U.S. reporting for cross-border businesses.
U.S. tax support for businesses that operate across a border — European companies with activity in the United States, and U.S. owners with interests in companies abroad. We handle the reporting that comes with those structures.
Trading across a border adds a reporting layer that rarely maps neatly onto either country's accounts. A structure that is unremarkable locally can carry U.S. filing consequences for the company, its owners, or both, and those consequences are easier to plan around than to unwind.
Structures are easiest to work with while they are still being drawn — the reporting question is worth asking early, not after the fact.
We work alongside your existing accountants rather than replacing them: they keep the local books, and we take the U.S. side. That usually means preparing the informational returns the ownership structure calls for, reviewing how existing arrangements are reported, and translating between two sets of terminology that use similar words for different things.
What the reporting involves varies a great deal with the structure, so we look at it properly first.
Where cross-border reporting comes in
Foreign corporation reporting
The informational return that accompanies a U.S. interest in a company outside the United States. We work out what the ownership picture requires and prepare the filing to match.
Expanding into the United States
For businesses opening U.S. operations. We set out the federal filings the chosen structure brings with it, so the reporting is understood before it is inherited.
Partnership and small-business filings
For entrepreneurs and partners operating abroad. We prepare the returns the arrangement calls for and coordinate them with what is filed locally.