US Company
US Tax Compliance Calendar for a Foreign-Owned LLC
Compliance is the boring list that keeps the charter alive: Form 5472 or Form 1065, the state report or franchise tax, registered-agent renewal, and sales tax if you crossed a nexus line. We track the dates we are hired to track. We do not babysit a company we have never seen.
Federal and state are separate clocks
The IRS date for Form 5472 is not the Wyoming anniversary-month report. Delaware franchise tax is due 1 June. New Mexico has no annual report. Mixing those sentences is how a company looks “fine with the IRS” and still goes void at the state.
What we will file
The same set listed on US tax filing: 5472 + pro forma 1120, 1065 + K-1s, 1040-NR when needed, 8804/8805 when withholding applies, state reports, and sales-tax registration after a nexus review. State reports start at $99 plus the state fee.
Who this is for
Year-two founder
The LLC worked. Nobody told you about the second April.
Multi-state seller
You might owe more than the formation state. That is a nexus review, not a guess.
Partnership
More than one member. Form 1065, not a 5472 copy-paste.
Agent about to expire
A lapsed registered agent is how mail — and lawsuits — miss you.
What you get
One calendar
Federal, state, and agent renewal on dates we can point to.
Reminders we were hired for
If you are on a filing engagement, we nudge before the deadline.
Cleanup path
Missed years are a project. We quote them instead of hiding them.
Written scope
You will know whether sales tax is in or out of the engagement.
How the process works
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Inventory the entity
State, members, fiscal year, last filings.
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Build the year list
What is due next and what is already late.
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File what we quoted
No surprise forms without a new price.
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Return copies
You keep the PDFs. So do we, for the years you hired us.
What we need from you
- Formation documents and EIN.
- Registered-agent details and anniversary month.
- Bank activity for the year.
- Any notices already sitting in a drawer.
Read this before you start
- We cannot file a state report for a company whose agent we do not know.
- Sales tax is state-by-state. Marketplace collection does not always end registration.
- If the charter is already void, revival is a separate state process.
Common mistakes
Paying only the registered agent and calling it done
The agent receives paper. They do not file your 5472 unless you hired that.
Using last year’s PDF with a new date
Transactions change. So do instructions.
Ignoring a state email because it looked like spam
Annual-report mail is easy to miss if you never set a real inbox.
Assuming New Mexico rules apply in Wyoming
They do not. Read the state you actually formed in.
FAQ
Scriplit LLC is a Wyoming company that helps non-residents form US LLCs and prepare US information and tax filings. We are not a CPA firm or a law firm. This page is general information, not advice for your facts. Home-country tax, treaties, and your actual activity can change the result.
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Next steps on Scriplit
Send the anniversary month and the last return you filed
If you have never filed, say that. Cleanup and a current year can live in one quote.