| | 0.4.4: Corporation Versus Limited Liability Company - Encyclopedia - Library - VC Experts |
 | | There are a number of alternatives not discussed in this text, including general and limited partnerships, business trusts, sole proprietorships, etc. In the final analysis, the choice of entity usually comes down to an election between a corporation, whether S corporation or C corporation, and a limited liability company. |
 | | The founder and the investors want to be able to arrange the split between them of calls on the company's future income (in the person of shares of capital stock or interests in limited liability company profits) without worrying about the consequences of that allocation as a taxable event to either party. |
 | | In a limited liability company, interests in profits can be allocated and reallocated more or less as the parties agree, without regard to the respective contributions of capital. |
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