What are the legal steps and paperwork that need to be filed for before starting a Business in your state?
I generally recommend consulting and retaining an attorney for matters like these. While some people do this on their own, more often than not they make mistakes along the way that could have been avoided by simply retaining an attorney to counsel them and handle the paperwork, usually for a nominal fee of a few hundred dollars in legal fees plus out of pocket filing fees such as state filing fees. For arguments sake though lets say that you want to incorporate your business which would be what many people starting off a small business as the sole owner would want to do. First pick a name for your corporation and search here to see if it is already taken: https://www.corporations.state.pa.us/cor… Next prepare and file Articles of Incorporation. Form and instructions can be found here: http://www.dos.
