United States: The World's Largest Consumer Market

We obtain your EIN from the IRS, arrange ITINs where individual filings are required and open US business banking. Our team tracks the full compliance calendar: the 21% federal corporate rate for C-Corps, the mandatory Form 5472 filing for foreign-owned single-member LLCs, Delaware franchise tax, annual reports and state income tax returns. We also structure your affairs around the applicable double taxation treaty.

The US has no VAT. Instead, thousands of state and local jurisdictions levy sales tax, and since the Wayfair decision selling activity alone can create economic nexus without any physical presence. We analyse where your sales volume triggers registration, obtain seller's permits, assess the marketplace facilitator rules that shift collection onto platforms, and automate your ongoing filing and remittance so no deadline is missed.

We build your selling infrastructure across Amazon.com, Walmart Marketplace, eBay, Etsy and Shopify. Services include trademark registration and Amazon Brand Registry enrolment, listing and A+ content optimisation, PPC campaign management and FBA inbound shipment planning. Before you ship we identify any FDA, FCC or CPSC approvals and California Proposition 65 labelling duties that apply to your product category.

We establish your importer of record structure and manage clearance with US Customs and Border Protection. Our team advises on HTSUS classification, customs bonds, rules of origin and current duty exposure so your landed cost is known in advance. We plan shipments through the Los Angeles/Long Beach, Savannah and New York/New Jersey gateways and build out a nationwide 3PL warehousing and distribution network.

We design the visa strategy for the founders and executives who will run your US operation. We compare the E-2 treaty investor visa, the L-1 intracompany transfer route for opening a US arm of an existing business, the O-1 extraordinary ability category and the EB-5 immigrant investor programme with its lower investment level in targeted employment areas. We prepare the petition, business plan and consular interview.

US employment is regulated largely at state level. We manage the classification risk between W-2 employees and 1099 independent contractors, register you as an employer in each operating state and run payroll and withholding. Where speed matters we deploy PEO or employer-of-record models, and we structure unemployment insurance, workers' compensation cover and competitive health benefit packages.

Before launch we deliver state-level demand analysis, competitor and pricing benchmarks and target customer segmentation. For eligible businesses we map the SBA 7(a) and 504 lending programmes, open doors to angel and venture capital networks, and plan trade show attendance and distributor outreach. The outcome is a scalable market entry roadmap aligned with your growth targets.