Taking Your Business to the USA

Selling, hiring and living in America comes down to doing the right things in the right order. This workbook gives European founders the sequence: entry model, Texas, bank, visa, federal and state tax, sales tax and payroll, plus the UK and Irish home side, with worksheets, worked examples on 2026 figures and a twelve-month plan you can follow.

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What the guide contains

• The entry model decision table comparing five ways into the US market, with the permanent establishment test and the corporation or LLC question for a European parent
• The European passport table for the E-1 and E-2 visas, the UK residence condition, and an E-2 versus L-1 decision table with an investment worked example
• Worked examples on 2026 figures for the Texas franchise tax, a dividend from a US subsidiary to a UK parent, Texas sales tax and the cost of a first US hire
• The US compliance calendar with every federal and Texas filing, its due date and a worksheet to assign each one to a named person
• The UK and Irish home layer: residence day-count worksheets, the five-year rules on shares, CFC and dividend treatment of the parent, and social security postings
• A twelve-month plan, the bank and visa document files and the twelve most expensive mistakes European founders make in their first US year