I was audited by the State of Hawaii one year, because one of my companies had registered to file a bid with one of their agencies, and then they didn't get a business privilege tax return from us the next year. Responding to the audit took 45 minutes.
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General flavor of the interaction: "How much revenue did you have in Hawaii last year?" *SQL query* $180. "Wait, what. OK, you're done."
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In general, exuding professionalism will make many, many interactions with government (and other bureaucracies) go better for you. You want to be polite, compliant, and armed-to-the-teeth with well-organized records. And, again, this is why you pay your professional advisors.
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Accountants generate immediate ROI at any scale of business larger than a bake sale. My Japanese accountants, for example, caught that I had filed an exemption from consumption tax because all of my sales were exports of software. That was not an optimal filing.
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The optimal filing was to file a consumption tax return, saying that we had $0 of sales subject to consumption tax. And then claim back all the consumption tax our business had paid (on business expenses). Resulting in a tax refund of several times what I paid accountants.
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"Wait you can get radically different results from the same facts with just tiny changes in what you type on your return?" You sound very surprised, hypothetical person who probably has programmed before.
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If we are not an atlas company, how do we become one?
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You can incorporate an Atlas company here: https://stripe.com/atlas We do not yet have a way to Atlas-ize existing companies (except by incorporating a new entity).
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Did you have an umbrella Corp or four separate ones for your businesses?
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I had: One LLC (Kalzumeus Software) for almost everything I did personally. One LLC for Appointment Reminder, since HIPAA regulation is scary and I wanted that risk firewalled off. One LLC with my co-founders for Starfighter. One G.K. (a Japanese LLC) for doing payroll for SF.
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