File DBA

File DBA

File Your DBA with American Corporation Service – a quick, easy, and economical path to business recognition and business privileges. A registration for DBA (doing business as,) permits a business to operate under a fictitious name and is the simplest, least costly structure for formal business recognition. In some areas, DBA filing is not required when the business name is the owner’s legal name combined with a description of the service, such as Mike Moran Pool Service. While DBA benefits are well worth the low registration costs, it is important to remember that this business structure offers no protection from personal liability.

Complete our simple Information form and ACS will file for recognition by the appropriate government agency. As necessary, the application will be monitored. Optionally, ACS will publish public notice when required by the issuing government office, in most cases, the county level. DBA registration will be recognized by certificate.

DBA Overview

A registration for DBA,(doing business as) any name that is not your own is required for the protection of customers and clients. However, it is also important and convenient to the person or persons doing business, even though it does not offer the liability protection that is obtained with formation of a corporation or a limited liability corporation.

For instance, if a decorator named Susan Clifton wished to call her business Modern Décor, she must register that name, usually with the county. With a registered DBA she would still be personally liable for any errors or damages resulting from her work. Her business assets would also be at risk if she incurred any personal liabilities, even though they might have nothing to do with her business. In other words, as far as liability is concerned, operating a business as a DBA is no different than operating as an ordinary proprietorship. However, when Susan Clifton conducts here business as Modern Décor, she has the image that a business name endows. She also has the right to open a bank account, to establish supplier accounts, to collect money and to pay bills, all under her business name, Modern Décor.

Doing business under a fictitious name is not limited to an individually owned business. In many states, a corporation or a limited liability corporation may expand business activities by creating separate business units with DBA names, without having to expend the considerably greater time and financial costs of creating a new corporation or limited liability company.

Attorneys Corporation Services DBA Information Form