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  2. List of legal entity types by country - Wikipedia

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    Limited by Guarantee (Ltd./Gte.): a company limited by guarantee (non-profit company) Unlimited (ULtd.): A company with a share capital, similar to its limited company (Ltd., or PLC.) counterparts, but where the liability of the members or shareholders is not limited; Limited Liability Partnership (LLP): Only allowed in the state of Lagos, Nigeria.

  3. Sole proprietorship - Wikipedia

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    A sole proprietorship, also known as a sole tradership, individual entrepreneurship or proprietorship, is a type of enterprise owned and run by only one person and in which there is no legal distinction between the owner and the business entity. [1] A sole trader does not necessarily work alone and may employ other people. [2]

  4. Business ownership within England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Sole traders and partnerships have to pay tax even if they do not take money out of the organisation. This can be overcome by becoming a limited company however the paperwork is more extensive; limited companies are able to do this because corporation tax rates are much lower than income tax rates.

  5. Unincorporated entity - Wikipedia

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    The most common and traditional unincorporated entities are sole traders, partnerships, and trustees of trusts. Modern unincorporated entities include limited partnerships (but not incorporated limited partnerships), limited liability partnerships (but not UK Limited Liability Partnerships, which are corporations), Limited liability limited partnerships, and limited liability companies.

  6. Small business - Wikipedia

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    Small businesses in the Central Zone of São Paulo. Researchers and analysts of small or owner-managed businesses generally behave as if nominal organizational forms (e.g., partnership, sole-trader, or corporation), and the consequent legal and accounting boundaries of owner-managed firms are consistently meaningful.

  7. Self-employment - Wikipedia

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    Self-employment provides work primarily for the founder of the business. The term entrepreneurship refers to all new businesses, including self-employment and businesses that never intend to grow big or become registered, but the term startup refers to new businesses that intend to provide work and income for more than the founders and intend to have employees and grow large.

  8. Limited company - Wikipedia

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    A private limited company is a limited company incorporated under the Companies Act 2013 (or one of its predecessor acts), with a minimum paid-up share capital (if any) of ₹ 1 lakh (US$1,200), with an article that restricts the transfer of its shares; it may have between two and two hundred members, and its name ends with "Private Limited ...

  9. Corporation - Wikipedia

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    Limited liability separates control of a company from ownership and means that a passive shareholder in a corporation will not be personally liable either for contractually agreed obligations of the corporation, or for torts (involuntary harms) committed by the corporation against a third party (acts done by the controllers of the corporation).