Thanks for this information. The one thing that trips me up (and I have seen this in several different places today), is this:
Further, for a U.S. citizen/resident, being a 10% or greater shareholder of a foreign company may subject said U.S. citizen/ resident to certain tax and reporting requirements relative to the company, as a consequence of “Controlled Foreign Corporation” rules.
There is a form called Form 5471 that U.S. citizens would need to file with their taxes.
xhttp://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5471.pdf
So basically, if you set up an offshore company, you have to mention it on your tax return. That sort of defeats the purpose of creating the company, I think…. unless I’m missing something? Of course you always need to pay your taxes — I wasn’t suggesting anything to the contrary — the issue here is the “nature” of the business.
I suppose what you would need to do, is to diversify how you make money online, and then choose a category (for Form 5471) that is somewhat generic. Ex: “international marketing” or “advertising” or “website design” or something… I don’t know if these are real categories; I just made them up. You get the idea.
You would definitely need a good tax guy to help you fill out the form; it’s a monster!