The company is the easy part. The EIN and the bank are the project.

Delaware, Nevada, Texas and Wyoming file in one to three days, and Alberta the same. California is one to five days and an Ontario LP two to five business days. For any US company the EIN then adds 2-8 weeks on top.

2-8 weeks when there is no SSN or ITIN behind the application. It cannot be applied for until the company exists, and nothing downstream - bank, payroll, payment processor - moves before it arrives. Anyone promising it in days is guessing.

Sometimes, and not reliably. A non-resident owner with no US address, no US staff and no US customers is a hard file for most US banks, and several still want the signatory in person. We tell you which banks are realistic for your business before you form anything, because the answer sometimes changes the plan.

Mostly on cost, on privacy and on where you actually do business. Wyoming is the cheapest to keep at $60 a year with no public member register; Delaware costs a flat $300 and is what investors expect; Nevada is dearer and puts officers on a public list; Texas charges no annual report fee. If you operate in one state and file in another, expect to register in both.

No. It means one line of the bill is zero. Federal tax follows the owner and the entity type, and the state where you actually do business can tax you regardless of where you filed - California's test starts at roughly $700k of California sales.

It depends on whether the profit is effectively connected with a US trade or business, and on whether any of the income is US-source and subject to withholding. A Delaware LLC owned by a non-resident with no US-source business can legitimately owe nothing; the same company with US staff or US-performed work usually cannot. This is advice that has to be given on your facts, and we give it in writing.

It is a transparent one, which is not the same thing. The LP pays nothing in Canada when the partners are non-resident and there is no Canadian-source income, but the profit is taxed in the partners' own countries. If that is a good outcome for you, it depends entirely on where you are resident. An Alberta corporation is the opposite - a Canadian tax resident taxed on worldwide income at 23% combined.

Two to four weeks and then the RFC, which is the real bottleneck - the company cannot invoice without it and the SAT sets that timeline. Tax is 30% with a mandatory 10% employee profit share on top and IVA at 16%, or 8% in the border zone. It is an operating market with an operating market's obligations, not a formation product.

Because you are vetted before you are registered. An exempted company takes one to two weeks through the Bermuda Monetary Authority, it is not a remote sign-up, and substance is required for relevant activities. There is no income tax and the 15% reaches only groups above €750M. It is the premium shelf and it is priced that way - the right answer for reinsurance, cat bonds and funds, and the wrong answer for a small trading company.

Small amounts: from $60 in Wyoming, $300 flat for a Delaware LLC, about $350 or $650 in Nevada, no annual report fee in Texas, an $800 minimum in California even in a loss year. Forgetting is common precisely because the sums are small, and an administratively dissolved company costs many times the missed fee to revive, assuming the bank stays with you while you do it.