Legal Question in Business Law in Colorado

Capital contributions, loans and documentation of corporate transactions

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Dear LawGuru User:

You are obviously well informed and cautious.

Repayment of a loan is not a shareholder dividend. Distinguishing loans from contributions is a function of truth and record keeping. If your funds are truly a loan and you document the loan using a promissory note and repayment schedule, then it is a loan.

If your funds are a capital contribution, shares should be issued to you in return. If no shares are issued, and the loan is not documented, the IRS and others may conclude that you do not have a corporation, that you are co-mingling personal and corporate assets, and that the "corporate veil" should be removed, making the shareholder(s) liable for corporate obligations.

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