Wall 01Procurement
A vendor portal built for US vendors
Procurement portals turn away foreign vendors or send them down a slower approval route.
Built for · Agencies
A US LLC for a marketing, design or development agency abroad
An agency sells to companies, and companies prefer to buy from companies. A US LLC is how an agency in Lahore, Lagos or Lviv stops being the vendor procurement has to make an exception for.
- Usually
- Structure
- Wyoming LLC
- Plan
- Standard
- On the day
- $601.40
- Every year
- $309
01Why a US company
What it does for agencies.
US clients' finance teams have a process for US vendors and a workaround for foreign ones. A US LLC puts you in the process: a W-9 on file, invoices from a company with an EIN, payment by ACH to a US bank, and no withholding questions. Ad platforms and software vendors bill the company, and a client who later wants to buy your agency is buying a company.
It also lets the agency pay US contractors from a US account and file the Form 1099-NEC the IRS expects, which is often the moment agencies find a US company simpler than the alternative.
02What stands in the way
Three things in the way, and one way through.
Wall 02Banks and processors
Accounts that don't serve your country
Payment processors and business accounts may not serve the country your agency is based in.
Wall 03US contractors
Paying them comes with reporting
Paying US freelancers brings reporting duties that are easier to meet from a US company.
The door
A US LLC, with its EIN and a US bank account.
One set of documents that procurement, the banks and your contractors' paperwork all accept.
03The honest part
What to know before you order.
01
Keep management where the team is
Your team does the work in your country, which keeps the income foreign-source. If the agency hires a US employee, opens a US office or gives a US salesperson authority to sign contracts, it can end up with a US trade or business, and US income tax with it. US contractors under a proper agreement don't create that by themselves.
02
A multi-member LLC files differently
Two or more owners make the LLC a partnership for US tax, which files Form 1065 with a Schedule K-1 for each member every year. A partnership doesn't file Form 5472, which belongs to corporations and single-member LLCs with a foreign owner. It's more paperwork than a single-owner company, and it's why Standard and above record the ownership split.
03
Your own country
A company run from your office may be resident for tax where the office is. Ask a local accountant before the first invoice.
The plan that fits
Standard, usually.
Agencies often have more than one owner. Standard records who owns what, categorises transactions for your accountant, files Form 1099-NEC for your US contractors, and replies within one business day.
StandardFits an agency
For founders who need a bank account, invoices and payments this month.
To start
$601.40 once
Includes the $102.40 Wyoming fee · then $309 a year
04Questions
Questions from agencies.
If yours is not here, email us at [email protected] before you order.
Yes. The LLC has three members, the operating agreement records the split, and the company files as a partnership for US tax, with a Form 1065 and three K-1s.
Yes, from its US bank account. Any US contractor paid $2,000 or more in a year, the threshold since 2026, gets a Form 1099-NEC from the company by 31 January.
Not by itself. Independent contractors under a proper agreement aren't employees and don't create a US office. A US employee, a US office or a US agent with authority to sign for the company could, so ask an accountant before any of those.
Ready when you are
Answer the questions. We do the filing.
It takes about four minutes. You see the whole order, state fee included, before anything is charged.
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