You're confusing partnerships and corporations. If someone owns 10% of a corporation they are simply a shareholder. Many people create corporations and refer to themselves and other founding shareholders as 'partners.' This may be the source of the confusion. A partnership (general or limited...
This is a tricky question as you are entering a gray area if you are using material from Book Z to inspire your own book. Derivatives works are highly litigated and there is case law that you could turn to to help you make this decision but based on your example its going to be a fine line. You w...
If your concern is from an ethical standpoint or a concern over a segregation of duties, there is no problem at all having your tax person handling your bookkeeping. The bigger issue is something that few people understand about accountants. There are different specialties within accounting, a...
Without more information on your intention and the target market's use for the application, itself, the simple answer is "yes." Many digital products available for US consumers are developed/launched outside of the States.
I hope I understood this right! You are in Canada and want to sell USA products but you don't know how and don't have licenses! Yes?... 1-Find a local Canadian supplier that have the appropriate licenses to sell, meaning that they can import from USA, 2-Call USA suppliers and tell them you wan...
They may have patents on certain algorithms they use to sort / present jobs to people, but it's unlikely that anyone has a patent on the general idea of a career portal. If you'd like advice on how to do an effective patent search, or how to affordably file your own patents in the US I'm happy to...
I've advised 40+ startups on hiring, org structure, and leadership, and excited to take a stab at this question. The key first is defining in more detail the role you need today and the role you aspire the company will need 12 months from now. Where do they intersect? What hard skills vs soft s...
First, you need to talk to an accountant to work out those details so everything is handled legally and correctly. The answer depends a great deal on what kind of company you have set up. If you're an LLC then the profits get distributed to the owners based upon the percentage they own. The rev...
In short No. There are laws that if you sell to anyone within a particular state in the U.S. you must obey each state's tax laws. However for the majority of the tax laws the exception (loop hole) is in the digital services realm - where you can claim income as 'advisory / non-physical services'...
These are all specific questions you need to be taking to a Tax attorney, or accountant. The laws are varied on all of your issues and need to come from one of the places I just suggestied, and not from a get help site. Good luck