There are various factors involved, including:

• What is the purpose of the U.S. LLC? Is it to obtain U.S. insurance for your dropshipping or wholesale business?
• Did you already establish an Amazon account in your personal name or foreign company name, and now you want to change the legal name to the new U.S. LLC?
• Do you want the LLC legal entity to appear as the business name? Remember that the “display name”, which can be changed at any time, shows up under the “sold by” line that customers see first when making a purchase on Amazon. If you want the LLC to show up under the business name vs. your name, that approach greatly impacts the LLC formation.
• Do you have partners with your Amazon business?
• Are you planning to sell on Shopify?
• Do you have an existing account with Amazon that was suspended?

We recommend a strategy call with our CEO to determine your U.S. formation, Amazon account set and verification, tax, and banking strategy before we form your U.S. LLC to avoid costly amendments. Go here to learn more.

While our competitors may offer an automated online filing process that can be completed in just a few minutes, our approach to forming U.S. companies is quite different to protect your brand.

We believe relying solely on automation can lead to mistakes, which is why our service is higher.

Our team of real people will thoroughly review your information before forming your company, and we will often correct potential errors based on your goals. Since you can’t amend an SS4, it must align with your U.S. company goals and foreign ownership.

One of the keys is the Amazon verification. We understand the Amazon verification process for a new Amazon Seller Account and what must be consistent on the filed articles and your address to help you avoid a utility bill, which, if needed, we can provide through a consultation with our CEO, Scott Letourneau or with our Corporate Coaching services. All of this is part of our review process.

How your LLC is set up, the management structure, and who the owners are will impact your U.S. taxes, and we want that to line up with how we complete your SS4 from the start.

Our team consists of experts reviewing the information you submit, and our CEO also reviews all filings.

We pride ourselves on providing a personalized, thorough service that considers your needs and goals.

While automation may seem quick and easy, our approach ensures you receive the best possible outcome for your U.S. company formation.

Our process to help you form a U.S. company is the most complete. We understand you may need to learn all the questions to ask. We will bring them up with our training and double-check your choices.

In the big picture, we would like to know which marketplaces you are planning to sell on. For example, are you selling on Amazon.com, dropshipping, or have a private label product? Are you planning to sell on Shopify also, which impacts sales tax?

Do you need a U.S. entity for Amazon insurance because you have a high-risk product and you can’t get coverage in your home account, or if you can, it is costly?

The foundation of the filing of the LLC articles and the management structure that will give you the most flexibility for U.S. taxation, banking, ownership… Should your LLC be managed by managers or members? It seems simple, yet it is an important question that most online companies get wrong, and it will impact your business on many levels.

I have a list of considerations we recommend you evaluate during our entity formation process.

Our U.S. entity packages do not require knowing which state or entity before starting.

We have four options for support.

First, our packages include a brand-new comprehensive video training by our CEO that includes details on multiple U.S. tax scenarios, strategies for starting a new Amazon account vs. forming an entity to update your existing Amazon account (which is different), Amazon insurance, U.S. sales tax requirements, selling on Walmart, or looking to qualify for Shopify payments, and which state and entity is best based upon these variables.

We cover the new banking changes and U.S. taxpayer requirements and summarize the most common and best options. After watching our comprehensive video, you may complete our webform to submit to our team with your entity’s details.

Second, you may choose a one-on-one Zoom strategy call with our CEO, Scott Letourneau, to help clarify your U.S. expansion and strategy. Go to this link for more details on packages and pricing.

Third, you may join our strategic consulting programs that give you access to send our team unlimited strategy questions via email to support you for either 90 days or 12 months.

Fourth, if you need more clarity on our most updated packages and other services that may or may not apply to your situation, you may schedule a discovery call with our team at this link.

Our team will also review your submission after getting started to ensure it lines up with our SS4 application and your U.S. tax return responsibilities.

Our team will manually review the information you submitted on our web form. We are training to look for inconsistencies.

For example, did you want an LLC taxed as a partnership, which may trigger three U.S. tax returns if you are engaged in a U.S. trade or business with effectively connected income (or did you check on the wrong box for how your LLC would be taxed)? Perhaps you needed to create a U.S. tax person to work with Mercury for banking.

Do you want the start date for an LLC to be before the end of the year or at the start of the new year?

The information for the SS4 is crucial to determine future U.S. tax return responsibilities. Our team will review what was submitted based on our internal IRS tax chart.

Finally, our CEO reviews every U.S. entity filed by our team. Our team will email you if questions arise to clarify any concerns before filing.

Our 32-page Amazon guide will explain step-by-step what to do and avoid mistakes. It starts with our LLC formation, address placement, and other steps. If you are updating your existing Amazon account linked to a foreign company, we have steps for that, from insurance strategies to retake the tax interview to updating the legal name and address on your account.

On the back end, we work with the best in the business for account verification if additional support is required.

[Important] If you came to us after you formed an LLC with another company and attempted to open your Amazon account and were not verified, your costs would be triple for us to do a comprehensive consult to review what you have done, make the amendments and changes, and get our partners to verify your account. Plus, the time frame would be triple the amount of time.

After step 2 below, when you submit your web form with your type of entity and state, your state and entity type will determine your state fees, and our team will send you a separate email for payment.

Our training video goes into the pluses and minutes of each state regarding overall liability protection, taxes, and sales tax compliance.

The good news is that you don’t need to know which state and type of entity before you start with NCP. Our video training will help guide you through your best options.

Suppose you want clarity BEFORE you form an entity with NCP, which is a common approach. In that case, you will start with a consultation with our CEO, Scott Letourneau, a U.S. Main Street Certified Partner and an Amazon Agency and Shopify Partner. Learn more here about booking a consultation.

We will authorize the minimum amount of stock for each state. Some states have a higher filing fee based on the number of shares and par value. Nevada, for example, at 75,000 shares at no par value, equates to a $75 state filing fee, their lowest level.

Keep in mind, if you select an LLC taxed as a corporation, there are membership units not stock issued. NCP does incorporate in all 50 states, even though we are headquartered in Las Vegas, NV.

If you have a special request for more stock to be authorized and a different par value, we will send you a separate price quote before we file your corporation.

The time to file your LLC or Corporation will depend on which state and how fast you can give us the information on steps 2 & 3 of our process.

Some states, like Nevada and Wyoming, can be filed within 24-48 hours of steps 2 & 3 being completed; others, like California, may take 2-3 weeks. States do offer expedited options in most cases, if necessary.

Update: An EIN for a U.S. entity where the responsible party does not have an SSN or ITIN takes 9-12 business days (January 2024). Our new banking partner does not require the IRS letter upfront; the EIN can be pending.

After you submit your payment, you will go to our thank you page to our next steps link to complete our web form.

This link includes our special video training and tips on the best state and entity. We cover the major marketplaces and the required U.S. tax strategies and returns, including the best state.

If you miss the link on the thank you page, we also send you a welcome email with the same link to get started.

Please check your junk folder for an email from support@launchwithconfidence.com if you don’t see the welcome email within 10-15 minutes of payment. Our leading brand, Nevada Corporate Planners, Inc. (NCP), will appear on your merchant account receipt.

Yes. If your entity has physical nexus in another state and it is required to foreign qualify or register we have separate services to help you with that process also. Learn more at this link.

Yes. We work with a group of top CPA firms (and tax attorneys) that specialize in filing U.S. tax returns that may be required. That may include the 1120 or 1120F protective return, along with the 8833 treaty disclosure, or form 5472, the pro-forma 1120, 1040NR, and the W-7. Tax return fees are separate from our U.S. entity formation packages.

At NCP, we don’t just help you form an LLC online – we go above and beyond to ensure your e-commerce business can successfully expand to multiple U.S. marketplaces.

We understand that forming an LLC is just the first step. The real challenge lies in connecting the dots to ensure your LLC is structured correctly, connected to the correct address, platform, and banking, and ready to pass the Amazon tax interview process and Shopify payments verification.

As U.S. e-commerce experts with over 27 years of experience, we have helped countless sellers worldwide navigate the complex landscape of U.S. marketplaces.

We know what it takes to avoid common mistakes that can result in your account being suspended or deactivated, and we have solutions to help you get back on track if this does happen.

What sets us apart from other companies is that we have a team of experts behind the scenes who specialize in solving U.S. tax issues that you may need to learn to exist.

We have seen many clients come to us after making costly mistakes with their “basic filings,” and our tax partners have had to deal with years of IRS issues for these clients – issues that ended up costing them ten times what they paid for the “basic U.S. LLC” formation.

Take your time with your e-commerce business. Trust the experts at NCP to help you navigate the complex landscape of U.S. marketplaces and ensure your business is set up for success.

Yes, we can guide you through the entire process. We realize that most sellers do NOT care about insurance, but they do care about checking this box, so Amazon will keep their account active.

We also understand that some sellers are very concerned about U.S. liability, and they want to know if they invest in a U.S. insurance policy, they will be covered (most will not be because of how the insurance is tied to Amazon).

We have trained reps directly at Amazon in Europe on this process and past sales tax requirements, which have now changed.

We understand the requirements of Amazon and our top U.S. product liability insurance provider to ensure you follow all the steps so your company can avoid getting suspended or having account activation issues.

We understand what must line up regarding addresses on your account and banking with our connections at Amazon. We will provide you with a recommendation to our insurance provider, plus one of our bonuses, which includes a complete Amazon transition checklist.

If you need to form a U.S. LLC to obtain a U.S. certificate of insurance that will provide coverage for your Amazon.com business, click here to schedule that call.

Yes. We have filed thousands of sales tax registrations since 2015. We work with many online sellers who have crossed economic thresholds and need to obtain a sales tax permit before turning on your sales tax shopping cart collections, whether that is in Shopify, Woocommerce, or others.

We have the best rates to get you registered in the non-streamline states. We work with non-residents who do not have an SSN, meaning we may need to fax or mail the sales tax application in a few states.

We are partnered with all the sales tax remitting companies, and to use the software companies, a U.S. bank account is required to do an ACH pull to remit sales tax automatically.

We have over $6K of bonuses designed to tie in your new entity formation correctly to setting up an Amazon account without extra verification or to put you in a position to qualify for Shopify payments, a Walmart approval as a U.S. taxpayer, for example.

Plus, we have several bonuses that help you comply with sales tax if you sell on non-marketplaces. Many of our bonuses help with LLC compliance, so if your U.S. LLC is sued, the entity veil will be protected so as not to impact the owner of the LLC.