My foreign-owned US LLC missed FBARs — who is even supposed to file, me or the LLC?
I'm a non-resident and my single-member US LLC opened a business account abroad that went over $10,000. We never filed FBARs. I'm confused about who the filer is — the LLC, me personally, or both? I'm not a US person myself.
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