Crossing a state line to do business can have a profound impact on your company. You have to find out:

• if you must register as a foreign (out-of-state) company
• how much state income and sales tax you must pay or collect
• where your company must travel to defend a lawsuit
• and much more

How to Do Business Outside Your State provides answers to common questions that you may have about doing business across state lines. It provides useful information for corporations and limited liability companies that:

• organize in one state but have their principal location in another
• organize in one state but are located near the borders of other states in which they conduct business
• organize in one state but plan to expand nationally (or regionally) to sell products or services
• conduct much of their business over the Internet, mail or phone

Operating system: Windows- and Macintosh-compatible. The computer you use to purchase an eGuide must be the same computer you will download it to. (For example, don't purchase the eGuide using your computer at work if you intend to download it later on to your home computer; instead, wait until you're on the computer you intend to download the eGuide to and then make your purchase. After you've downloaded the file, you will be able to "transfer" it to another computer by copying it to external media or by email.) In addition, you will not be able to download this file if:

• cookies are disabled on your computer, or
• a firewall prevents you from downloading files from the Internet.

Software: Before you can use an eGuide, additional software must be installed:
To expand the ZIP archive you download after making your purchase, you'll need:

• A decompression utility such as the following, both of which can be downloaded for free:

• 7-Zip (http://www.7-zip.org) (for Windows users).
• StuffIt Expander (http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/stuffit/expander.html) (for Macintosh). Please note: Many recently manufactured Macs have a native capability to decompress zip files. See your computer's user manual for verification of this and instructions for access.

To open, read and print an eGuide, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or greater, or another program that "reads" PDF (portable document format) files. (Download Adobe Reader for free from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)