| Business Legal Information United States Federal Laws and Regulations. |
| Click on the blue button for a summary of information at the site |
| Websites linked to from this page hopefully will help companies with questions related to federal business-related law, regulations, and compliance issues. |
| Business law – comprehensive sites. |
| Corporate governance. |
| Bankruptcy laws. |
| Court cases. |
| Securities laws. |
| Business/entity structures. |
| Pricing and anti-trust laws. |
| A Management Accounting Information Center article “Four Websites To Access Business Entity Structure and Formation Information” identifies four websites that provide information on business entity structure and formation, their legal and tax attributes, advantages, and disadvantages, and how to go about registering a business entity. Please click the home logo at the top left of this page to access this article. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Federal Regulations This Yahoo Pipes search product allows you to extract federal regulations on subjects you enter in the search box. The product extracts these regulations from recent regulations coming out of the following departments: Treasury, Commerce, Labor, Energy, Transportation, EPA, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve System, Federal Trade Commission, International Trade Commission, and Securities and Exchange Commission. Click here to go to this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open a new window. |
| A Yahoo Pipes Search Product Search Blogs for Business Law Information This Yahoo Pipes product searches several business law blogs for results related to the terms you enter in the box. The purpose of this product is to quickly extract information from a pipe of feeds containing business law information. Click here to go to this Yahoo Pipes product. Right clicking should lead to being able to open a new window. |
| The graph below was created using Google’s Chart Tools.
The graph is presented here to show the relative numbers of business entities in the United States. As shown on the graph, sole proprietorships represent slightly more than 70 % of business entities, followed by S corporations with between 10 and 15 %, and then c corporations, limited liability corporations, general partnerships, and limited partnerships, each with less than 6 %. Data from the Internal Revenue Service tax statistics for 2007 was used to generate the graph. |