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Last reviewed 2026-08-18. Rates and thresholds change with each budget — we confirm the current position before advising.
Yes. There is no citizenship or residency requirement to own a US LLC or C-Corporation. What you do need is a registered agent with a physical address in your state of formation, and an EIN from the IRS. Non-residents without a Social Security Number apply for the EIN by fax or mail rather than online, which adds a few weeks — that timeline, not the formation itself, is usually the bottleneck.
Delaware makes sense if you are raising venture capital — investors know its corporate law and its Court of Chancery, and standard financing documents assume it. For almost everything else, incorporating in the state where you actually operate is cheaper and simpler, because a Delaware entity doing business elsewhere has to foreign-qualify in that state anyway, paying both sets of fees.
Choose a C-Corp if you plan to raise institutional funding or issue stock options; venture investors generally cannot hold LLC interests. Choose an LLC if you want pass-through taxation and lighter administration. The practical difference is that a C-Corp is taxed at the entity level and again on dividends, while an LLC's profits flow straight to the owners' personal returns.
Only in states where you have nexus — either a physical presence, or economic nexus from crossing that state's sales threshold, commonly $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions per year. Each state sets its own rule and its own rate, and marketplace facilitator laws may shift the obligation to the platform if you sell through one.
A federal income tax return, a state annual report or statement of information, and franchise tax if you are in a state like Delaware that charges it. Add sales tax returns for each nexus state, and payroll filings if you have employees. Foreign-owned single-member LLCs also file Form 5472, which carries a $25,000 penalty for non-filing — the most commonly missed US requirement among overseas founders.
Divuzl is a full-stack business services agency: we handle company incorporation and compliance, brand and design, performance marketing and SEO, web and app development, and events and PR. The distinguishing point is scope — most agencies do one pillar and subcontract the rest, which is where deadlines and accountability get lost. We run all four in-house under a single point of contact.
Six markets: India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia and Europe. Each has different company structures, tax regimes and filing calendars, so we maintain separate practice knowledge per market rather than applying one country's playbook everywhere.
No. Most clients start with one thing — an incorporation, a rebrand, a website — and add services as the business needs them. We will also tell you which services you do not need yet, which is usually the more useful half of the conversation.
Through the Divuzl Portal. Every project, approval, meeting, invoice and compliance deadline is visible in one dashboard in real time, so you are not chasing status over email. Clients get their own login from day one of an engagement.
Within one working day. The first response is a real reply from someone who has read your enquiry, not an automated acknowledgement, and it will usually include the questions we need answered to scope the work properly.
Scope-based rather than hourly for defined projects, and retained monthly for ongoing work like marketing, bookkeeping and compliance. You get a written scope and a fixed price before anything starts. Statutory costs such as government filing fees are passed through at cost and shown separately.
Yes, and it is common — half-finished websites, lapsed filings, brand systems with no source files. We start with an audit of what actually exists rather than assuming the handover documentation is complete, then tell you honestly whether continuing or restarting is cheaper.
Ask it directly. We reply within one working day, and we would rather answer a hard question early than discover the mismatch later.
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