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Starting a business: Registered without the expensive surprises

Forming the company is the easy part. What catches people out is that registering with the state does not register you with your parish, and the parish is where most of the tax actually lives.

What Kelsi does

• Works out whether you need an entity yet at all, and which one fits what you are actually doing
• Explains what registering with the state does not cover, so the parish is not a bill that arrives later
• Talks through the options, from filing it yourself to having it handled, and what each one costs you

What Bizer does about it

• Walks the sequence in order, with what each step costs and which office you are dealing with
• Names the registrations people miss, including the parish collector and the occupational licence
• Keeps the current fee schedule, with the date it was checked

How the work goes

1. Work out the structure and check the name is free
2. File with the Secretary of State and get an EIN
3. Register with the state and, separately, with your parish
4. Get the licences your address and trade require

Terrebonne, Lafourche and Assumption — the rates on Kelsi's patch

8 taxing jurisdictions across 3 parishes, each with the column you file it under. Louisiana has 452 across 63.

The rate follows the job, not your office. Every parish in the state.

Talk to Kelsi

Kelsi Guidry is your Bizer advisor in Houma, LA. The first conversation is free. Get in touch.