Register a company in Texas, the operating giant.

Operating in Texas - Texas: the courts are new but yours, the franchise tax rounds to zero for most, and the economy is the point. Raising venture capital - still Delaware: investors' lawyers read two centuries of Chancery, not two years of a new bench. Founder-controlled and tired of Delaware - the Tesla route exists precisely for you. We ask what you are building, then answer.

Below $2.47 million of annual revenue you owe nothing - and since 2024 the No-Tax-Due filing itself was abolished, leaving a simple information report. Above the threshold the tax runs 0.375% for retail and wholesale, 0.75% for everything else, computed on a margin, not gross. For most small and midsize companies Texas is effectively a zero-fee state.

No annual report fee, no licence fee - the formation filing is one-time, and the yearly obligation is the free franchise/information report. Among serious states only Texas offers that. Your real recurring costs are the agent and the accounting, which is true everywhere.

Among America's highest - effective commercial rates around two percent and up, because the state funds itself on land instead of income. If you rent an office and sell services, you barely notice. If you plan warehouses or plants, we model it before the zero-income-tax headline seduces anyone.

Better than 2021, not yet boring. ERCOT is isolated by design, reforms and batteries have thickened reserves, and data centres keep choosing Texas anyway. Serious operations still spec backup power - in Texas as a hedge, not as a lifestyle.

A serious bet: dedicated commercial judges since 2024, a new appellate court above them, and legislation written to welcome Delaware's refugees. What they lack is precedent - two years of rulings against two centuries. For operators the trade usually pays; for VC paper it doesn't yet. We say which side you're on.

Laredo is America's busiest inland port, and the nearshoring wave crosses there: a Texas entity plus a Mexican maquiladora is the classic structure, with the border rail and USMCA doing the heavy lifting. We build both sides of that pair.

Identically to every state: non-resident owner, no US-source effectively connected income - no federal tax on the LLC, with the same home-country asterisks. But most people choose Texas to operate, and operating is exactly what ends the corridor. Paper-only holdings usually belong in Wyoming.

When your out-of-state entity actually does business in Texas - office, staff, projects. The registration costs $750 in state fees and takes days; skipping it costs penalties and standing in Texas courts. We file it alongside the operating setup.

From $2,400 for the entity with agent, EIN and documents; from $4,400 with banking. The state files in days; the EIN takes two to eight weeks without an SSN; banking one to four weeks more. Renewal from $500/year - with no state annual fee inside it.