Why open a US LLC?

Studio Panama Italia guarantees the legally compliant incorporation of a US LLC and other companies in the United States. To understand how to open an LLC in the US, including how to open an LLC in Delaware, simply read our pages carefully. Opening an LLC in the United States means creating an American limited liability company. This also means registering for VAT in the US.

Starting an LLC or corporation in the United States, such as registering a Delaware LLC or opening an LLC in Florida, is an option that opens up the vast North American market. The North American or US corporate sector is currently the largest in the world.

With Studio Panama Italia you can request without traveling: EIN For your LLC and ITIN, for your natural person

A multi-trillion-dollar industry that boasts a virtually indestructible economic weapon in the services, consumer, prosumer, IT, logistics, and banking sectors, unmatched in size, flows, and movements by any other country or macro-area on the planet. Even the European single market, which exceeds the American one in terms of flows, is inextricably linked economically to the North American one.

The American corporate sector is also expanding by integrating other macro areas of the region through various free trade agreements, such as Mexico and Canada, for example, united by the USMCA Free Trade Agreement, which replaced the previous free trade agreement between the three countries on July 1, 2020. LLCs, Corporations and LLPs are the companies that normally do business in the USA. LLCs are the most widely used structures when it comes to sole ownership.

Opening an LLC and territorial taxation

US LLC taxation is interesting. Opening a US LLC and other companies in the United States is a process that opens up new career opportunities. Having a presence in this corporate sector is vital for entrepreneurs who export or offer services to or from the US to the world. Opening a US company such as an LLC is particularly advantageous for those who generate revenue outside the US.

By legally taking advantage of the Territorial Taxation, an Italian or foreign citizen can legally open an LLC in the United States as a non-resident foreigner and make his LLC foreign-owned, legally request an EIN and automatically open a bank account in the USA by taking advantage of various interesting situations.

American companies such as LLCs or Corporations are required to file an EIN for legal, due diligence, banking, asset management, and IRS reporting purposes. Opening a US company without an EIN, such as opening a US LLC without an EIN, will result in wasted money and your LLC or any other US company becoming unusable and unusable.

Opening an American LLC and operational benefits :

• Opening a company in the United States as a US LLC allows you to benefit from the American tax relief, which means that the company is required to file simple tax return forms every year on any turnover generated outside the US.
• Opening a company in the US as a US corporation or LLC also includes opening a bank account for the US company. Excellent business tools with a strong technological background and exemplary customer support.
• Owning a company in the United States such as an LLC allows you to operate candidly. You will have a position in the whitelisted market through the presence of a respected North American company.

*Legal Council: an American LLC can also act as an international holding company by operating with multiple international companies. The American LLC works very well from the company of Panama, Seychelles, Belize, Nevis, Hong Kong, Cook Islands. Visit the page dedicated to US services for you in Italy

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Opening an LLC in the United States is the fastest way to sell in the US with limited liability and clear rules. It works even if you don't live there: prepare the documentation, obtain an EIN, and start banking compliantly. Here you'll find only what you really need: when it's convenient, requirements, choosing a state, operational steps, formalities, pricing, and frequently asked questions. No unrealistic promises: follow the method and get off to a clean start, without unnecessary obstacles.

Why choose a US LLC

• Limits personal liability.
• Flexible tax (pass-through by default).
• Credibility with US customers, marketplaces, and partners.
• Fast process and standard documents.
• Remotely manageable with standard KYC/AML procedures.

When it is not a good idea to open an LLC

• If you sell steadily in one or more states and don't want to manage local tax registrations (nexus).
• If you seek "absolute" public anonymity: today there are obligations of transparency towards the authorities.
• If you don't want to take care of minimal accounting and deadlines.

Minimum requirements for opening an LLC (even for non-residents)

• Registered Agent in the chosen state.
• EIN for tax and banking reporting; ITIN if required.
• Nexus assessment for state sales/services taxes.

American States Compared in Simple Words

Delaware: Superior governance, widely used by investors and holding companies operating in multiple states.
Wyoming: Streamlined recurring costs, convenient and straightforward management for SMEs and e-commerce businesses.
New Mexico: Reduced state requirements, suitable for simple structures or "lightweight" holding companies.
Florida: Useful if you operate/hire in Florida or want local banking relationships.

Operational steps to incorporate an American company

1. Select the state and verify the name.

2. We file the documents and appoint the Registered Agent.

3. We prepare the Operating Agreement (even single-member).

4. We require the EIN and, if needed, the ITIN.

5. We open bank/fintech account and payment gateways if eligible.

6. We set up accounting and deadline calendars.

Bank accounts and payments

• US banks: Requires EIN, corporate documents, and KYC; sometimes physical presence.
• Fintech/online: Remote onboarding with rigorous KYC; eligibility by industry.
• Payment gateways: Active only if the business complies with their policies.

Essential requirements for managing an LLC

• EIN for tax and banking purposes.
• Sales tax/economic nexus: If you exceed thresholds in a state, register and pay.
• In some cases, LLCs with foreign ownership may require specific IRS reporting.
• Clean bookkeeping and accounting: We provide templates and checklists.

Prices Studio Panama Italy

• Opening a Delaware LLC: $800 one-time fee.
• Opening an LLC in Wyoming, New Mexico, Florida, and other states: $550 one-time fee.
Note: Annual state fees, Registered Agent, and optional services are separate depending on the state and solution chosen.

Quick FAQs about LLCs in the USA

Can I open an LLC if I don't live in the US?
Yes. Everything can be done remotely, while complying with KYC/AML procedures and tax obligations.

Do you need an EIN to open an account?
Yes, for traditional banks; fintechs require it for full operation.

Which is better: Wyoming or Delaware?
Wyoming is streamlined and inexpensive; Delaware is preferred by multi-state investors and holding companies. New Mexico has fewer formalities.

Am I tax-free with an LLC?
It depends on where you sell (nexus), the type of business, and your personal situation. In some cases, registration and filings are required even without direct U.S. tax.

How long does it take?
Setup takes 1–5 business days, EIN takes 1–7 days, account takes 3–10 days depending on your bank/fintech and profile.

What does our service include?
Profile analysis, status selection, procedures and filing, Operating Agreement, EIN, banking assistance, compliance checklist, and deadline calendar.

Opening Delaware LLC and US bank account online

You can open an American LLC like opening a Delaware LLC or opening an LLC in Wyoming or New Mexico or any other North American state and simultaneously open a corporate bank account for the American company in a real American bank account at Bank of America rather than Chase or Wells Fargo.

But how do you open an American LLC and a U.S. bank account online and remotely from Italy? To open a U.S. LLC with a registered bank account, you must appoint us as managers of the LLC you are opening.

The bank must be able to have a manager of the LLC sign. If this form of account opening isn't suitable or comfortable for you, you'll have to travel to the US and waste 15 minutes of your vacation to sign the US bank account opening form. If you decide to open an account with us, we accept:

• San Francisco, California, Union Square 94102 USA
•  Miami Beach, Florida, Lincoln Road, 33139 USA

Which American LLC to open : Delaware, Wyoming, New Mexico ..

When it comes to opening an American LLC, which LLC to open? We have selected for you the most suitable LLCs in the US corporate landscape. They are also the ones that are most requested for obvious reasons of practicality, anonymity and flexibility. The most interesting are Delaware LLCs, Wyoming LLCs , New Mexico LLCs and Florida LLCs

How is an American LLC structured?

An American LLC is made up of various documents, many of which are optional and flexible, i.e. modifiable at will once your USA LLC is opened.

An American LLC consists of an Incorporation number

A USA LLC has an incorporation number called a Filing Number, this number identifies your company with the State of Opening and is needed to pay for renewals with the State if required, apply for licenses or DBAs, Doing Business As.

An American LLC consists of a Certificate of Organization

Once incorporated, an American LLC receives from the State in which it was incorporated a Certificate of Organization or Certificate of Organization, which declares who is the founder, the organizer and the Resident Agent.

For the Statute of Organization it is necessary:

A US LLC may have an operating agreement

Better known as an Operating Agreement, although optional it is the more important document. An LLC operating agreement is a legal document that defines the rights and responsibilities of each LLC member and describes the operating terms of the organization. Many states require LLCs to have an operating agreement. While an operating agreement is not required in all states, we recommend that you have one.

A US LLC requires a Resident Agent or Legal Representative

A resident agent is a third party, registered in the same state in which the business is established. The resident agent is appointed to receive and send official documents on your behalf, such as filings, official government notifications, tax forms, and notice of lawsuits.

If you incorporate in the state where you live, you can be the resident agent for the business yourself, otherwise you will need to use for example us acting as the US resident agent.

Many cannot travel to the US to open a US bank account with an American LLC. You can easily open your own American LLC account via Wise or Online banks such as Mercury.com.

POS Online for physical cards 

If you need to use credit cards, therefore to swipe them or use the PAN data of a customer's credit card, by opening a bank account on Mercury or a physical American bank account you can use Stripe or the Payment App which relies on Stripe for transform your smartphone into an unlimited POS terminal on which to pass credit cards globally.

American LLC and accounting compliance

What tax obligations does the American LLC have?

The opening of an American LLC is just the tip of the iceberg of a wider process. federal obligations and may or may not have state tax obligations (local or in the state in which the LLC is incorporated). We recall that the United States is a federation of States, each independent from the other in terms of taxation and each one has or less taxes and charges that are not present or are present in a different way in others.

For businesses, opening a company in the United States does not mean not paying taxes. It means incorporating a legal entity governed by the laws of that state and, therefore, proceeding to pay federal taxes, as in any other state. Furthermore, in the United States state taxation is based on economic presence (sales and customers, even without physical presence in the state), the so-called economic nexus . Among the examples, in California this criterion is considered for every company that has a turnover exceeding 200,000 dollars.

At the Federal Level, all LLCs, regardless of the state in which they are opened, are required by law to file forms with the IRS before the end of the tax year. For US Foreign Owned LLCs, that is, those 100% owned by foreigners who are not residents of the United States, LLCs are required to prepare and send forms 5472 and 1120 to the IRS, Internal Revenue Service.

Submitting these forms does not trigger any federal tax or accounting obligations, and therefore does not generate any tax collection. It is merely a bureaucratic and financial requirement with no tax implications. We provide accounting services for this purpose upon request. Opening a US LLC therefore requires completing IRS Forms 5472 and 1120, but never requires paying taxes in the US because the LLC is foreign-owned.

We always recommend that anyone wishing to open an American LLC obtain an American ITIN in addition to the EIN, as this simplifies various American bureaucratic procedures when it comes to solving or completing corporate paperwork (mortgages, loans, credit cards, etc.).

Consider opening an American LLC only the first step of many others to add to the "corporate package" to be 100% sure of putting you in the best conditions to work without problems in the future.

If you are interested in American LLCs, contact us. Furthermore, do not forget that operating offshore requires being suitably covered with an adequate new tax residence in a country with territorial taxation such as a Residence in Panama or a Residence in Paraguay.

Also consider a company in Panama

When determining how to start an LLC, there are several types of LLCs to choose from. Knowing the LLC structures available is essential to selecting a business model that aligns as closely as possible with the nature of your business and the way you intend it to operate. These LLC structures include:

• Single Member LLC : This LLC is owned and operated by one person. While similar to a sole proprietorship, this LLC offers additional tax benefits and liability protection.
• Multimember LLC: Standard LLC with more than one member, often split into manager-managed or member-managed entities.
• L3C: These entities, also known as “limited liability companies,” act as a bridge between non-profit LLCs and for-profit LLCs where the business cause remains the primary focus rather than the earnings.
• Series LLCs : Series LLCs are tiered corporate structures where the topmost LLC owns a series of lower-level LLCs through unrestricted segregation. Each LLC in the series operates mostly independently of one another; their assets are also mostly segregated.
• PLLC: A specialist LLC, this type of business education is only available to certain licensed professionals.
• Restricted LLC : Restricted LLCs are not taxed during the first 10 years of incorporation. Likewise, they cannot make distributions to members. It must be indicated in the articles of organization that the LLC will be limited.

When naming your LLC, you must be careful not to name it vaguely similar to other existing LLCs in the state where you want to open it. You can verify the existence or otherwise of the name you have chosen on the site in the database of the state you have chosen for incorporation.

NAICS extension

To open an LLC, you need to know your corresponding NAICS number, which Canada, the United States and Mexico join and stands for the North American Industrial Classification System.

It consists of a 6-digit code and the code depends on the type of business the LLC will operate. From 2022, when opening an LLC it is mandatory to provide the correct code to us during the opening phase. You can get the code for free here

To open a company in the United States with Studio Panama Italia, physically present in the United States and duly registered in the register of Resident Agents and Organizers of American companies in the United States, choose the state and write to us at info@studiopanamaitalia.com. Opening an LLC is a serious step, to be done with certified, tested, experienced and legally authorized personnel. If you are in any doubt about setting up an American LLC please it is vital for you to seek a paid consultation with us. At the fully refundable cost on your first order with us, of 199 EUR you will be able to dispel all doubts about it.

Having a US address isn't necessary in some specific cases. You need real proof that you live or work there. But what if your business is online, or you've opened an LLC remotely and have a US address purchased, perhaps through our or other services?

You need to have a real, not a fake, user account to pay and receive a real paper invoice or bill (PDFs are not used in the US), to give it to whoever requests it, such as banks, credit unions, and the government. A foreign address and resident agent office can also be used for routine communications with the state and banks.

To access a legitimate Amazon FBA account, you need to do so through a US LLC. Amazon greatly supports international users in setting up a US LLC to run their online store via Amazon FBA. Amazon FBA allows you to open a store quickly in just a few hours with a US LLC, and is typically up and running within 8 to 24 hours of registering your LLC with Amazon FBA.

Amazon strongly supports the use of a US LLC to conduct commercial trading through its platforms for obvious reasons:

• Limited Liability, only present in favor of the seller when operating through a US LLC
• Tax reduction, only present when operating an Amazon FBA via LLC USA
• Simplification of annual tax payment and collection forms, which can only be obtained through the registration of an American LLC in Amazon FBA
• Privacy on the part of the seller, who can sell his products on the store through Amazon FBA with an American LLC and not put his name and surname on the Amazon store
• Offer a highly professional presentation and image of your Amazon FBA store, only through the use of the name of the American LLC
• Accessibility and greater ease of being accepted by the Amazon FBA program when using a US LLC
• You pay zero taxes using a US LLC on Amazon FBA in many cases.

It therefore goes without saying that the LLC + Amazon FBA combination is the ideal and correct choice for starting a business through Amazon.

All American LLCs are welcome by Amazon FBA, without particular preferences, you can rely on our experience, proven over the years, as a point of reference for those who invest in Amazon FBA and do so through our tested American LLCs.

To open a Stripe account for your LLC, you'll need to have the LLC set up according to the legal and banking standards required to be accepted by Stripe. Not all LLCs are accepted by Stripe, and this depends on who opens it and how.

Once you have formed the LLC that will open a Stripe account according to the required parameters, you will need to open a Stripe account for your LLC:

• EIN that we provide in all our services
• A real American physical address that we provide
• An American telephone number for only some American states
• Passport
• A website already online that shows the nature of your services
• An account to connect it to in this case American, like Mercury

Opening a Stripe account for your American LLC is particularly simple once you meet all the requirements listed above, requirements that we officially provide to all our customers.

Studio Panama Italia offers in the field the best platform available today to operate blindly and without hesitation, doubts or perplexities to become a resident in Portugal through the well-known NHR program, Non Habitual Resident Program; incorporating our American LLCs designed specifically for the occasion.

The Portuguese NHR program allows individuals to establish tax residency in Portugal while benefiting from reduced income tax rates for the first 10 years. With the NHR Portugal program, you are not required to meet any minimum or maximum number of days in Portugal to qualify for residency. You will be able to optimize your NHR in Portugal by establishing an American LLC.

The aim of the NHR program is to attract investors, professionals and high net worth individuals to contribute to Portugal's economy and culture.

When you decide to join Portugal's NHR program, you'll obtain non-habitual resident status in Portugal, and you can do so with a U.S. LLC. By becoming a NHR resident in Portugal with a U.S. LLC, you can benefit from a flat income tax rate of 20% on qualifying income for 10 years instead of paying higher taxes in your home country.

This flat income tax rate is lower than the tax rates typically imposed by Portugal and is also significantly lower than US tax rates, in the case of particularly high incomes.

When you optimize for non-habitual residence in Portugal (NHR) and do so with a US LLC, you can enjoy tax exemptions on certain types of foreign income, including passive income such as dividends, interest, and rental income, which can significantly reduce your overall tax burden.

Every little bit adds up, and the ability to save or reinvest dividends, interest, and even rental income can help you build wealth and financial well-being much faster. The best LLCs for NHR Portugal are New Mexico LLCs . Contact us to get started.