Plain-English guides to ITINs, US tax filing and running a US business from India — written by the people who file these forms every week.
Who needs an ITIN, what the IRS actually asks for, and why applying through a Certifying Acceptance Agent in India means your passport never leaves the country.
The realistic sequence for forming a US LLC from India, and the annual filing that catches most foreign-owned single-member LLCs by surprise.
Filing dates for Americans abroad and non-residents with US income, including the automatic two-month extension most people do not know they have.
US tax residency is not the same as immigration status. How the substantial presence test works, and why getting this wrong changes your entire return.
Returns where the ITIN does not match the SSN on a W-2 used to mean paper filing and months of delay. They can now be filed electronically.
There is no national US sales tax - there are thousands of local ones. How economic nexus decides which of them apply to you, and what marketplaces handle for you.
What actually happens when you hire your first US employee - the registrations, the withholding, the quarterly filings, and the one classification mistake that gets expensive.
Licensing in the US runs in four layers, and forming a company satisfies none of them. How to work out which apply to you before you start trading.
What the IRS expects you to be able to produce, how to handle two currencies, and why every transfer between you and your US company needs its own record.
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