U.S. Expansion / For established foreign-owned brands
You have already done the research.
This is where you find out if you are right.
Thirty minutes across all five: marketplaces, tax position, U.S. representative, structure, verification.
Sometimes the answer is stop. Sometimes it is go, and here is the order.
Two ways to start. Free with our team, or $500 with Scott. Both 30 minutes.
Planning
You sell well already and you want the U.S. side built correctly the first time.
Stalled
You submitted and it came back rejected, or you are stuck on a U.S. Representative.
Already built
You have an entity and an account, and you want to know whether the structure holds.
The two calls
Two calls. Different jobs.
If you are still working out the question, take the free one. If you already know your question and want a verdict, take the paid one.
What the CEO Call actually is
This is a verdict on the direction you already picked.
You have done the research and formed an opinion. Here is the shape of what people bring.
“We want the profit to land in our home company, with U.S. tax kept to a minimum.”
That is a legitimate goal, and there are legitimate ways to pursue it. What decides whether it works is that the entity set up to receive the money is the same entity that has to sign the certification TikTok Shop requires. Solve the tax side on its own and the platform side breaks. Solve the platform side on its own and you have built a structure whose intercompany pricing has to survive examination later.
“We will use a virtual address for the U.S. company.”
Some addresses are fine for one purpose and disqualifying for another, and the platform does not tell you which until a review months later, when changing it is the expensive option.
“We found someone in the U.S. who will act as our representative.”
What that person can and cannot do, how many shops one person is allowed to carry, and what happens to the account when the relationship changes are structural questions rather than personal ones.
“We are approved on Amazon, so TikTok Shop should be straightforward.”
One accepts a certification your foreign company can sign. The other asks for one it cannot. And the documents each platform accepts at signup are not the documents it demands at review.
We may be wrong about your situation. Twenty-nine years of watching these decisions play out is pattern recognition rather than certainty, and it is usually enough to tell you which way a structure bends before it bends.
Confirmation is worth as much as correction. Both end the stall, and the stall is what is costing you.
What to expect on the Discovery Call
Thirty minutes with our advanced team, at no cost.
They will ask about your brand, where you sell today, and what you want the U.S. side to do.
You will leave knowing which service fits your situation, what it costs, and how long it takes.
This call places you. Specific tax and structure answers happen on a paid engagement, and the team will tell you which one fits.
What to expect on the CEO Call
Thirty minutes on Zoom, one-on-one with Scott.
Before the call you answer a short set of questions. Those answers are what let the call open on your situation instead of on background.
Bring the one question you keep circling. Scott gives you a direction on it and names what sits underneath it.
Afterward you receive an email listing what was decided and what is still open.
$500, credited in full toward any CEO Blueprint tier or The Verified Path within 30 days.
You do not have to be certain. Sure enough to take one correct first step is the whole requirement. Arrive with whatever you have, and if the CEO Call is the better use of your time our team will tell you on the free one.
Scott Letourneau
CEO and founder, Nevada Corporate Planners
Who you are paying
Twenty-nine years. Seven thousand filings. One channel that changed the rules.
I have worked with business owners across every stage of entity formation, structuring, and compliance since 1997. Today I work almost entirely with non-U.S. ecommerce brands entering the United States, which means the entity, the tax position, the banking, and the marketplace verification are one problem rather than four.
I do not give tax advice or legal advice. I lead a formation and verification team.
Nobody holds a credential that covers all of this. Marketplace verification, U.S. tax, your home country’s treatment of a U.S. company, pricing between your entities, and banking are five separate disciplines, and a decision in one constrains the others. What I own is the order they get handled in, and knowing which specialist answers which question.
That is why the affiliations matter. We are an Amazon Agency Partner and a Shopify Partner, and we work alongside multiple TikTok Shop agencies, and that is the source of the verification knowledge. The tax attorneys, CPAs, and transfer pricing specialists are independent, and they are the ones who document what gets decided.
Some of my clients are CPAs, VAT firms, and law firms who need a U.S. expansion specialist for their own international clients.
✓ MainStreet Certified Tax Advisor® (2023-2025)
✓ IRS Enrolled Agent, in progress
✓ Amazon Agency Partner, Shopify Partner, multiple TikTok Shop agencies
✓ Independent CPAs, attorneys and transfer pricing specialists
Where this leads
The $500 comes off any of these.
A call gives you the direction. These are what document it, and which one fits gets decided on the call rather than before it.
Starting diagnostic
CEO Expansion Decision Review
$1,250
One decision mapped and documented before you spend anything on execution. Many founders find this is all they need.
Flagship
CEO Blueprint: Expansion
From $2,500
A defined U.S. expansion across one or two marketplaces, sequenced end to end, with each specialist handoff written into the plan.
Complex cases
CEO Blueprint: Strategic
From $4,997
Remediation, treaty or permanent establishment questions, pricing between entities, or several marketplaces at once.
There is also The Verified Path at $2,497, which is execution rather than planning. See what each one includes
Thirty minutes. Then you know where you stand.
A year from now, when the U.S. side is running, what will you wish you had settled first? Thirty minutes now is the cheapest version of that answer.
Both are 30 minutes. Times shown in your local time zone.
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The $500 is credited in full toward any CEO Blueprint tier or The Verified Path when you move forward within 30 days. It does not apply to standalone filings or single-item services.
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VERIFIED EXPANSION/by NCP | Since 1997
Educational information only. Not legal, tax, or accounting advice. Scott Letourneau holds the MSCTA® (MainStreet Certified Tax Advisor) credential and is not an attorney or CPA. Verified Expansion is not a law firm or an accounting firm. We coordinate with independent licensed professionals for legal and tax execution. Marketplace approval is determined solely by the marketplace and is never guaranteed.
