A self-study PDF. Not legal or tax advice.
Foreign-owned US LLCs · Instant PDF
24 pages. Open it on your phone the minute you pay.
A visual walkthrough for non-resident owners who want to see how the pages are laid out — not a CPA on call.
Written by Apex Compliance Labs, based on IRS instructions for Forms 5472 and 1120, and BEA instructions for BE-13.
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The usual path
You form the LLC. You get the EIN. It feels done. Then 5472, 1120, and BE-13 keep coming up — and nobody sits you down with the actual pages.
This manual is that sequence. Short on purpose. A PDF you finish — not a firm that files for you. Apex Compliance Labs wrote it from the published IRS instructions for 5472 and 1120 (BE-13 from the BEA).
Get instant access — $29.99A line-by-line walkthrough of 1120, 5472, and BE-13 — in a 24-page PDF.
LLC name, EIN, formation date, assets — and which income lines stay empty on this kind of form.
Each box from Part I through Part IX: what to write, what to skip, and which Yes/No boxes to check.
Where capital contributions go, where owner draws go, what to put if the amount is $0, and the one-page statement that has to travel with the form.
Which boxes to mark, plus formation date, starting capital, home country, and the Member signature.
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I kept seeing Form 5472 everywhere and still didn’t know which lines were mine. This walked the form in order. I finally knew what to type and what to leave empty.
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Nobody told me the 1120 for a foreign-owned LLC is mostly a cover sheet. The header, the blank income lines, the Member signature — that part alone saved me a lot of second-guessing.
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I had never heard of BE-13 until after I formed the LLC. The guide treated it as its own filing, not an IRS form, which is what I needed.
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Short, specific, and it matches the actual boxes on the page. I used it as a checklist while I filled 5472, not as another article to save and ignore.
How the manual works
You look at that section of the form on the page, then you see what belongs in those boxes.
First the identification header, then the income lines you leave blank, then the Member signature at the bottom.
Parts I through IX in order. Each section sits next to the boxes it belongs to, so you know what to write and what to skip.
The header, the Claim for Exemption, then the remaining fields.
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Apex Compliance Labs. The 5472 and 1120 chapters are based on the IRS instructions for those forms. BE-13 is based on Bureau of Economic Analysis instructions. It is a self-study PDF, not legal or tax advice.
No. You get a PDF. We don’t prepare forms, file them, or act as your lawyer or accountant.
No. You look at each section of the form, then you see what belongs in those boxes. If you can follow a checklist, you can use it.
Short by design. Built to finish, not to impress a bookshelf. It is 24 pages long.
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