary
148
1
Demand Promissory Note
149
1
Case Studies & Tax Reduction
Case Study #1
150
1
Case Study #2
151
1
Case Study #3
152
1
Case Study #4
153
1
Case Study #5
154
1
Tax Savings Through Incorporation
155
1
Medical Reimbursement Plans
155
2
Section 1244 Stock
157
1
Stock Dividends in a Corporation
158
1
Start-Up Expenses
159
2
Avoiding Double Taxation
161
3
Taking Money Out of Your Corporation
Get The Money
164
1
Tax Savings Through Family Employment
165
2
Expense Reimbursements
167
1
Travel Expenses
168
1
Auto Loan Interest Deductible
169
1
Deducting the Cost of Living
170
1
Three Tests for Deductibility of Living Expenses
170
1
Four Tests of Deductibility of Meals
171
1
Commuting to Temporary Work Sites
171
1
Here's to Your Good Health!
171
1
Research and Experimentation
172
1
Taxation and Multiple Corporations
Tax Advantages of Multiple Corporation
173
2
Tax Planning with Multiple Corporations
175
1
Parent-Subsidiary Controlled Group
175
1
Brother-Sister Controlled Group
176
1
Stock Attribution Rules for a Brother-Sister Controlled Group
176
1
Disadvantages of a Controlled Group
176
1
Examples of a Brother-Sister Controlled Group
177
1
Doing Business At Arms Length
178
1
Section 482 verses Warbucks/Red, Inc.
179
1
S-Corporations
179
5
No Profit Benefits
184
2
Social Security (FICA) Taxes and the S-Corporation
186
1
Retirement, Social Security and Your Nevada Corporation
187
1
Personal Service Corporations
188
1
Tips About PSC Status
189
1
Personal Holding Company
190
1
Personal Holding Income
190
1
Disadvantages of Personal Holding Company Status
191
1
Is There a Way Out of PHC Status
191
1
Tips to Avoid PHC Status
192
1
Foreign National's
193
1
Non-U.S. Citizens Welcome in Nevada
193
1
Additional Benefits of a Nevada Corporation
194
1
Visa Enhancement
194
2
Alternative Considerations
Business Verses Personal Protection
196
1
Protecting Mental Property
197
1
Is Warbucks a Real Corporation
198
1
Validations
199
1
Initial Officers and Directors
199
2
Using Assets as Capital Contributions Without Owning Stock
201
1
Asset Protection for Licensed Professionals
202
1
Using Lines of Credit
202
1
Re-domiciling the Corporation
203
3
SECTION IV Corporate Formalities & Forms
Forms, Minutes, Resolutions, Notes Agreements and Contracts
Why Forms
206
1
Working with Forms
207
1
Corporate Formalities
207
1
Alter Ego
207
2
Pre-Incorporation
209
6
Acceptance and Resignations
215
3
Notice of Meetings and Waivers
218
1
Notices Can Be Waived
218
8
Minutes of Meetings
226
1
Stockholders' Meeting
226
1
Directors' Meeting
227
12
Stock Restrictions and Resolutions
239
1
Restrictions and Options
239
1
Right of First Refusal by Corporation
240
1
Corporation Option, Conditions on Sale or Transfer of Stock
240
1
Right of First Refusal
241
1
Resolutions
241
37
Proxy
278
3
Certified Copy of Corporate Resolution
281
5
Promissory Notes
286
6
Security Agreements and Deeds of Trust
292
15
Contracts with Independent Contractors
307
3
Corporate Changes of the Guard
310
24
SECTION V - Appendices
Introduction
334
1
Why Nevada Corporations
335
2
Advantages of the LLC
337
7
State Income Tax Review
344
2
The Birth of a Nation
346
14
Facts About Nevada
360
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