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Register online
- Visit the Secretary of State’s online services page.
- Create a user account.
- Select “create or register a business”. Select “I am creating a new domestic business” and choose your desired domestic corporation: domestic profit, domestic professional, or domestic nonprofit.
- Fill out the required information about your business entity (listed above).
- Pay the $100 filing fee by approved credit card: Visa, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover.
Processing Time: 7 business days; registrations can be expedited for an additional fee. Processing in 2 business days costs an additional $100. Processing in the same business day (if submitted before noon on a weekday) costs an additional $250.
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Register by mail
- Draft your Articles of Incorporation. A sample Articles of Incorporation may be viewed in the document Filing Procedure - Corporation.
- Download and fill out the Transmittal Form - Corporation (CD 227) from the Georgia Secretary of State website.
- Mail the completed articles of organization, transmittal form, and $110 filing fee by check or money order to:
Office of Secretary of State
Corporations Division
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SE
Suite 313 West Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Processing Time: 15 business days; Processing in 2 business days costs an additional $100. Processing in the same business day (if submitted before noon on a weekday) costs an additional $250. Processing in one hour costs an additional $1,000.
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Register in person
- Draft your own Articles of Incorporation. A sample Articles of Incorporation may be viewed in the document Filing Procedure - Corporation.
- Download and fill out the Transmittal Form - Corporation (CD 227) from the Georgia Secretary of State website.
- Submit the completed Articles of Organization, transmittal, form, and $110 filing fee to the Secretary of State's Corporations Division.
Office of Secretary of State
Corporations Division
2 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SE
Suite 313 West Tower
Atlanta, Georgia 30334
Hours: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday (except state holidays)
Response Time: Varies; Processing in 2 business days costs an additional $100. Processing in the same business day (if submitted before noon on a weekday) costs an additional $250. Processing in one hour costs an additional $1,000.
Register a Corporation
A corporation is a type of business entity that has limited liability and is separate from its owners, the shareholders.
A corporation is composed of three different groups: shareholders (or members, in a nonprofit corporation), directors, and officers. Debts taken on by the corporation generally cannot be collected from the shareholders, directors, or officers.. For-profit corporations pay tax on earned income and shareholders pay tax on dividends received. Certain smaller corporations may also elect with the Internal Revenue Service to be an S-Corporation, which is taxed more like a partnership.