I wired money into the LLC and later took some back out. How do I know if that was a loan or capital for Form 5472?
I am based in Brazil and funded my Wyoming LLC several times during the year because Stripe payouts were delayed. In total I put in about $32,000 and then took back roughly $11,000 over a few months once the company cash flow stabilized. I did not sign a formal promissory note, and my bookkeeping software currently just shows everything under an owner balance account.
My concern is that Form 5472 will force a cleaner classification than my books currently have. If the money was really a loan, I should probably have loan terms. If it was capital, then the repayments may not really have been loan repayments at all. I want to understand how to approach the filing when the economics are real but the paperwork was weak.
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