The Idaho State Tax Commission provides information and assistance with tax related questions. Visit the Idaho Tax Commission's Businesses webpage or call at (208) 334-7660, 1-800-972-7660.

“Tax identification number” is a generic term that can refer to many types of tax accounts or permits, e.g., the Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN).

An EIN number is assigned by the IRS. Visit the IRS web page How to Apply for an EIN.

Profit and Non-Profit Corporations: You file Articles of Incorporation. The Secretary of State's office provides optional forms for articles of incorporation of profit corporations, or the legal document may be drawn up by an attorney or the individuals wishing to form the corporation. If the individuals do not wish to seek the help of an attorney, they may refer to Idaho Code for assistance. See § 30-29-202 for for-profit corporations and § 30-30-202 for non-profit corporations.

If you intend to apply for IRS federal tax exemption as a charitable organization, your articles of incorporation must contain a required purpose clause and a dissolution of assets provision.

Valuable information on 501(c)(3) qualification is on the IRS website, www.irs.gov. It includes sample articles of incorporation. Click the Charities and Nonprofits tab and then scroll down to find the Life Cycle of a Public Charity link.

It is the IRS that grants you “S” status for your corporation. They have a very good web page that explains how to qualify and how to apply. Here is the link.

One of the incorporators listed in the articles needs to sign. There must be at least one incorporator. The incorporators' duties terminate upon filing.

You file a Foreign Registration Statement, a form provided by the Secretary of State's Office. The application must be accompanied by an original certificate of corporate status from the corporation's state of domestication, dated within 90 days of filing, along with the filing fee.

No, the certificate must be an original certificate of status, not certified copies.

No, bylaws are not filed in any public office. They are kept with the corporation's private records.

Write a letter, or file Application for Reservation of Corporate Name Form provided by the Secretary of State's office, requesting the name you would like to reserve. This reserves the name for 4 months.

No, the fee is only applied to the reservation filing. It does not transfer to any other filing that would be done in the future.

Profit and Non-Profit Corporations:
You must file Articles of Amendment. The Secretary of State provides optional forms for Articles of Amendment of profit corporations, or the legal document may be drawn up by an attorney or the individuals wishing to amend the articles. If the individuals do not want to seek the help of an attorney, they need to refer to Idaho Code § 30-29-1006 for profit corporations and Idaho Code § 30-30-705 for non-profit corporations.

No.

Yes, all foreign and domestic corporations must have a registered agent pursuant to Idaho Code § 30-21-402.

The registered agent is the person named to receive service of process on behalf of the corporation if litigation occurs.

A post office box is not accepted as an address for a registered office. The registered agent must be a person or another corporation located at a physical street address in Idaho. A post office box can be used for the mailing address for the corporation.

There are service companies that will act as registered agents for foreign corporations.

No. Stock ownership is not a matter of public record. To find this information you may contact the corporation's secretary or stock record agent. Keep in mind they are not required to disclose this information except to shareholders.

Yes and no. We can search our records and tell you the history of the corporation - whether the company still exists under the same name, has merged, changed it's name, dissolved, etc. If the company is still in existence we can tell you the address we have on file and the most current officers shown on their annual report. We cannot tell you any information on stock value, it is not a part of the information filed with us.

scripophily.net contains information on how to go about researching old stock value. It can give you some idea if your stock certificates have value as collectibles even if they have no value as a stock. Our standard disclaimer applies: (1) www.scripophily.net is a commercial site and our link is not intended to recommend or endorse this particular business, the link is provided for informational purposes only; (2) the contents of www.scripophily.net is under their control and any questions or comments regarding information found on the site should be directed to them; (3) if we become aware of other web sites offering similar information, they may also be linked.

It means the corporation has met the filing requirements for filing an annual report form updating officers and directors. There is no financial information on the report.

It means the corporation involuntarily gave up its right to do business as a corporation because it failed to file the annual report form by the due date.

Yes, but payment must accompany the fax, either by credit card payment or use of a prepaid account. The fax number directly to the Business Entity division is (208) 334-2080.

You will need to file two (2) copies of your document.

We usually have a 7-10 day turn around time, unless an expedite fee is paid. Expedited service is within 8 working hours. Assumed Business Names cannot be expedited.

Yes, if documents are typed or printed legibly it ensures that the information is entered in our system correctly. If we can't read your handwriting your documents may be rejected. Most of our forms are available on our web site as fillable forms. Using Acrobat Reader, you can fill them out on-screen and print them out.