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by Dutchie 3574 days ago
Wouldn't it be enough to set up a postal box office in the USA to create a US 'presence' for many saas companies based in Europe? Provided, of course, that you are available during US office hours for email and phone support?
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You still have to pick an entity to bill from. If that is a foreign entity the US customers need a special form from you to do business with you https://www.irs.gov/uac/form-w-8ben-certificate-of-foreign-s...

And having a postal box office doesn't solve cashing a foreign check in the Netherlands.

So as a first step I recommend incorporating a US entity (Inc. in Delaware), setting up the PO box (we used Earth Class Mail), and getting a bank account (heard good things about first republic bank).