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by slowdown 4479 days ago
Call me stupid, but the only reason why I incorporated an LLC in the States is because I wanted get access to the Stripe API for production (yeah, it's a huge compliment to the Stripe guys ;)

The payment gateways in my country are shit..Also, the US account is only used for the payment gateway, all the IP of my software is owned by the company in my home country. You know, just so someone doesn't sue me for rounded corners and having anchor links on my webpage, stuff like that.

So far so good, I just report EFI (Effectively connected income) to the IRS, which means only the businesses that I do with USA, all signups from other countries aren't taxed by the IRS believe.

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I hear you. The payment gateways in DK simply suck. However, Braintree and Stripe are now all over Europe too.
> incorporated an LLC in the States

LLC aren't incorporated, because they aren't corporations. they're companies. there's a big difference.