Guides
The things nobody tells you until the notice arrives.
Written for founders running a U.S. entity from somewhere else. No filler, no affiliate links, and figures stated only where they are actually fixed.
- Cross-border
Form 5472, and why a dormant LLC still has to file it
The single most expensive thing foreign owners of U.S. LLCs get wrong, and it usually happens in year one.
10 min readRead - U.S. entities
Getting an EIN when you have no SSN or ITIN
The online application is closed to you. Here is what actually works, what to write on line 7b, and how long it really takes.
7 min readRead - U.S. entities
LLC or C-Corp, decided from outside the United States
The usual advice assumes a U.S. owner. Change that assumption and the answer often changes with it.
7 min readRead - U.S. entities
Delaware, Wyoming, or the state you actually operate in
Two states dominate the advice online. For a lot of businesses neither is the right answer, and one of them sends a frightening first bill.
8 min readRead - Sales tax
Economic nexus, and what to do if you have been collecting without registering
How U.S. sales tax finds an online seller, why digital goods are the hard part, and the route back if you got it wrong.
8 min readRead - Bookkeeping
Books months or years behind, and how catch-up actually works
Why history gets fixed before a monthly service starts, why the quote depends on transactions rather than months, and what a clean close is worth.
7 min readRead
Reading about it is the cheap version. Getting it wrong is not.
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