Wealth Taxes: How to Move Your Company to a New State... and Hopefully Avoid Them!

How business owners are transferring their companies out of California [step-by-step]

Attorney and and CPA Chad D. Cummings examines Texas’s historic overtaking of California in Fortune 500 headquarters in this presentation. For the first time, Texas leads California 57 to 56 on the 2026 Fortune 500 list, a reversal driven by companies including ExxonMobil, Chevron, Samsung Electronics America, SpaceX, and X relocating their headquarters or legal incorporation to Texas. Texas corporations now generate more revenue as well, and the gap is expected to widen as California’s high-tax environment and proposed wealth tax continue to drive capital and talent out of the state. California ranks 48th on the Tax Foundation’s 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index with a 13.3 percent top individual income tax rate, while Texas ranks 7th and imposes no individual income tax. This presentation shows how redomestication allows business owners to transfer their company’s legal domicile out of California [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/] without dissolving the entity, without creating a new company, and on a completely tax-free basis while preserving the same FEIN, contracts, credit history, and bank accounts. If you own a business still domiciled in California or another high-tax state, the direction of headquarters migration is clear. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/ [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/]

Transferring a company (LLC or corporation) out of Illinois [step-by-step]

Attorney and CPA Chad D. Cummings examines the Chicago Bears’ decision to leave Illinois after 106 years in this presentation. The franchise’s Board of Directors voted to pursue a new stadium in Hammond, Indiana, after years of failed negotiations with Illinois over public funding, while Indiana passed a funding bill in less than 60 days. Illinois ranks 38th on the Tax Foundation’s 2026 State Tax Competitiveness Index with the third-highest corporate tax rate in the country, the highest property taxes in the nation, a pension system funded at only 52 percent, and a proposed constitutional surtax that would raise the top individual rate to 7.95 percent. Indiana ranks 10th with significantly lower rates and a more competitive environment. This presentation shows how the same competitive dynamics driving the Bears, Samsung, Dell, ExxonMobil, and Tesla out of high-tax states apply to every business owner, and how redomestication allows Illinois companies to transfer to another state [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-illinois/] without dissolving the entity, without creating a new company, and on a completely tax-free basis while preserving the same FEIN, contracts, credit history, and bank accounts. If the Bears could not justify remaining in Illinois, the question for every other Illinois business owner is what is keeping you. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-illinois/ [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-illinois/]

Wealth Taxes: How to Move Your Company to a New State... and Hopefully Avoid Them!

Attorney and CPA Chad D. Cummings examines the nationwide push for state wealth taxes and the clear lessons from Europe in this presentation. Tax Foundation president and CEO Daniel Bunn’s recent op-ed in The Hill surveys the growing movement across California, Washington, Rhode Island, Virginia, Michigan, and other states, concluding that these taxes will fail for the same reasons they failed abroad. Of the twelve OECD countries that imposed wealth taxes in 1996, nine have repealed them after capital flight, administrative complexity, and far lower revenue than projected. This presentation explains why the behavioral response at the state level will be even faster, how California’s Proposition 40 and similar measures already signal expanding thresholds and permanent taxation, and how redomestication allows business owners to transfer their company’s legal domicile to a new state [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/] without dissolving the entity, without creating a new company, and on a completely tax-free basis while preserving the same FEIN, contracts, credit history, and bank accounts. If you own a business in a state pursuing these measures, the window to act is before they pass. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/ [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/]

Samsung left New Jersey. Here's how small- and medium-sized business owners can do the same.

Attorney and CPA Chad D. Cummings discusses Samsung Electronics' rapid relocation from New Jersey to Texas in this presentation. Eight months after opening a new 270,000 square foot headquarters in New Jersey, Samsung announced it is moving its U.S. headquarters and 1,000 corporate jobs to its campus in Plano, Texas. Samsung joins other major companies like Mercedes-Benz, Hertz, and ExxonMobil in choosing Texas over New Jersey, where the corporate tax rate reaches 11.5 percent. This presentation examines the growing corporate migration to Texas and how the same redomestication process Samsung effectively used for its operations is available to small and mid-sized businesses. Redomestication transfers the company to a new state [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/] without dissolution and without federal income tax consequences when performed correctly, preserving the FEIN, contracts, credit history, and bank accounts. If you own a business in a high-tax state like New Jersey, the math that Samsung performed is instructive. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/ [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/]

Financial Times: "A wealth tax in America? Not if Silicon Valley’s billionaires have their way."

Attorney and CPA Chad D. Cummings discusses the upcoming California wealth tax ballot measure in this presentation as reported by Stephen Foley of the Financial Times. Proposition 40, which would impose a five percent tax on the net worth of California billionaires, has qualified for the November 3, 2026 general election and is shaping up as one of the most expensive and closely watched referendum battles in the state’s history. Backers argue it will raise $100 billion to replace lost federal healthcare funding, while opponents, including a broad coalition of billionaires, unions, and Governor Newsom, warn of capital flight, economic damage, and the likelihood that the tax will not remain limited to billionaires. This presentation examines the proposal’s details, the early exodus of high-net-worth individuals, the spoiler measures on the ballot, and the strategic implications for California business owners. Redomestication offers a proven path to transfer a company out of California [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/] without dissolution and without federal income tax consequences when performed correctly. If you own a business in California, the stakes of this vote are significant. Learn more: https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/ [https://www.cummings.law/redomestication/move-business-out-of-california/]