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I am in Korea and one network pays my LLC while another still pays me personally. Can I still rely on the treaty cleanly?

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October 17, 2024 2,710 views 1 answer
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I have a U.S. LLC for a creator business and live in Seoul. One ad network onboarded the LLC properly with the EIN, but an older platform still pays me personally because I never updated the profile. I keep hearing that Korea has a treaty with the U.S., so part of me assumed the mismatch did not matter too much.

But now I am worried the bigger issue is that the payee story itself is broken. Does that kind of mismatch make treaty documentation much harder to use?

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