I am in Taiwan. Before I plan anything else, should I treat the current IRS treaty list as the ground truth?
There is a lot of confusing commentary online about Taiwan and cross-border tax arrangements. I run a U.S. LLC from Taipei for an online education business and I am trying to avoid building the whole structure around wishful reading of old posts.
Is the safest starting point simply to treat the current IRS treaty list and the actual withholding documents in front of me as the ground truth, then let advisers build from there?
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