General

You have built a high-quality product or service, you have strong traction at home and you have learned from numerous strategies when building...

The conversations were part of our research into how European-based B2C businesses can expand abroad. The comments weren’t always positive...

Key terminology: Option — The opportunity for employees to purchase a fixed number of shares at a fixed price at a fixed point in the future;...

How is insurance different in the US? The UK has one of the most established insurance markets in the world, with Lloyds of London arguably...

The importance of IP An e-commerce business, whose strength is largely in its ability to execute sharply with little unique underlying technology,...

Reporting & Payment To pay for a local provider to complete a federal and State tax return can cost from $800 for a “one man band”,...

Tax in the US operates at Federal, State and in many cases district level. Getting tax guidance in place should be seen as a key part of the...

  US taxation can be roughly divided into:   Sales Tax Sales tax is a pass-through tax similar to VAT in the UK in that a merchant must collect...

When to think about US incorporation? Nearly all companies view setting up a US legal entity as one of the first milestones in entering the US...

Professional Employment Organisations or “PEOs” Professional Employment Organisations, known in the US as “PEOs”, enable businesses...

What is transfer pricing? Transfer pricing is the general term for the pricing of cross‐border, intra‐firm transactions between related...

In the first part of this series on hiring technical talent in the US we shared the insights from our research in to some of the factors that...