I live in France and my platform issued withholding paperwork under the LLC. Should my French accountant see all of it?
I run a U.S. LLC from France and earn ad revenue plus one small licensing arrangement. The U.S. side issued tax paperwork and withholding records that my U.S. preparer says are important, but I was not sure whether those documents would really matter to my French accountant as well.
My instinct was to send the French side only the profit-and-loss statement, but now I am worried that I am hiding the very records that explain how the U.S. side treated the income. Is that a mistake?
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