My foreign corporation owns a US LLC — do I file BOTH Form 1120-F and Form 5472?
Structure: a corporation in my home country owns a US single-member LLC. The LLC is disregarded. I've been filing Form 5472 with the pro forma 1120 for the LLC every year and assumed that covered everything. A friend said the corporation itself might also owe a Form 1120-F. Is that real, or am I being double-charged for nothing?
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