Ask HN: business registration and banking as a service?
The only easy option we see now is to receive user payments to a personal Paypal or bank account, however this will require us to pay taxes for all of that money, even though we will be spending most of it on servers and will be making zero profit.
Has anybody heard of a service that would allow us to open something like a virtual business account? We would need something that will:
- allow us to get money from our users to some sort of an account;
- allow us to pay for our servers from that account;
- in case our revenue exceeds expenses, pay proper taxes for the profits we make;
- allow us to withdraw post-tax income to our personal Paypal or bank accounts. We will then deal with personal income tax just like we do on our day jobs.
Has anybody heard of a service like that? We would appreciate any other advice as well.
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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 41.7 ms ] threadThere are state and federal regulations regarding the type of service you want to provide. Don't even try to open a company without completely understanding the business and having extensive legal help.
Those type of companies have very strict guidelines and it is harder to adapt an existing company than trying to open another.
It's hard to believe that in 2013, when you can do anything online, nobody came up with such a simple service of handing payments and paying taxes for others.
You can never have an account where others can keep their money, once you receive money in, it should be yours. So, timing is factor a here.
But again, a 30 minutes talk with an advisor is not very expensive. There are offices specialized in opening such firms.