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I've used https://delawareinc.com/ to incorporate several companies over the years, and always had a good experience. Their website looks pretty old-school but it works well and their service is very prompt.

So I wouldn't Stripe controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure – just the flashy stuff (which I'm sure is great too).

(disclaimer: former Stripe employee)

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Yeah, it's not even close. Stripe Atlas is a very small part of the market. It doesn't mean the product isn't good but every year, over a million new businesses that are formed and of those that are incorporated, I'd guess that a very small fragment are incorporated through Stripe Atlas.

Most businesses in the state I live in, as well as the states around me (what someone in SF or NY would call flyover) are handled by a registered agent (trivial, not even in a fee to become an agent in most states, just a valid local address) or the owner.

tbh I still don't understand why anyone bothers paying anyone or anything to do the paperwork, it's not like Federal taxes

Why would you pay someone to do Federal Taxes? Are they difficult to do in the US?

Yeah, few things are as complex for a business in any industry that has ever gotten caught in the nation's political sights. For example, if you provide some sort of VoIP service, there's levels of nested rules that fill books, in part due to the breakup of the Bell System later coming into full contact with the internet. Plenty of carve outs, loops, and all manner of grandfathered elements for everyone.

The only thing more complicated than Federal taxes is environmental regulation. Everything else is simpler.

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