UK SaaS owner, US disregarded LLC — how does the US withholding actually equal $0?
I'm a UK resident running a B2B SaaS through a Delaware LLC. Annual receipts from US customers are about $300,000. I keep hearing 'no US withholding applies' but I don't understand the actual mechanics. Can you walk through the calculation step by step so I can explain it to a US customer's AP department?
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