Can I sign the pro forma 1120 abroad and fax the Form 5472 package from outside the U.S.?
I live in Dubai and will not be in the United States before the filing deadline. My preparer says the foreign-owned LLC filing package may need to be faxed to the IRS under the special Form 5472 rules, and that made me worry about whether my signature location matters or whether the whole package has to be physically mailed from inside the U.S.
This sounds basic, but I want the workflow to be clean. If the instructions already let foreign-owned U.S. disregarded entities use a dedicated fax or mailing lane, I want to know what records I should keep so the filing does not become vulnerable later just because the signing and transmission happened from abroad.
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