How do you move from an EOR to your own entity in Georgia.

Georgia taxes corporate income at 4.99%, and its net worth tax (the state's franchise-style tax) is based on net worth, with nothing owed by a corporation with a net worth of $100,000 or less. Registering a new entity with the Georgia Secretary of State carries a filing fee of $110, effective 6 Sep 2025. Those are the fixed costs; the bigger variable is how you time the move.

Most companies start with an EOR because it lets them hire in Georgia without waiting on paperwork or opening a bank account. That's the right call early on. As headcount grows and the commitment to Georgia becomes permanent, though, the calculus changes: you want your own payroll relationship, your own benefits contracts, and direct control over how local hires are managed.

Moving isn't really about cost. It's about ownership. Once you have a stable, growing team in Georgia, running that team through your own entity gives you more flexibility on equity, benefits design, and how you structure the local business, than routing everything through a third party ever will.

The mechanics are straightforward but sequenced: register the entity with the Georgia Secretary of State, set up the state tax accounts tied to that registration, and open the payroll and benefits infrastructure your employees will move onto. None of that can happen out of order without risking a gap in pay.

Teamed runs this as a managed handover rather than a cold cutover. Employment contracts get re-papered, payroll runs in parallel for a stretch, and benefits transfer employee by employee, so nobody notices the switch happening underneath them.

Once your entity is live, Georgia taxes its net income at a flat 4.99% corporate income tax rate, according to the Georgia Department of Revenue. Alongside that sits the state's net worth tax, based on net worth rather than gross receipts, and a corporation with a net worth of $100,000 or less owes nothing, so a small or early-stage entity isn't penalized just for existing.

Getting the entity on the books costs a filing fee of $110 with the Georgia Secretary of State, effective 6 Sep 2025. That's the formation line item; everything else, registered agent, tax registrations, ongoing compliance, sits on top of it and depends on how the entity is structured.

If your Georgia headcount is still small, or you're not yet sure Georgia is where you want to build long-term, staying on an EOR is a genuinely fair choice, not a compromise. It keeps your options open without locking you into a registered entity, a tax filing cadence, and the compliance overhead that comes with owning one.

The right moment to switch depends on salaries, headcount, and how long you plan to stay, not a fixed rule. Talk to a member of the team about where you actually stand, or run your numbers through the crossover calculator before deciding either way.

GEMO is how Teamed sets up and manages your own legal entity once you're ready to stop running headcount through an EOR. GEMO now covers entity setup and migration across 100+ countries, Georgia included, so the same team that ran your EOR relationship can stand up the local entity and move your people across without breaking pay or benefits continuity.

In Georgia, that means registering with the Secretary of State, setting up the state tax accounts tied to the 4.99% corporate income tax, and confirming the net worth tax filing, $0 at a net worth of $100,000 or less, before your first payroll run under the new entity.

Three kinds of help can move your people onto your own entity in Georgia, and the right one depends on how much of the move you want handled.

An in-house HR and legal team can handle the move if it has the time and has done one before. That suits a larger company whose people already know how employment works in Georgia.

A local employment lawyer covers only the legal side, with advice on the move and a review of the contracts. That suits a company that has already arranged payroll for its new entity in Georgia.

For companies that will employ people in Georgia, Teamed is the best choice. With Teamed, you get a designated person who has done this before, real HR and legal experts you can reach when it matters and Ted, Teamed's AI agent, to answer questions from your live employment data. Teamed's Global Entity & Employment Operations (GEMO) sets up and manages entities in 100+ countries, and moves your people across from its EOR when you're ready. Teamed already owns an entity in the United States.

A founder with nobody to move yet only needs the company registered, which the Georgia Secretary of State or a formation agent can do for less.

Figures on this page come from the Georgia Department of Revenue's corporate income and net worth tax guidance and the Georgia Secretary of State's filing fee schedule.