Cross-Border Accountant for Foreign Owners

A foreign owner of a U.S. entity carries filing obligations that do not depend on whether the business made money. Reporting is triggered by ownership and by transactions between the owner and the entity, and the penalties attach to the missed form rather than to unpaid tax. We handle the EIN, the ITIN work as a Certifying Acceptance Agent, the bookkeeping, the tax elections and the annual reporting that keeps the structure clean, and we work alongside your attorney or registered agent on the entity documents themselves.

The reporting rests on records most owners were never told to keep. Money you put into the entity, money you take out, expenses you pay personally on its behalf and anything the entity does for a company you also own are all transactions between related parties, and they belong on the return whether or not they look like business activity. We keep that ledger during the year, in dollars, so the filing is assembled rather than reconstructed.

Property adds another layer. When a foreign person sells U.S. real estate, withholding is handled at closing, and the paperwork that reduces it works best in motion before the deal settles: filed early it keeps the money from being withheld at all, filed after closing it only gets you a refund once the IRS acts. We work with owners in other countries and other time zones every week, in English or Spanish, so the questions get answered while the decision is still open rather than after the wire has already gone out.