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McGeehan Law

Misleading Solicitations for Corporate Annual Minutes

10/4/2015

 
One or more companies have sent to Virginia companies, including our clients misleading forms.  The companies are called “Virginia Council for Corporation”, “Corporate Records Service” and “Annual Business Services” and the forms are titled “2015 Annual Minutes” and “2015 Annual Records Solicitation Form”.  The Solicitation Form looks somewhat like the annual report form prescribed by the State Corporation Commission and mailed to corporations of record in the Clerk’s Office of the SCC.  Some corporations have confused the Solicitation Form for the Commission-prescribed annual report and sent money to these companies believing they have legally complied.   In the case of LLCs, legally, the form is wrong.

A search of the Commission’s business entity records in the Clerk’s Office revealed no information about a company with the name Virginia Council for Corporation”, “Corporate Records Service” and “Annual Business Services” or that they are authorized to do business in Virginia although they have a Richmond address.

These enterprises are commercial solicitations and they do not comply with state requirements.  The companies do not file an annual form with the state or pay the annual fee to the state. 

If you are in the McGeehan Pascale, PLC’s  Priority Business Client Program℠ and we are your registered agent, we receive and review the official state form and send it to you with instructions on filing it and paying the annual fee.  If we are not your registered agent, you will receive an official form from the state, but call us if there is a question whether it is a legal form.  We have looked into legal action for clients who believe they have been defrauded.  The cleverness of the form makes that difficult to prove fraud. But, if you have other questions go to https://www.scc.virginia.gov or http://www.oag.state.va.us to make a complaint.

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    John P. McGeehan is the managing member of McGeehan Pascale, PLC. His practice focuses on business structures, especially new, emerging, small businesses and not for profit organizations, all business transactions, employment law, real estate, commercial leasing, estate planning and litigation before administrative agencies and all courts.

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