Serving as Your Illinois Registered Agent. For U.S Mail, Fed-Ex, Ups, and other deliveries, please use the following address:

Howard Tax Prep LLC 4000 W. Montrose Ave #545 Chicago, Il, 60641

(One Copy for Client | One Copy for Howard Tax Prep LLC)

Thank you for deciding to use Howard Tax Prep LLC, hereinafter sometimes referred to as “Registered Agent,” as the professional registered agent for your entity. This letter addresses the nature and scope of the Howard Tax Prep LLC duties to you, and your duties to Howard Tax Prep LLC. This letter also serves as an Engagement Agreement between Howard Tax Prep LLC, and you. Every state in the nation allows one to create a business entity, such as a corporation, partnership or limited liability company. However, because the business entity is not a real person, each state requires that a person or separate company be named as the registered agent for that business entity for service of process. Illinois requires that if a person serves as registered agent he or she must reside in the state of Illinois, or if a corporation or LLC is chosen to serve as registered agent, it must have an office in Illinois, and that the name and address of the registered agent continually be on file in the office of the Secretary of State. This means that if your company is sued, the legal documents may be “served” on, or delivered to, the registered agent at the specific address on file in the office of the Illinois Secretary of State. That delivery begins the time running for your entity to file an answer or other response in the Court where the lawsuit is pending. Inaction could result in a default judgment against your company. Thus, time is of the essence in these matters, and it is important that you choose a qualified registered agent to insure speedy notice to you so that you may then respond to the issue at hand. The registered agent’s ability to quickly notify you of lawsuits is of great importance to the efficiency and protection of your entity.

So long as the Howard Tax Prep LLC always knows your location and how to contact you, Howard Tax Prep LLC will notify you within 72 business hours after receipt of any legal process in which your business entity has been named a party. The pertinent documents will be forwarded to you at the address you have provided by email, FedEx, United Parcel Service or another postal service. If you have provided a fax number or an email address, the documents will be faxed or emailed to you within the stated time period. The attorney who created the business entity for you can also be notified if you so indicate. Howard Tax Prep LLC duties do not include answering or in any manner getting involved with the court litigation. The Registered Agent provides you with the notification, and once you receive the documents from the Registered Agent’s office, it is your responsibility to respond or otherwise proceed with the lawsuit. If you have not provided Howard Tax Prep LLC with a valid address for you, Howard Tax Prep LLC contractual obligation to notify you is null and void, and Howard Tax Prep LLC has no further responsibility to serve you in any way. If you have named us as the principal office of your business or have not stated a principal place of business at all in your Articles of Organization, we may from time to time receive mailings for your company. If we receive this mail, Howard Tax Prep LLC will collect and sort the mail for you. Generally, this mail is solicitations and other "junk mail" from persons or entities finding your address on the Illinois Secretary of State's web site. Often it is credit card companies wanting you to apply for one of their credit cards. We will throw this mail away. However, any official documents sent to this address for your company will be opened, scanned and emailed to you. If we do not have your email address, we will mail the official documents to the business address that you have supplied to us in your questionnaire.

For the registered agent to adequately perform the duty of immediate notification, and to comply with Illinois Law, it is important that you always keep Howard Tax Prep LLC informed of the current contact information for your business entity. Included herewith is a Business Entity Information Questionnaire which will need to be completed in order for Howard Tax Prep LLC to serve as your registered agent. You agree to provide us with the

information listed on the questionnaire and to notify us of any change in the information listed on the Questionnaire within sixty (60) days of any change,

including changes in the following information: 1.The address of record to which all service of process is to be delivered for the business entity; 2.The names and addresses of each entity’s directors, officers, limited liability company managers, managing partners, trustees or persons serving in a similar capacity;

3.The name, business address and business telephone number of a natural person who is an officer, director, employee or designated agent of the entity who is authorized to receive communications from Howard Tax Prep LLC and is deemed the designated communications contact for the business entity.

Our services for being the registered agent for your business entity shall be $120.00 annually. The cost for us to file the annual report is $35. This fee $155 fee is due on each anniversary date when you originally retained Howard Tax Prep LLC. You will be billed each year in advance of the anniversary date of your entity. At that time, you will be asked to complete a form regarding any change in address or other contact information. If the annual fee is not received within 15 days of your anniversary date, we reserve the right to resign as the registered agent for your entity. Under Illinois law, the absence of a registered agent will place your company in noncompliance with the state business entity laws and may cause your entity to be administratively dissolved.

If we are obligated to send paperwork to additional addresses other than to the ones specifically stated above, the costs of postage will be charged to you.

You have the right to terminate the registered agent’s services at any time by notification in writing. If services are terminated, you will be responsible for the services performed and other charges incurred through the date of the Registered Agent’s receipt of the termination notice. Howard Tax Prep LLC has the right to terminate its services if it is discovered that you have not given the Registered Agent valid addresses or if the annual fee has not been paid when due, or upon providing thirty days’ written notice to you.

If you consent to the Registered Agent Engagement, please sign and return this Agreement to Howard Tax Prep LLC and wait on the invoice to arrive in the amount of $155.00. To protect you against incurring any unnecessary charges, we will not commence services until we receive your written authorization and initial fee.

If you have any questions regarding this Agreement, please do not hesitate to call and discuss it with us.

I authorize Howard Tax Prep LLC to serve as the registered agent on behalf of the above named business entity.

I represent to Howard Tax Prep LLC, that I have full authority to act on behalf of the business entity. I acknowledge that the contents of this Engagement Agreement are understandable and agree to the terms set forth therein. If this business entity elects to use Howard Tax Prep LLC mailing address in order to preserve anonymity and privacy, I authorize Howard Tax Prep LLC to open mail addressed to my entity and destroy all junk mail.

Signature of Authorized Representative

I certify that I am an Authorized Representative for the members and managers of the business entity and I understand that if I am not an Authorized Representative for the entity, I personally accept responsibility and liability for the terms of this engagement letter.