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hi this is James with Northwest registered agent and today we have Katarina with us Katarina thank you for being here today thank you so much for having me today we're going to be talking about changing the name of your California LLC we'll talk about what steps you need to take to make this change so Katarina I received a question from a client they'd like to change the name of their California LLC why should I tell them yeah that is a great question so we're absolutely happy to help them throughout this process there are a couple things to keep in mind and check on before they begin the filing process first thing is to search the California Secretary of State business search this will help them figure out whether or not the company name is available secondly is to make sure that they follow California's naming rules such as using the term LLC in some kind of way in the entity name and making sure they are not using terms that are reserved for corporations such as Inc or incorporated or anything involving a financial company or Insurance such as trust so once they've made sure the name will work what should they do next yeah so they will want to file a certificate of amendment with the California Secretary of State they can file online by mail or in person and Northwest registered agent is is happy to help them with this process awesome how much is all this going to cost it costs about thirty dollars but if they file in person there is an additional 15 handling fee they can check the current processing times on the California Secretary of State website and they can expedite the filing online great once the name is updated is there anything else they need to do yes so they will want to update the IRS and the form that they use is determined by how their business is taxed okay great thanks so today we learned that you will need to check the California business search to make sure that the new name you want is available you will also need to follow all naming rules such as including LLC in your name we also learned that you will need to file a certificate of amendment with the California Secretary of State to make the change you can file in person by mail or online and the filing costs about thirty dollars finally we learned that you will need to update the IRS about the name change the form you file will be determined by how you are taxed Katarina thank you so much for being here today and answering my questions of course I'm happy if you have a question leave it in the comments State paperwork is hard we can help if you found this video helpful give it a like we left links in the description to the websites we discussed and picked out two other videos you may find useful you need tools to build something big subscribe now
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- Federico Correira, Staff Member
hey this is attorney elizabeth potts weinstein and today we're going to talk about how to change the name on your california llc it's also the same way to change your name on your california corporation so let's say you've decided you're going to use a different name for your business now you could just take your california llc or corporation and do a dba for that new trade name but maybe it makes sense in this situation to actually change the name the legal name of your llc corporation because you know the old name doesn't apply at all you're going a completely different direction different people are owning the business who knows how do you actually do that well how you do that is by amending your business in the new california biz file system so let's go into the business file system and you can look at how you're going to actually make those changes so the first thing you need to do is actually go to the biz file system which is this file online.sos.ca.gov when you get here and if you've already logged in before it might actually kick you straight to the login screen if not if you never create a login you're going to need to do that so you just go into the login hit the button in the top right corner and you have the ability to sign up for an account you put in your email password first last name that's all you need to get an account i obviously already have one so i'm gonna go ahead and sign in the next thing you need to do is have access to your corporation or llc in biz file now if you've created your lca corporation in the last few months in 2022 that's already in the biz file system and if you filed it online yourself in the last few years it will also already be converted over to the new system but if you filed on paper way before that or if you hired an attorney or one of these online filing services to file it for you you're going to need to get access to your file on biz file and how you'll do that is i'll show you the link and how you're going to request access so the first thing you need to do is find your llc or your corporation in here and you're going to do that by hitting the search button and then you're going to search for it and i'm going to search epw small business law now i do want to say i started recording this video a few minutes ago and had to stop it because when i went in here i realized someone had actually filed a statement of information on my corporation and had changed all the address and contact information put their own name in i'm assuming it was a mistake even though i did send them a strongly worded email but this is an important thing to be aware of you're gonna need to check this on a regular basis because while you do have to be logged in to file amendments and terminations and stuff like that sadly as of this day you do not have to be logged in to file statements of information which means somebody else can change the address and all this kind of stuff of your business which is absolutely terrible and a big security hole they need to plug but anyway the first step is to make sure everything's okay with your corporation so you're gonna open it up and look at it make sure no one has changed the stuff fraudulently or mistakenly man to also make sure you are in good standing because you're gonna have trouble filing anything if your standing is all mixed up messed up what i mean by good standing is that the franchise tax board is an upset because you have filed taxes that you followed any statements of information that you need to do which is sos standing etc so yep my corporation looks fine now there's a couple things i want to show you is manage user access so if you don't have access on the back end to your llc or corporation this will look a little bit different it'll just say that you can file statement information which it actually shouldn't but that's a topic for a whole nother day and it'll have i think it has a history and it'll have request user access and that's where you hit a button and then you request user access and whoever has the access will get an email and then they can say yes and i've gotten that from people and then if nobody has online access because you created this corporation 10 years ago and haven't filed anything online which would be weird because you would usually file statements or information online but that's another story anyway then you need to request access and they'll send a letter a postcard or something with a pin number to your mailing address which is hopefully right if the mailing address isn't right if it's old then you're going to file a statement of information to fix that which you may or may not be able to do online and then you do that by paper so it's going to be a bit of a process but let's assume that you have access so then what you're going to do is you're going to file an amendment so there's all kinds of things under here unfortunately they're all called file and amendment even though some of them have aren't filing an amendment so it has amendment conversion termination mergers all kinds of stuff but you're going to do this thing that is currently on the top and hopefully it will still be because it starts with the letter a amendment now it's going to be called amendment california corporation if you have a corporation and it'll be called california llc if you have an llc so you click on that and then you're going to go through multiple screens and the first screen is this is just telling you if what you file isn't confidential etc etc and it has this huge thing that i think the first time you should read i have gotten this many many times so i don't read it anymore this can only be done if you're changing certain things and if your business has already approved it now i have a corporation and so it's a little bit more formal that people have to vote on it and you would if you're changing the name you would have some kind of written documentation for llc's a little bit more informal but i think you should still have something in writing that says that a majority of the members majority of the owners have approved this change it's always good to have a paper trail just in case something comes up later now if you have multiple owners you definitely want to have a paper trail just in case they later say that they didn't agree if it's one owner it's more of a formality but i think it's a really good idea so here this amendment can only be done under certain circumstances here we're just changing the name so a lot of the stuff about shares and all that stuff doesn't apply and it has to be um signed and dated by two corporate officers i am the only officer that exists can only amend the corporate names or the number of shares submitter is going to be my name um i am the human person submitting this who is typing this in so it could be an attorney's assistant is typing it in or paralegal or it could be that your accountant is typing this in the idea is there's some human person who's typing in it so i'd put my name and my contact information you can also put your phone number i don't think they'll ever call you then it's gonna have what your c
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- Federico Correira
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