Wall 01Sponsors
A W-9 and a company to pay
Sponsors' finance teams want a W-9 and a company to pay.
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A US LLC for YouTubers, podcasters and creators outside the United States
Platforms pay creators almost anywhere. Creators form a US company when sponsors want to sign with a company, when merchandise and courses need a payments account, or when the payout bank is the problem.
- Usually
- Structure
- Wyoming LLC
- Plan
- Starter
- On the day
- $391.40
- Every year
- $179
01Why a US company
What it does for content creators.
Ad revenue, sponsorships, affiliate income, courses and merchandise all arrive from different places, and a US LLC gives them one place to land. Sponsors and agencies sign with a company and pay a company's invoice. Course platforms and a merchandise store need a processor that serves the company's country, and a US company is on every processor's list.
The company also separates the channel from you. Contracts, trademarks and the bank account belong to it, which is what a manager, a partner or a buyer will expect later.
02What stands in the way
Three things in the way, and one way through.
Wall 02Processors
Merch and courses need a working account
Payment processors for merchandise and courses may not serve the country you live in.
Wall 03Platforms
Withholding that only a treaty lowers
Platform tax interviews withhold on US-source income, and only a tax treaty lowers the rate.
The door
A US LLC, with its EIN and a US bank account.
One company, one EIN and one bank account, which is what everything above asks for.
03The honest part
What to know before you order.
01
Withholding and treaties
YouTube treats earnings from US viewers as US-source royalties and withholds tax on them unless your tax form claims a treaty rate. A single-member LLC owned by someone abroad is looked through to its owner, so the form is a W-8 and the treaty is your country's. Forming a US LLC doesn't change the withholding by itself. The treaty does, or doesn't.
02
Content made at home is foreign-source
A company with no US office or staff, run from where you live, has no US trade or business, and most creator LLCs owe no US income tax. A foreign-owned single-member LLC files Form 5472 with a pro forma Form 1120 every year, even a year with no income. It reports what moved between you and the company, and missing it carries a $25,000 penalty.
The plan that fits
Starter, usually.
The company is simple and most of the income is platform payouts. Starter covers the company, the EIN, the operating agreement and the calendar.
StarterFits content creators
For your first company, when it needs to exist and nothing more yet.
To start
$391.40 once
Includes the $102.40 Wyoming fee · then $179 a year
04Questions
Questions from content creators.
If yours is not here, email us at [email protected] before you order.
No. A tax treaty between the United States and your country reduces withholding on US-source royalties, claimed on a W-8. The LLC is looked through to you for that. A US LLC helps with sponsors, processors and banking, not withholding.
Yes. The company sends an invoice, gives the sponsor a W-9, and gets paid into its US bank account by ACH.
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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