Never miss a filing you did not know about.
A US company creates filing obligations from the day it exists, whether or not it trades. Miss one and the penalties arrive long before anyone tells you what you did wrong. This plan puts the whole calendar in someone else’s hands.
What's included
- Federal (IRS) tax filing prepared and submitted
- State tax filing for your state of formation
- Annual state report filed so the company stays in good standing
- 1:1 consultation with a licensed tax professional
- Expedited EIN, up to two weeks faster
- Bookkeeping and invoicing software bundled in
- Registered agent and US business address
- Estimated quarterly taxes on the full back-office plan
What it costs
Plus your state’s filing fee. Includes everything in the formation plan, so if you are forming and know you will need filings, starting here costs less than adding it later.
The three that catch people
Form 5472
A foreign-owned single-member LLC must file Form 5472 with a pro-forma 1120 every year, even at zero income. The penalty is $25,000 per form, per year. This is the single most expensive thing founders miss. How the penalty actually works.
Annual state reports
Separate from tax. Miss them and the state can administratively dissolve your company, usually without you noticing until something else fails.
Zero revenue is not zero obligation
“We did not trade this year” is not an exemption. The filings are still due, and the penalties still apply.
Built to work with the platforms you already use
Especially relevant if you're in
Not a generic country list -- these are the specific markets where this service solves a real, documented problem.
A large freelancer base means a lot of foreign-owned LLCs at real risk of missing the $25,000 Form 5472 filing.
Total Stripe blockage pushed many founders to form fast without a filing plan -- the LLC exists before the compliance calendar does.
Mercury's hard block means more founders self-manage their US company, which is exactly when a missed state report goes unnoticed.
Everything else your US company needs
Bookkeeping
Categorised transactions, connected bank feeds, invoices out the door, reports you can hand a lender.
Registered agent
Required in every state. Yours is included, and your mail is scanned to you.
E-commerce analytics
Shopify and Amazon sales, orders and ad spend in one dashboard, next to your books.
EIN without an SSN
The biggest blocker for founders outside the US. We run the SS-4 process end to end.
US company for e-commerce
The entity, EIN and address Amazon, Shopify Payments and Stripe expect before they verify a seller.
Sales tax & nexus
Economic nexus and marketplace facilitator rules, tracked and filed so a threshold crossed in a state you have never visited does not turn into a notice.
US LLC for Amazon FBA
Formed the way Seller Central actually verifies, with the right tax form from day one.
US LLC for Shopify
Built for the operational-presence check behind Shopify Payments, not just a certificate and an EIN.
US LLC for dropshipping
Wyoming-first, priced for a business with no US inventory and a real answer on nexus.
US LLC for TikTok Shop
The domestic-track entity, EIN and bank account TikTok Shop's cross-border track does not give you.
US LLC for content creators
The privacy, banking and liability separation an individual creator account does not have.
Form the company
LLC or C-Corp in any of the 50 states, with the EIN and registered agent included.
How this works. NameMarshal is not a law firm or an accountancy practice, and nothing on this page is legal or tax advice. Tax filing and compliance are delivered through NameMarshal's formation and filing network. Foreign-owned US LLCs generally have to file Form 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120 every year, even with no income, and the penalty for missing it is steep. Ask us and we will point you at someone licensed to handle it.