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How Do I Keep Personal and Corporate Matters Separate?

By AllBusiness Editorial, AllBusiness.com,

After you have incorporated your business, it must remain financially and legally separate from any of its shareholders in order to preserve the benefits and protections of corporate legal status.

Maintain healthy business procedures like:

keeping specific records and accounts
filing necessary government documents
holding regular shareholder meetings
getting written consents or waivers from directors and shareholders

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