A Wyoming LLC costs $100 to form and a minimum of $60 a year to keep alive. Both numbers come from the Wyoming Secretary of State’s filing fee schedule, and there is no separate state registration fee, publication requirement or business licence stacked on top. The word doing the work in that sentence is minimum. […]
You can form a US LLC while living in Thailand, and the banking works. Thailand is on neither Mercury’s sanctioned nor its prohibited list, and it is not on Relay’s 31-country list either (both checked 29 September 2026). The Bank of Thailand also publishes that a Thai individual may invest in an overseas business entity […]
A Nevada LLC costs $350 a year to keep alive, and that is before anyone has earned a dollar. It is $200 for the State Business License and $150 for the Annual List of Managers or Managing Members, and both are due every year for as long as the company exists. The second thing to […]
Somebody has told you to file Form 8832 and have your US LLC taxed as a corporation. Usually the pitch comes with one of three promises: it gets you out of Form 5472, it makes you fundable, or it swaps your tax rate for a flat 21%. Here is the short version, and the rest […]
Relay will open an account for most founders who do not live in the United States. The Relay prohibited countries list runs to 31 names, and Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Sri Lanka are not among them. If Mercury turned you down over where you live, Relay is usually the next call […]
Payoneer for US LLC owners comes down to one distinction, and it is worth getting straight before you rely on it. A Payoneer US receiving account gives you a US routing number and a US account number. It is not a US business bank account, and Payoneer says so itself: “the Receiving Accounts provided are […]
If you own a US LLC from outside the United States and sell everything through Amazon, Etsy or eBay, the most likely answer is that you register nowhere and remit nothing, because the marketplace is already collecting the sales tax and sending it to the state. That is not a loophole. It is what state […]
Mercury will not open an account for a founder living in any of 48 prohibited countries, plus four sanctioned countries and regions. The full list is below, checked on 23 September 2026. Before you scroll to find your country, read the sentence that decides your case. Mercury’s help centre says it is “unable to open […]
Here is the short version, and then the test, because the test is what actually decides it. Your foreign-owned US LLC has a filing obligation of its own. That obligation is a pro forma Form 1120 with a Form 5472 attached, and it exists whether or not the company earned anything. That is the company’s […]
Someone sent you a W-9 and asked you to “fill in the tax form.” If you are not a US person, do not sign it. The certification block on Form W-9, signed under penalties of perjury, contains the line “I am a U.S. citizen or other U.S. person (defined below).” Signing that when it is […]
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