Is my foreign-owned Delaware LLC really exempt from BOI now, or am I reading outdated summaries backwards?
I am in the Netherlands and have a Delaware LLC that I formed in the U.S., not a foreign company registered into the U.S. I kept seeing BOI content everywhere in 2024, so I assumed I would have to file eventually. But more recent summaries say domestic companies are now exempt and only certain foreign companies registered in the U.S. still need to file.
This feels too dramatic a change to trust without checking. Is the current 2026 position really that a U.S.-formed foreign-owned LLC usually does not file BOI anymore?
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