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Staffing is the most common industry among the founders we work with, and the one where the company formation is the smallest part of the job. Forming the entity takes days. Becoming an employer the IRS, the state and your clients will all accept takes rather longer — and the part that sinks most new agencies is not compliance at all. It is cash.

Almost every guide to this question is written for Americans, where the answer is nearly always "your home state". You do not have a home state — which is the only reason the question is genuinely interesting, and why most of the advice you will find does not apply to you.

Florida costs less to start than Texas, charges no franchise tax at all, and often approves filings the same day. It also sets one hard deadline a year and attaches a USD 400 penalty to it that the state says outright it cannot waive — then dissolves the company in September if you still have not filed.

Texas is sold to non-residents on four words: no state income tax. That is true, and it is not the whole picture. There is a franchise tax, there is a report due every May whether or not you traded, and the state filing fee is one of the highest in the country. What Texas does offer, for one specific kind of founder, is something no other state can match.

The EIN is the step that gates your bank account, your payment processor and your marketplace listings — and it is where non-resident founders lose the most time. Almost always for the same reason: they were told they need an ITIN first. They do not.

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.