Foreign brands expanding into the United States

Plan first. Expand second.

A CEO Blueprint maps the whole order before you register on a channel, form a U.S. company, or move a dollar.

Adding Amazon U.S. can take a few clicks. A new channel like TikTok Shop can need a U.S. company and its own verification.

Which company sells, whose name is on the account, where the profit lands, and who does each part.

For founders whose company is outside the United States, on any channel.

Find your levelThree levels, from $1,250. Each one written for your business.
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Planning and building are different jobs.

01

Map

CEO Blueprint

Decide what gets built, what stays as it is, and what happens in what order.

02

Validate

Your CPA, attorney, and specialists

Your Blueprint hands them the exact questions that need a licensed answer.

03

Implement

Verified Path, a separate package

Once the plan is set, we build it and submit it.

You own your Blueprint. Use your own professionals, or let us introduce the right ones.

What a Blueprint answers

Channels, verification, and tax, planned together.

Four decisions set up every U.S. expansion: which company registers, which channel goes first, whose name sits on the account, and what each company files. Each one moves the others. The Blueprint answers them together, for your facts, instead of one at a time after something is already filed.

Whichever channel you add, selling into the U.S. can create U.S. tax and filing obligations.

Twelve areas. Count the ones you can answer today. Each one you can’t answer is a decision made for you by the first platform, bank, or preparer to touch your file.

Channel expansion

Where you sell, and which company does it.

01 Your current entity

“Can I use the company I already have?”

The wrong answer follows you onto every channel, every bank application, and every policy.

02 Channel order

“Which company registers on TikTok Shop, Amazon, Walmart, or Shopify, and in what order?”

Registering in the wrong order can mean rebuilding the company and restarting the review process.

03 Whose name is on the account

“Is this shop registered to my company, or to someone else’s?”

A shop opened under someone else’s company keeps your reviews, affiliates, and sales history. Leaving means starting at zero.

04 Insurance and category rules

“What does Amazon require on insurance, and whose name goes on the policy?”

The policy must match the company on the account and be with a carrier the platform accepts. That is an entity decision made before the policy, not after.

KYC and verification

Whether your people and records pass each platform’s checks.

05 Your U.S. representative

“Who should it be, and what does the role commit them to?”

We check your representative’s ID, address, and channel history against your application. They choose the right person before you apply.

06 Operating presence

“Will my U.S. address and records pass each channel’s checks?”

TikTok Shop and Amazon test different things. An address that passes one can fail the other, and finding out after you apply means another review.

07 Banking and merchant accounts

“Which U.S. bank and payment accounts can this company open?”

An account in a name that doesn’t match the EIN letter means payouts are held until it does.

Tax

Where the profit lands, and who files what.

08 Entity tax status

“How is this company taxed, and does it give the platform a W-9 or a W-8?”

The form the platform gets decides whether it withholds from your payouts. A disregarded single-member LLC and the same LLC taxed as a corporation give two different answers.

09 Sales tax and state filings

“Where do I register, who collects, and what else does each state expect?”

The channel collects the sales tax in most states. You still have to register once inventory sits in a state, and the income and franchise filings that follow aren’t sales tax.

10 Where the profit lands

“Which company keeps the profit, and what does my home country do with it?”

Profit in the wrong company can be taxed in both countries. Moving it later costs more than placing it right.

11 U.S. and home-country filings

“What does each company file, and how does my home country see it?”

One missed Form 5472 is a $25,000 penalty, and it grows while the form stays unfiled. Returns that disagree between countries invite questions from both.

Across all three

12 Introductions

“Which CPA, attorney, transfer pricing, or trademark expert fits my situation?”

The wrong specialist bills you to learn your file, then sends you to the right one.

Each answer depends on the others, so they get planned together. Every level checks all twelve. Levels 2 and 3 plan them.

Find your level

What getting it wrong costs

The expensive mistakes get locked in early.

Some are tax mistakes. Most are decisions made in the wrong order, by the wrong person, or never made at all. Each one is cheaper to plan than to undo.

$25,000

IRS penalty for one missed Form 5472 on a foreign-owned U.S. company. It grows while the form stays unfiled.

Out of order

Cash landed in the operating company before the IP license was signed.

Held payouts

A merchant account opened in a name that doesn’t match the EIN letter.

Rejected

A U.S. representative whose address or channel history fails the check.

4 quotes

Four specialists quoted separately, and nobody told the attorney what the transfer pricing expert needed.

9 records

One name that doesn’t match across nine records. Every channel, bank, and filing compares them.

The order of decisions

The order of decisions is the plan.

Each step decides something the next one depends on. Get the order wrong, and you have to rebuild the later steps. Your Blueprint covers your version.

Your dates set the order. Inventory landing, go-live, and a second channel decide what is possible, not preference.

Decided here: CEO Blueprint

Steps 1 to 8.

01 Fact intake

Every open fact flagged, not assumed.

Why it comes first

A plan built on an assumed fact gets rebuilt.

02 Ownership and control

Who owns it, where each decision-maker lives, and who actually controls the company.

Why it comes first

Decides who can be a manager and responsible party, and whether a second country can claim the U.S. company.

03 Every channel

Now and planned.

Why it comes first

Entity count depends on the full list, not the first channel.

04 Tax classification

And its effective date, checked against how your home country sees the entity.

Why it comes first

A mismatch changes which forms exist. A wrong election locks for five years.

05 Entity count and IP owner

The license signed before any IP income lands.

Why it comes first

Cash in one company and IP in another tells two stories.

06 Existing entity audit

Members, responsible party, elections, informational returns, and the CP575 address.

Why it comes first

A cleanup filed after a channel application is a rebuild.

07 Operating presence

Tested per channel because TikTok Shop and Amazon don’t test the same things, plus your U.S. representative’s role, exposure, and clean history.

Why it comes first

One failed address check fails the application.

08 Advisor alignment

One written question per specialist. Intercompany pricing set before the first cross-entity payment. A filing calendar across every country, with a name on each line.

Why it comes first

Two advisors with conflicting positions produce two returns that contradict each other. A filing with no name on it is a penalty that grows every year.

Checked in the Blueprint. Built in the Verified Path.

The Blueprint reviews your file against all four steps before you spend a dollar building. The build is a separate package, the Verified Path, $2,497.

09 IRS alignment

CP575 or 147C in hand, Form 1583 in the right name, and whether the name and address on the IRS record match everything else.

Why it comes first

The channel compares your EIN letter to your application, letter for letter.

10 Name alignment

Operating agreement from us. Any agreement between your foreign company and the U.S. one from your attorney. Bank, insurance, and test reports where your category requires them, all in the exact entity name. We check every record.

Why it comes first

Channels and banks compare every record. One spelling difference stops a review.

11 Channel alignment

Will what you have, or what you are about to build, pass each channel’s checks? The address on your EIN letter against each channel’s operating-presence test. One name across every record. Your representative’s history. The Blueprint flags what will fail. The Verified Path fixes it and submits.

Why it comes first

A setup that passes one channel can fail the next. Find out before you apply.

12 Second channel

Second channel only after the first is approved.

Why it comes first

A second channel can need a different entity and a different form.

Alignment

Nine records have to show one name and one address.

01 State filingMatches
02 EIN letter (CP575 or 147C)Matches
03 Form 1583Matches
04 Operating agreementMatches
05 Bank accountMismatch
06 Insurance policy (where required)Matches
07 Test reports (where required)Matches
08 Representative’s ID and utility billMatches
09 Channel applicationMatches

Every record has to say the same thing. We check all of them before anything is submitted.

Insurance in the selling entity’s name, from a carrier the platform accepts.

Open facts

Questions you have to answer before anyone can plan.

Every Blueprint starts here. An open fact gets flagged, not assumed, and the plan names who answers it.

01Where does production physically happen?

02Who signs contracts, and from which country?

03Has the existing LLC ever issued an invoice?

04Which channels are planned next?

05Has a home-country advisor already taken a position on the LLC?

06Does your intended U.S. representative have history on the channel?

07Has money already moved between the companies?

Why it’s worth mapping

One question is never one question.

Here’s where one entity question leads. Each answer opens the next. Your CPA, your bank, and the channel each see only one part.

Move 1

The question you asked

Can I use my existing LLC for TikTok Shop?

Move 2

What it opens first

What does its IRS record say?

Move 3

What that opens

3A. Does the address on the EIN letter pass the channel’s check?Leads to X1

3B. Is the responsible party the right person?Leads to X1 and X4

3C. Was a tax election ever filed, and which one?Leads to X4

3D. Has it filed every informational return?Leads to X2

3E. Can it open the bank and merchant accounts you need?Leads to X3

3F. Do its insurance and test reports carry the same name?Leads to X1 and X3

What it costs

If one answer is wrong

X1 Application rejected, and the review starts over

X2 $25,000 for one missed Form 5472

X3 Payouts held until the names match

X4 A new company, rebuilt from scratch

A Decision Review tells you whether to keep the company, adjust it, or replace it, and who handles each part.

CEO Decision Review, $1,250

Illustrative. Which answers apply depends on your facts.

Who answers what

Each advisor owns one piece, and nobody owns the order.

Your advisors each answer one question well. The Blueprint makes sure their answers agree, and that the right person holds each role.

Three advisors need to reach one position.

Three advisors, three answers. If they never see each other’s work, your U.S. and home-country returns tell two different stories.

Home-country accountant

How your country taxes what the U.S. company earns.

U.S. CPA who specializes in non-residents

The U.S. returns, and what goes on them.

U.S. transfer pricing specialist

What your U.S. company pays your home company, and whether that price survives either country’s audit.

The Blueprint

One written question to each advisor. One position all three can stand behind.

Each of these three roles depends on the one before it.

People often assume they’re the same person. They don’t have to be.

Manager

Runs the company and signs on its behalf.

Rule: the country the manager decides from can claim the company.

↓ The manager’s country sets who can be the responsible party

IRS responsible party

The person the IRS holds accountable for the EIN.

Rule: must be the person who actually controls the company.

↓ Which sets who signs the mail authorization, which sets what the channel sees

U.S. representative

A real person with a stake in your business, chosen by you, prepared by us.

Rule: verify from the U.S., with a clean channel history.

Transfer pricing

When your two companies trade, you set a price.

The moment your foreign company sells product to your U.S. company, you have set a price between two businesses you own. Both tax authorities expect that price to be the one an unrelated buyer would have paid. Most foreign brands never set it on purpose. It gets picked at the border, or it gets backed into at year-end by whoever prepares the return, and by then the only safe answer left is the one that costs the most tax.

Your Blueprint settles three things before anyone prepares anything:

Whether your structure creates an intercompany transaction at all.

A foreign owner shipping direct, with no sale between the two companies, has nothing to price.

Whether you are at the scale where it earns its cost.

In the files we see, the analysis starts to earn its cost somewhere around the mid six figures in U.S. sales on one channel, and growing. Below that, the compliance stack usually costs more than it returns.

Whether you have the evidence.

The defensible price is built from discounts you already give unrelated buyers. All direct-to-consumer, with no volume discount history, means no internal comparable.

We do not prepare the analysis. We determine whether you need it and connect you with the specialist who does.

The right introductions

We introduce the specialist who fits your stage.

CPAs, attorneys, and transfer pricing, trademark, sales tax, insurance, and banking specialists each own one question. The Blueprint names the ones you need now, writes each a question, and makes the introduction, so you don’t pay the wrong one to learn your file.

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Under thresholds
Multi-state active
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Money in the wrong entity
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Entity counsel
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Product safety and customs
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Core means the Blueprint writes this specialist a question on every case at this stage. As needed means only when the facts trigger it. Specialist fees are separate.

Scott Letourneau with Paul Somerstein, head of Amazon partnerships, at Amazon Accelerate
Scott with Paul Somerstein, head of Amazon partnerships, at Amazon Accelerate.
Scott Letourneau with Marc Schwartz, JD and CPA
Scott with Marc Schwartz, JD and CPA.
Scott Letourneau with Chris McCabe of Amazon appeals
Scott with Chris McCabe, Amazon appeals.
Scott Letourneau with Eston Humphrey of PwC
Scott with Eston Humphrey of PwC.
Scott Letourneau with The Sales Tax People team at the Amplify Growth Summit
Scott with The Sales Tax People team at the Amplify Growth Summit.

From recent Blueprints

What mapping first changed on real files.

6 decisions reversed

Six decisions reversed on one file. None of them by the client’s first instinct, and all of them before anything was filed.

$20,000 vs. $8,000 to $14,000

One quote for a single memo, against two coordinated specialists, each in their own area, pricing the same work.

4 unknowns

Four facts had to be flagged as unknown before we could write a plan.

Anonymized. No client details. Figures from individual files, not averages.

Already built, and now it needs fixing

You set it up, started selling, and the setup is showing.

Success tends to expose the setup. The longer it runs, the more each problem costs to unwind. If any of these sound familiar, start here.

✓Returns are late, or were never filed.

✓The ownership on paper doesn’t match who actually owns and runs it.

✓A tax election was filed, or never filed, and payroll or distributions were run as if it had been.

✓Sales are coming in through a company that wasn’t built for them.

✓A CPA looked at the file and declined the work.

Three ways forward, compared for your file.

Each one has a plus, a minus, and a consequence. The Strategic Blueprint lays them side by side, then orders the fixes.

Plan A Keep the company

Catch up the returns and correct the records in the right order.

Plan B Close it

Wind it down properly, with every final filing named.

Plan C Start a new one

Move the business into a clean company, and handle the old one so it doesn’t follow you.

The right CPA for a catch-up file

Not every firm takes late or messy returns. We introduce the ones that do, with a written brief so they start from your facts.

Strategic Blueprint, from $4,997

From founders who mapped first

What clients say.

“Scott goes above and beyond and has been an invaluable source of expertise for a UK brand looking to grow into the US, spanning tax, operations, and business strategy. He thinks of pitfalls and solves them before you even realise they exist.”

Joe Hayward, non-resident seller (UK)

“He asked first-principle questions, uncovered my real goals, and turned months of confusion into a clear, actionable plan.”

Johnny Lee, Amazon brand

“Scott has in-depth knowledge of US taxation. His advice gave me a clearer picture of my options for company structure and tax.”

Raffles Ikon, non-resident seller

Find your level

Choose by the work you need done.

An existing company or a second channel doesn’t decide your level on its own. Find the sentence that sounds like you.

Who a Blueprint is not for

A founder who wants a provider’s company to run the shop for a percentage of sales. Every plan on this page ends with a company you own, on a fee that ends.

Three CEO Blueprints

Three levels of planning, each led by Scott.

Review a proposed move, plan the connected expansion, or reassess what’s already built.

Scott leads every engagement. Ten Blueprints a month.

Most brands adding TikTok Shop start with the Expansion Blueprint. The Decision Review is for one move that doesn’t need the whole structure designed.

Cross-border tax advisers commonly quote five figures for the tax piece alone. On one file, a single memo was quoted at $20,000.

Two coordinated specialists priced the same work at $8,000 to $14,000. The Blueprint starts that coordination with a flat fee and gives your CPA and attorney the facts to confirm.

Level 1: CEO Decision Review

One defined move. A verdict, not a plan.

“Our CPA proposed converting the LLC to a corporation. Should we?” is one move. “How should we expand into the U.S.?” is a plan, and it belongs at Level 2.

$1,250

One time. Written for your business.

Get the Decision Review, $1,250

You walk away with

✓A verdict on the move: proceed, proceed with conditions, pause, or change it.

✓A 12-point check of your move, each area marked clear, flag, or route. Anything outside the move is marked route, with the level that answers it.

✓What the move locks you into, and what it costs to undo.

✓The questions your CPA must answer before they sign off, written for your case.

Also included

Your Home-Country Accountant Questions, written out so you don’t pay them to find the questions.

Protects you from

Signing a move that triggers unplanned filings, a failed verification, withheld payouts, or tax in two countries.

What you send us

Only what your one question touches, from your articles, EIN letter (CP575 or 147C), operating agreement, and any agreement between companies. Documents that already exist. No platform logins, rejection notices, or account screenshots.

Not at this level

  • The plan itself: which company sells on each channel, and in what order.
  • Plans A, B, and C compared.
  • Written briefs for your specialists.

That’s the Expansion Blueprint.

Start here, and your $1,250 applies toward it if the first session shows your question is a plan.

Choose this when

The proposal is already defined. Choose Level 2 when the connected plan still needs designing.

Two sessions with Scott. Questions between sessions are saved for Session 2.

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Level 2: Expansion Blueprint

The plan. All twelve areas, for your facts, in order.

Level 1 checks one move against all twelve areas. Level 2 plans all twelve, before your team builds anything.

$2,500

One time. Written for your business.

Get the Expansion Blueprint, $2,500

Everything in Level 1, plus

✓Which channel goes first, and which company sells on each.

✓What verification will ask for, matched to the company you build.

✓Which bank and merchant accounts this company can open, and the insurance your channels require.

✓Who buys the inventory, who owns it in the U.S., and how it’s documented.

✓Who TikTok and Amazon pay, and how money moves between your companies.

✓Where the profit lands, and how your home country sees it.

✓Introductions to the specialists your plan needs, each with a written question.

✓Plans A, B, and C compared, and your step-by-step setup sequence.

Also included

Your Professional Briefs: one written brief each for your bookkeeper, CPA, and attorney, so they start from your facts.

Protects you from

Weeks lost to verification rejections, an address that fails operating-presence checks, and profit taxed in two countries.

What you send us

Your articles, EIN letter (CP575 or 147C), operating agreement, and any intercompany agreements. We review everything against the twelve areas. Documents that already exist. No platform logins, rejection notices, or account screenshots.

Not at this level

  • Correcting what is already built: late returns, a wrong election, money in the wrong entity.
  • A catch-up plan, and which fix comes first.
  • Keep, close, or start new, compared.

That’s the Strategic Blueprint.

An existing company with clean filings still fits here.

Choose this when

Several decisions depend on each other. Choose Level 3 when what’s in place needs deeper investigation.

Two sessions with Scott, then one written clarification set after Session 2.

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Level 3: Strategic Blueprint

The correction plan. What is built, what is wrong, and the fixes in order.

Behind on returns, or built wrong? For a company that’s already selling and needs catching up, unwinding, or restructuring before the problems grow.

From $4,997

One unfiled year of one form costs more than this plan.

Scope and fee confirmed on your first session.

Start the Strategic Blueprint, from $4,997

Everything in Level 2, plus

✓What’s in place today, and what doesn’t match how you actually operate.

✓Which issues come first, ranked by urgency and consequence.

✓A catch-up plan for late returns, and where ownership, elections, or payroll need correcting.

✓Keep, close, or start new, each path with its plus, its minus, and what it sets in motion.

✓A correction plan: what to keep, what to change, and what to investigate.

✓Introductions to a CPA who takes catch-up work, and any other specialist the plan needs.

✓For service businesses with U.S. staff or clients: ownership, intercompany fees, hiring, state tax, and exit, mapped and sequenced.

Also included

Specialist Session: a relevant specialist can join your third session. Their fees are separate.

Protects you from

Penalties that add up each year a form stays unfiled, and fixes done in the wrong order.

What you send us

Your articles, EIN letter (CP575 or 147C), operating agreement, and any intercompany agreements. We review everything against the twelve areas. Documents that already exist. No platform logins, rejection notices, or account screenshots.

Not at this level

  • Preparing the returns, filing the corrections, or forming a replacement company.

Those are quoted after the plan, by the professional who does them.

Choose this when

The answer depends on reviewing what’s already built, or comparing complex options.

Three sessions with Scott, plus written clarification and coordination with specialists. We quote cases with unfiled returns, a wrong election, or money already in the wrong entity after the first call.

Already applied and rejected? That’s the Verified Diagnostic.

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Blueprint fees cover planning and the stated support. Formation, account setup, filings, bookkeeping, tax preparation, and specialist fees are separate. We work with tax attorneys and CPAs, who confirm the legal and tax conclusions. The $500 Strategy Call credit applies within 30 days of the call.

Where each level stops.

If your question lands in the next level, it’s written down as a route and answered there.

Level 1, $1,250

The Decision Review doesn’t cover

  • Which company sells on each channel, and in what order.
  • Plans A, B, and C compared.
  • Written briefs for your specialists.

Level 2, $2,500

The Expansion Blueprint doesn’t cover

  • Correcting what’s already built: late returns, a wrong election, money in the wrong entity.
  • A catch-up plan, and which fix comes first.
  • Keep, close, or start new, compared.

Separate at every level

The Blueprint names the professional and writes their questions. They quote and bill their work.

  • Tax returns and corrections
  • Legal documents
  • Transfer pricing analysis
  • Channel specialists
  • The build and submission (Verified Path)

Side by side

What each document contains.

Each level covers all twelve areas. Each level up decides more of them.

In the document

Decision Review

$1,250

Expansion plan

$2,500

Correction plan

From $4,997

Verdict on the move you bring
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Twelve areas checked: clear, flag, or route
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Alternatives built and compared: Plans A, B, and C
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The order: first, second, third
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Written briefs for each specialist
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Recommended path, and why
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Review of what’s already built and filed
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Correction plan, and which fix comes first
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Decided for you
2 of 8
6 of 8
8 of 8

Scope and support

Your need

CEO Decision Review

$1,250

Expansion Blueprint

$2,500

Strategic Blueprint

From $4,997

Primary job
Check a defined proposal
Design the connected expansion
Investigate and reassess what’s built
What you leave with
A verdict
The plan
The correction plan
Decisions planned
One defined move. Other areas named, not planned
All twelve, in order
All twelve, plus what is already built
Written outcome
Verdict and 12-point check
14-section Blueprint, plans compared
Issues ranked, keep, close, or start new, fixes in order
Professional handoff
Questions for your CPA
A written brief and introduction for each specialist
Specialist coordination
U.S. staff, clients, and exit
Not covered
Named where they touch the plan
Mapped and sequenced
Sessions with Scott
2
2
3
Between and after sessions
Questions saved for Session 2
One written clarification set
One clarification set, plus specialist coordination

Look inside

See what you get, with the answers blacked out.

Pages modeled on real Blueprints, with client names, figures, and recommendations removed. Open any level to see its structure.

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CEO Decision ReviewClient

Verdict

Proceed with conditions

 

The 12-point check

01 Your current entityClear
02 Channel orderClear
03 Whose name is on the accountClear
04 Insurance and category rulesFlag
05 Your U.S. representativeClear
06 Operating presenceFlag
07 Banking and merchant accountsClear
08 Entity tax statusFlag
09 Sales tax and state filingsClear
10 Where the profit landsRoute
11 U.S. and home-country filingsRoute
12 IntroductionsRoute

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One of four verdicts

Proceed, proceed with conditions, pause until a named condition, or change the move. The reasons are written for your case.

Twelve areas checked against the move

Each one is marked clear, flag, or route, so you see what the move touches and what it leaves alone.

What route means

The question is real, and it sits outside the move you asked about. Every route names where it gets answered: the Blueprint level that plans it, or the professional and the exact question to bring them. The question is written for you either way.

The exact question for each professional

Every professional route names the exact question to bring them, so your CPA’s first hour is advice.

Expansion BlueprintThe expansion map, plans compared, and all 14 sectionsOpen the sample +
Section 5: Your Cross-Border Expansion Map

Zone 1: Home country

Where the companies are managedPending
How your country sees a U.S. LLCResolve first

Zone 2: The crossing

Inventory ownership by channelPending
Who signs whatSettled

Zone 3: United States

Who is the sellerSettled
Entity and electionResolve first
EIN letter address against each channel’s checkResolve first

Section 11: Plans A, B, and C

CriteriaABC
Speed to launch
Risk isolation
Passes each channel’s checks
Tax coherence
Fits your dates

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Sixteen decisions, three zones

Every decision your expansion touches, marked settled, pending, or resolve first, with an owner and the Blueprint section that covers it.

Your plans compared

The recommended plan and its alternatives, scored on speed, risk, verification, tax coherence, and fit with your dates.

What can’t be undone, named in advance

The hard-to-reverse decisions, and what to revisit if a fact changes.

The 14 sections of every Expansion Blueprint

  1. Executive summary
  2. Key facts, assumptions, and decision branches
  3. Goals and priorities
  4. Current state assessment
  5. Your Cross-Border Expansion Map
  6. The core tax question
  7. Entity architecture: which company runs which channel
  8. Channel verification map
  9. The U.S. representative role, scoped
  10. The sequence, and what waiting costs
  11. Plans A, B, and C
  12. Transfer pricing: required, scoped, routed
  13. Specialist routing and investment summary
  14. Risk flags, decision points, and next steps
Strategic BlueprintWhere you stand, keep, close, or start new, and fixes in orderOpen the sample +
Strategic Blueprint

1. Where you are now

2. Three paths, compared

Plan A: keep the company
Plan B: close it
Plan C: start new

3. Fixes in order

Immediate
Urgent
Important
Strategic

Verified Expansion by NCP. Confidential redacted sample.

Where you stand, in writing

What’s already built, what’s been filed, and what doesn’t match how you actually operate.

Keep, close, or start new

Each path with its plus, its minus, and what it sets in motion, so you choose with the consequences in view.

Fixes in the right order

Each fix tied to the deadline that matters and the professional who files it.

Illustrative structure. Statuses, sections, and verdicts vary by case. Your Blueprint is written for your facts and agreed scope.

How it works

Plan with Scott, confirm with your advisors, then build.

1 Plan with Scott

Review your facts and open questions. Receive the written assessment or plan for your level.

2 Confirm with your advisors

Your CPA, attorney, and specialists confirm the positions in their expertise. Use your own team or ask us for introductions.

3 Build it in the right order

Your team executes the plan, or NCP quotes the implementation. You own the Blueprint either way.

Already know what to build?

If your structure is decided and reviewed by a U.S. tax professional, you may be ready for Verified Path implementation without a Blueprint first.

Verified Path, $2,497

Scott Letourneau, CEO and Founder, Nevada Corporate Planners

Scott Letourneau

CEO and Founder, Nevada Corporate Planners, Inc.

Meet your expansion strategist

One person who sees how the decisions connect.

Scott founded Nevada Corporate Planners in 1997 and has worked with over 7,000 founders on formation, structure, and compliance. Today he focuses on foreign-owned ecommerce brands entering the U.S. through Amazon, TikTok Shop, and Shopify.

Scott leads the planning and names the issues to resolve. We work with tax attorneys and CPAs, who confirm the legal and tax conclusions.

Registered TikTok Shop Partner

Amazon Service Provider Network

Shopify Partner

MSCTA® credential

Scott Letourneau with TikTok Shop at CES
Scott with TikTok Shop at CES.

Your shop can register through us as its partner on record, and TikTok’s U.S. partnerships team keeps us current on requirement changes.

Read Scott’s full bio

Scott Letourneau with industry leaders at Amazon Accelerate
Scott with industry leaders at Amazon Accelerate.

Before you decide

Questions that decide your level.

Can I use my current company on a new channel?

Often. The Blueprint checks what it has filed, what its IRS record says, and whether its name, address, and representative will pass the new channel’s checks. Then it says keep it, adjust it, or replace it.

Will my U.S. address pass verification?

It depends on the channel and how the account is set up. An address that passes TikTok Shop can fail Amazon’s operating-presence test. The Blueprint checks yours against each channel you plan, before you apply.

I have one question. Does that mean Decision Review?

Not always. “How should we expand into the U.S.?” is one question that needs a full plan. Decision Review fits when the proposal is already defined. The Expansion Blueprint fits when the setup still needs designing. If your first session shows the question is a plan, the Decision Review fee applies toward the Expansion Blueprint.

I’m behind on returns. Where do I start?

With the Strategic Blueprint. It maps what’s missing, compares keeping, closing, or replacing the company, and puts the fixes in order. We bring in a CPA to handle catch-up work and file the late returns. Their fees are separate and quoted by them.

We sell services to U.S. clients, not products. Does this apply?

Yes. The questions change: moving ownership to your home company, the agreement and fees between your companies, U.S. hires and whether they create a taxable presence, state tax driven by staff and customers, how profit comes home, and how a future sale is taxed. Those cases usually start at the Strategic Blueprint.

Does an existing U.S. company mean I need Strategic?

No. An expansion that includes an existing company often fits Level 2. Strategic is for deeper investigation, correction planning, or comparing complex restructuring options.

How is a Blueprint different from company formation?

A Blueprint decides what to build, keep, or review, and in what order. Formation carries out a setup that’s already decided.

Can I use my existing CPA and attorney?

Yes. You can share the plan and your professional questions. Your advisors confirm what’s in their expertise. We can introduce independent professionals if you need them. Their fees are separate.

Are formation, filings, or channel approvals included?

No. These are planning engagements. We scope formation, filings, account setup, tax returns, and bookkeeping separately. Channels, payment providers, and banks make their own approval decisions.

I sell on Amazon in a restricted category. Is insurance part of this?

The Blueprint decides whose name the policy goes in. Amazon’s updated insurance requirement applies from November 2, 2026, and the policy has to match the company on the account. Getting the policy in place is its own package, Amazon Insurance Ready.

I already booked a Strategy Call with Scott. Does it count?

An eligible Strategy Call with Scott, $500, credits toward the CEO Decision Review and replaces one of its two sessions. Contact the team before paying to confirm your credit.

Need help confirming the scope? Email support@launchwithconfidence.com.

Get the plan before your next commitment.

Which channel and company go first, whether your records pass each platform’s checks, and where the profit lands. Every CEO Blueprint is led by Scott Letourneau. Ten Blueprints a month.

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This page is educational and is not legal or tax advice. Scott Letourneau holds the MSCTA® credential. We work with tax attorneys and CPAs for legal and tax execution. TikTok Shop and Amazon make every approval decision. Testimonials reflect individual experiences. © 2026 Nevada Corporate Planners, Inc. nvinc.com

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