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A Delaware C-Corp is the right structure for exactly one kind of founder, and an expensive mistake for everyone else. If it is right for you, three things decide what it costs: which franchise tax method you use, whether you file the 83(b) election inside 30 days, and whether your stock qualifies under rules that changed in July 2025.

A Wyoming LLC costs USD 100 to form and USD 60 a year to keep. That is genuinely as cheap as US company ownership gets. The parts worth understanding before you file are what its famous privacy actually covers, and the 60-day rule that dissolves companies without warning.

You can register a US company from India without a visa, a US address or a Social Security Number — and thousands of Indian founders do it every year. The part that trips people up is not the US filing. It is what India expects you to report afterwards.

Founders researching US entity types eventually run into "S-Corp" as a third option alongside LLC and C-Corp — and then discover it's not actually available to most non-US residents at all. Here's the full picture.

The answer depends entirely on one question — do you plan to raise US venture capital? Everything else follows from there. Here's the complete, honest breakdown of tax treatment, annual costs, privacy, banking and the VC requirement.