California Corporation Maintenance Checklist | Annual Requirements | Tax Help Guy
Complete Guide to Annual Compliance & Requirements
Published: December 3, 2025
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Tax Help Guy
December 3, 2025
California Corporation Maintenance Checklist
Complete Guide to Annual Compliance & Requirements
Welcome to Our Corporate Tax Services!Welcome to Our Corporate Tax Services!
This checklist ensures your California corporation remains in good standing and compliant with all requirements. We're here to make this easy for you.
Task Deadline Who Handles Cost Corporate Tax Return March 15* Us $350-$800 $800 Franchise Tax April 15 You (we remind) $800 Statement of Information Your filing month Us $25 Annual Meeting Once per year You (we can document) $100 (optional) Bookkeeping Monthly You (we train) Free trainingTask Deadline Who Handles Cost
Task Deadline Who Handles Cost
Task
Deadline
Who Handles
Cost
Corporate Tax Return March 15* Us $350-$800 $800 Franchise Tax April 15 You (we remind) $800 Statement of Information Your filing month Us $25 Annual Meeting Once per year You (we can document) $100 (optional) Bookkeeping Monthly You (we train) Free training
Corporate Tax Return March 15* Us $350-$800
Corporate Tax Return
March 15*
Us
$350-$800
$800 Franchise Tax April 15 You (we remind) $800
$800 Franchise Tax
April 15
You (we remind)
$800
Statement of Information Your filing month Us $25
Statement of Information
Your filing month
Us
$25
Annual Meeting Once per year You (we can document) $100 (optional)
Annual Meeting
Once per year
You (we can document)
$100 (optional)
Bookkeeping Monthly You (we train) Free training
Bookkeeping
Monthly
You (we train)
Free training
*For calendar year corporations*For calendar year corporations
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Anyone
may
arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose
that
pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's
taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging
affairs
as
to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right,
for
nobody
owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
Judge Learned Hand
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Gregory v. Helvering, 69 F
