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by rdl 4389 days ago
Are you talking about a non citizen doing this, or a citizen/permanent resident?

A noncitizen actually can use the USA as a tax haven in ways similar to this (I'm not sure of the specifics of this particular situation). IMO there isn't a whole lot special about non US people not owning US taxes when outside the US.

A US citizen or permanent resident is taxed on global income (you do get around your first 95k/yr deducted if you are out of the country enough, which is why I went diving for 4 months at the end of a contract and net made more money than returning to the US that year). A corporate entity being treated as disregarded just exposes that income the us person's global us tax liability.

(Again, I am absolutely not a lawyer; this is not tax advice)

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I am talking about a non US citizen.

N.B. I don't know why somebody downvoted me for clarifying the previous point.