In American English the word corporation is widely used to describe large incorporated businesses.
An incorporated business may not exceed the limits since contributions from corporations are prohibited.
In some cases the owners or directors - for incorporated businesses - could face a prison sentence.
But, he said, it is hard to define the line between a family farm and an incorporated business.
Following the Marshall case, incorporated businesses were granted the same protection human citizens have from police searches.
It surveys net job changes at 400,000 companies representative of the nation's nearly nine million incorporated businesses.
In reality, small incorporated businesses where the members and directors are the same individuals are not run on quite such formal lines anyway.
There are 850,000 incorporated businesses in California, of which about 1,400 are publicly traded.
Other forms are used for incorporated businesses and partnerships.
For incorporated businesses, the amount is at least 25% of the minimum capital stock required by law (€45,000), or €11,250.