If you wanted to form an entity for the purposes of limiting your personal liability, what is the cheapest Corporation stack available to create and maintain a corporation, year over year?
I've created LLCs in the past but my next company is starting as a C-corporaion just to avoid the tax entanglements since I already need the same tax people either way, so why not take the added advantages and greater protection.
Where you start your LLC matters a lot. E.g. CA is one of the worst - you have to pay minimum tax at founding and then every year: $800+ last time I formed one. NY was far easier - there's a minimum annual but then no minimum tax so no revenue no tax.
Outside of dollar cost, what is involved in doing the paperwork every year?
Even if a corporation or LLC is organized in Delaware or another state, if it does business or has employees in California, it has to register with California and pay the tax, which in some situations is waived for the first year.
Usually the costs for registration of a foreign entity are the same or more, so you pay twice.
If you’re registering a Delaware company for a particular reason, that reason makes cost irrelevant.