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When sending money from an office in one country to another, if this money is sent via credit/debit card payment are there any tax implications?
One of the company's co-founders is investing and to avoid high fees I suggested we use our merchant account whereby he will make a payment online and then I will receive the money in the UK. Is this ...
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Enforcing international agreements/contracts
I'm just curious about how a contract between two parties in different countries would handle breaches/consequences of said contract.
Let's say between two parties in USA and Asia. If the contract ...
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Opening a European Subsidiary in the U.S
I am an American setting up a U.S. based subsidiary office for a small Eastern European company. What are the methods I can get paid assuming the company does not have capital for straight salary and ...
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When doing business in multiple countries, how should an LLC structure bank accounts?
Should there be separate accounts open at a bank in each country? Should they all be with one bank that has branches in each country, how is that typically done?
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International tax on digital products for a US company
I'm a developer in the US (Maryland) with an LLC and an application that I would like to sell through my website, delivered via download. I do not intend to ship physical goods of any sort, my ...
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Is it viable to run and profit from a website with US audience from another country?
I'm just wondering generally whether it is viable to run, say a blog, targeted to US audience from some other country and use paypal or other online services when dealing with advertisers and other ...
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How to set your price in USD and EUR?
Many US-based companies charge the same amount in the US as in Europe: a certain item will cost 100 USD when bought in the US, and 100 EUR when bought in Europe. This really means that the European ...
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What do I Need to Know When Running a Business?
I am currently working at a company in a technical cum slightly managerial position and strongly thinking about starting a technology based company (this can happen in the next one or two years to ...
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What is the most economical way to pay people and companies in India from the US?
For the past several years we have used Paypal to pay freelancers and outsourcing companies in India. But as of March 1, 2011, it appears that Indian banking laws have changed and we can no longer use ...
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How do I handle customer support in foreign languages?
We develop and sell mobile software to consumers and are based in US. We sell software internationally but since it is not localized majority of our sales are in English speaking countries.
I'm ...
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What are the import duties in the US (if any) that have to be paid when importing semi-finished products?
We are importing semi-finished rings from China, Italy or South Africa to the USA and know that there are high import duties for finished products (but what about semi-finished products?). What are ...
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Registration of a company in Hong Kong
I have a business in Hangzhou, China. What advantages are there to registering a company in Hong Kong? What are the disadvantages? Will a company identity in Hong Kong incur a lot of costs? Is it ...
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With a BBA in Accounting + background in additional field area, would it be easier to find international angel investor?
I have a business degree along w/16 yrs Accounting experience as well as being an artist. I would like to open a company in a busy tourist area (international) selling only a customized local product ...
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International call forwarding?
What if I am traveling internationally, and want calls forwarded to my local number?
Google Voice only forwards to US phone numbers.
What service should I use to forward calls to my local number?
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Benefits and risks of taking your company internationally
I’m in the early planning phase of a funding round for a startup in NYC as a second office for a software company that is headquartered in Germany (ca. 50 employees). For a presentation I’m trying to ...
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Can I start a business in USA and work from my country?
Can I incorporate a business in USA and work from my country? Can I receive profit from my corp even when I'm not an employee, only director? I have a b1b2 visa. Is this enough to manage a business ...
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Where to incorporate an international startup?
My co-founder and I have been working on a web-related software startup for a couple of months. We are now ready to create a company / legal entity around this venture. One of us is resident in the UK ...
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How to reply to a prospective client's first inquiry in email?
I'm an English-Chinese interpreter and receive prospective clients' email inquiry about my services from time to time. However, I found quite a few clients become unresponsive after I reply to their ...
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Where to start business. I am planning to move countries - can my business when started relocate easily?
I currently live in South Africa, but I am an Australian citizen. I am planning to relocate to the UK for 2 years and then Ireland indefinitely. I am building an online business to market a product ...
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Does it matter which state I incorporate in if I don't live in the US?
I'm a US citizen, and would like to start an internet company in the US, however I don't live in the US. As my kind of work can be done virtually, a physical presence isn't necessary. Typically when ...
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Is fulfillment services a good way to lower shipping costs to US customers?
I am based in Japan and US customers are turned away by expensive international shipping rates to the US. Would it be a good idea (is it being done) for me to send some inventory to a US fulfillment ...
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What is needed to digitally sell and distribute software (videogames) to the US?
I'm currently developing a game with a few friends and have plans to sell it and distribute it worldwide via digital means. I'd like to know what I should take into consideration if I want to sell the ...
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Where should one register a company?
I'm not a US citizen but planning to start an international business. So I'm wondering if there's a benefit/profit/perspective of registering a company in a different country than mine, like US, for ...
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Should I use country-specific domain names or just .com?
I'm planning to launch a SaaS site soon in Norway and own the domain name under the Norwegian TLD (.no). If this is successful, I plan to translate the site and launch internationally. The .com domain ...
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How does one create a company name that is internationally accepted?
I'm working on an international startup, website based, for which I need to create a name (with corresponding domains for all extensions) that is internationally accepted as my service is meant to be ...
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Is there any way to predict how competent authorities will decide tax treaty issues beforehand?
I have been studying the UK/US double tax treaty and it's explanation in anticipation of the creation of a US subsidiary wholly owned by a small internet-based company in the UK. It seems as though ...
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Can an LLP be formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of a UK company?
I'm currently researching how to go about creating a US subsidiary of a UK company. One of the people involved in the business wondered if it would be possible to use an LLP to do business in the US. ...
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Form a company outside of the US?
This is definitely a different flavor of a common question. Here are the basic stats:
Online only startup -- no physical presence.
Everyone works from home.
We have 8 people in 4 countries (5 in USA ...
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Are there any genuine online job/work that can earn you some money?
This may be a vague question but i was always wondering this, of course i am not talking about spamming nor things like that but about genuine and reliable online job/work that can be done from your ...
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Doing Business in China: How to identify business opportunities?
I'm preparing to do international trade business
I will be in China.
One of the main places to look for suppliers is Alibaba. Do you have experience working with providers/suppliers found there?
I ...
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Competitor using our registered trademark in marketing materials; competitor is outside US
My name is Ryan Spahn and operate a start-up called, http://Sleep.FM - The Social Alarm Clock.
Recently via blog posts I saw a competing iPhone app(competitors are outside of US where we have not ...
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H1b financial requirements as a startup company
We're a startup company, seed funded, post users, pre revenue. We want to hire a H1B visa employee currently at another company in the US. meets all the requirements of a special occupation. any ...
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What is the best way to make my site known worldwide, not just locally?
My problem is that while I'm targeting the whole world, since this is a Greek startup, the majority of the users that sign up are Greek. The result is that they post in Greek. Later when the site gets ...
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Computers distribution and Localization of software
I am interested in knowing what languages are good to choose for localization of my photo image editing software. There are some obvious choices and some not so obvious ones.
Today I was reading ...
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Need advice on setting country-specific pricing
We're a growing Canadian software company selling online. Customers download freeware, later upgrading to a paid version.
We've received significant interest from customers and resellers ...
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How are multi-lingual websites typically done?
A friend from Italy asked about setting up a website, and I am pretty sure she wants it in multiple languages. How is that typically done? Is there a framework in the CMSes that allows language ...
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Cost-plus structure for international subsidiaries
We have several international subsidiaries setup to serve as sales offices. In setting these up we evaluated whether to set them up as resellers (they purchase the product from us and sell to ...
