Running a UK and US company?
Find out if your structure is actually right.
Most founders running a UK and a US entity won’t know there’s a structural problem until HMRC or the IRS tells them — by which point it’s usually been building for several years.
Form 5472
Penalty
BE-13 Survey
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Tax on LLC
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This
Consultation
Two companies. Two accountants. One gap that neither of them is covering.
Your UK accountant deals with HMRC, and your US accountant deals with the IRS — which means the obligations that sit between the two jurisdictions aren’t really anyone’s job to flag. That’s not a criticism of either adviser; cross-border tax is a specialism, and most practitioners work within one system.
In Anson v HMRC, a UK resident with a US company ended up facing a 67% effective tax rate on the same income — taxed once in the US and once again in the UK, with no relief available for the overlap. The case went all the way to the UK Supreme Court, and it was notable not because the situation was unusual, but because it illustrated exactly what can happen when HMRC and the IRS classify the same entity differently and no one is watching both sides at once.
“The founders who find out there’s a problem are the lucky ones — they find out before the exposure has had years to accumulate. The ones who don’t find out until HMRC raises an enquiry are the ones who wish they’d had this conversation earlier.”
Whether your structure has the same exposure depends on your specific setup. The call is thirty minutes, at no cost, and it’s the only way to know.
Thirty minutes to get a view of both sides that most founders have never had.
Whether the entity you’re running creates risk for a UK-resident owner — and what that risk looks like.
HMRC’s treatment of foreign entities doesn’t always align with the IRS’s. That difference has a cost.
Annual filings required for foreign-owned US entities — and the penalties for missing them. Most UK accountants don’t flag these.
The obligations that fall between your UK adviser and your US one — and whether any of them apply to you.
What needs to be filed in both jurisdictions, by whom, and on what timeline — with full visibility of both sides.
You leave knowing exactly where your structure stands. Not a sales pitch. A clear view of your position.
This call is for UK founders who are already operating in both jurisdictions.
LLC or C-Corp — and you’re not fully confident the structure is right.
And you suspect — or know — that nobody has a joined-up view of your full position.
With the authority to make decisions about your structure and compliance.
The structure matters most when there’s real money moving through it — and real exposure if something isn’t right.
Free cross-border compliance review
with a dual-qualified accountant.
Choose a time below. You’ll receive a confirmation with a calendar invite and a short pre-call note — this helps us make the most of your thirty minutes together.
Blane Read — Chartered Certified Accountant
Blane works exclusively with UK businesses that have, or are building, a US presence. He holds qualifications in both UK and US tax — a combination that is rare in practice, and the reason he can give a view of both sides in a single conversation.
Most founders with a dual-entity structure have two advisers who each know their side well. Blane’s value is seeing both at once — which is where the questions that matter tend to live.
US Tax Specialist
Cross-Border Planning
IRS Filing Requirements