My Washington SaaS setup is remote. Why is my accountant asking about B&O tax?
I am in South Korea and have a Washington LLC because my co-founder lives in Seattle and handles operations there. We sell a SaaS product and most of the code is written outside the U.S. I assumed the main state issue would just be the annual report.
Instead, my accountant is asking whether Washington B&O tax could matter. I thought state tax meant corporate net income tax, so I do not really understand why a software business would get pulled into a different system.
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