Who must file a DBA in Nevada?
- An individual is engaged to start a business in Navada under own name and using a business name to advertise, must register FFN or Fictitious Firm Name in nevada.
- Every person doing business in the state of Nevada under an assumed or fictitious name that is different from the legal name.
- Each person who owns an interest in the business must file with the Clark County Clerk of each county in which the business is being conducted a certificate containing the information required by the Nevada Revised Statute.
- The filing of a fictitious firm name does not give exclusive rights to the use of that name.
- An FFN filing is also required by the Business License office before issuing a business license under a fictitious name.
- A person doing business in this state without complying with the requirements of this chapter or having falsely filed a certificate of termination is guilty of a misdemeanor.
How to file an Assumed Name in Clark County Navada?
- Check the business name availability to ensure the name you are going to submit is available. You can send a request using InfoTaxSquare.com free business name search online form.
- Owner must sign (corporate officer if corporation; manager or officer if limited liability company; general partner if partnership; trustee if trust).
- Street address of principal place of business and county must be listed (corporation/limited liability companies must include address as set out in its articles of incorporation on file with the Secretary of State and the state of incorporation/organization).
- All owners and their residence addresses must be listed.
- All assumed name applications must be signed and notarized by the owners.
- County Clerks of Clark County are responsible for determining the acceptability, not the legal sufficiency of all documents presented for filing.
- Processing time-You can check the estimated time to file your dba license on InfoTaxSquare.com site.
- Each individual business name must have a separate filing.
- Multiple fictitious names cannot be included on a single certificate
- The expiration date of the Fictitious Business Name expire after five years from the date of filing
- No person may adopt a fictitious name if it contains Corp, LLC, BT, PC Prof, Assn and many more. We suggest you to check before filing it.
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You must submit an original form with signatures which we will keep for our records.
