DBA BUSINESS NAME?
ALSO CALLED A FICITIOUS BUSINESS NAME, ASSUMED BUSINESS
NAME, TRADE NAME AND DOING BUSINESS AS DBA
DO I NEED A DBA BUSINESS NAME REGISTRATION FOR MY OWN SMALL BUSINESS?
Do you have a trade name? A trade business name also called a DBA ( Doing
Business As), is the name under which you do business. For example, your legal
name is Cheryl Burke and you are a professional dancer. You win at Dancing with
the Stars, star in Beverly Hills 90210, and eventually work with Wayne Newton.
You decide you are good enough to open a dance school and call it "Dancing with
Cheryl".
 Legal
Business Licensing Requirements
- Starting a Business Licenses, Tax Ids & form LLC, Incorporation,
Partnership or Sole Proprietorship
Even though your first name, "Cheryl" is in the Trade name "Dancing with
Cheryl," you need to register it because it is a fictitious business name. It is
fictitious because before you though of it, the name did not exist thus it is
not a legal name as your own first and last name.
Because it is a fictitious business name and you use it as a DBA, i.e., you are
Cheryl Burke and you are using "Dancing with Cheryl," as your assumed business
name, in effect you assumed the name and you are now using it to do business as
( DBA) "Dancing with Cheryl," name.
Since you have assumed a fictitious business name, you need to register it. That
means you need to register it with the appropriate government registration
agency and in most cases, notarize it and publish it in a legally adjudicated
newspaper authorized to publish a fictitious business name.
The publication of a ficitious business name is usually done for 4 weeks. Most
legal newspapers that publish assumed dba names, charge around $50 to $150
dollars and will publish it normally, once a week for 4 weeks. Subsequently, you
need to file a proof of publication with the government clerk agency and that
means that you have published the notarized and registered dba fictitious trade
name with the appropriate government official office that registers the business
names to be used as dba doing business as.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME EXAMPLES
If you need to notarize the dba, we send you our representantive notary to do
that at your place of business or your home office in addition that we pay and
register the name and pay the notarization fees and filing fees. Then, we
publish and pay the publication fee and pay and file proof of publication of the
dba in a legal newspaper.
Thus, as described above, if you are starting a business and you are wondering
how to get a dba,
keep in mind that you are required to obtain a DBA Business Name. Also, keep in
mind that if your business name does not include your last/family/ name or if
you incorporated or formed an LLC but you do business in a name different from
the llc or corporation name, you need to get a dba business name certificate.
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What if I do not have a DBA Business Name?
You can use your own name but most states require a DBA Business Name.
In California, if you don't use your last name to do business, and
most other states, you are require to have a DBA Business Name before you
start your business and there is a fine or in some states, may be a
misdemeanor not to have it.
I have a DBA Business Name , but where do I find a DBA Business Name Form?
If you purchase our service, we provide it. You can download forms
from a website but it normally comes with the DBA Business Name package we
provide with our filing of the DBA Business Name service.
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