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You're welcome. Maybe it's not the end of the world for a registered agent to be that person, if you have one.

Sounds like a possibility, but remember guess we are ultimately at the mercy of, most likely, some bot/AI deciding on this. Plus I wonder if documentation of that kind in your name might be a challenge further down if you are trying to show no substance in the US. Google itself might challenge...

Ok, I've dug up the documents I had sent. As of last summer (2024), the options for the payment account owner to identify themselves as being based in (or being sufficiently related to) the geography of the business (the US in this case) and as the person that is, ultimately, authorised to...

If you think you can beat Google at their own game of ignorance, elective mutism and disregard for their users, why don't you show us how it's done, instead of asking to others to throw themselves in the fire and "report back"?

My advice for the next guy would be to actually read and understand what I wrote in very uncomplicated English.

Do you realise I wrote "What I did was A and B" and you replied "So they want A?" I don't know what they want. Nobody knows what they want. All I can say is that the two things I have provided (including ID of the person on the payments account) worked. There are no specific "to do lists"...

How can the US payment profile on Google be enough, when it's basically the one thing you are trying to validate??? What I did was a change in the operating agreement of my company and a scan of a Mercury bank card in the name of the company and with the name of the person in the payments profile.

That US payments profile has to belong to somebody who is a US resident or maybe just a US national living abroad, and you need to be able to bring evidence that the person is related to the business.

Try and see if anyone provides the service that my relative was able to do for me. I think that registered agents, especially the ones that advertise here on the forum and geared towards small companies, could help. Also, I recommend Wise as an initial bank while you wait for the EIN of your...

Hi! Not sure what you mean by DND developer account? What I have done is creating a google payments account with the details of a US-based person, create a Google Dev account with it and have ways to show that this person is related to the business. MAYBE there can be other ways too.

The crazy thing is that google doesn't have some kind of pricing tiers for different levels and quality of support. They probably think they are giving devs a GREAT deal by charging them $25 for a lifetime instead of the $100 or so that Apple charges every year. Whilst even $200 a year would be...

@drillbill @kissandorzsolti @saeed Big disclaimer: you need somebody US-based whom you can trust, can be involved in your business at least on paper, and that can create a google payments account for you What I did after a few fails which involved creating additional dev accounts for google...

@kissandorzsolti I used Law 4 Small Business, their NM office. https://www.l4sb.com/ There is a major catch to what you want to do: Google won't allow you to have a US-based legal entity with payments unless you can show some ties to the US. The crux of this will be the payments profile at...

You have to result as a resident of the jurisdiction of your legal entity or convince google that somebody else who's a resident is sufficiently involved in your app business that it makes sense he/she is the person whose name is on the Google Payments Profile. Might be a national, not a...

Just to be sure: you mean corporate income (i.e. company revenue) or the personal income that one receives from that corporate income?

It's possible google doesn't care too much, but likely the account the payments are then released to has to be that of a company. The problem with the OP's plan is that he needs to become a demonstrable resident or citizen of the jurisdiction he wants the front company to be in. Given the exotic...

Right, I guess that settles it.

They want to understand the line where tax efficiency becomes tax avoidance and stay on the right side of it.

It won't be easy. Google Play will always want a genuine person to be the nominee of the Google Payments account that will be used to receive the monthly payouts from the apps proceedings. Apple doesn't care, but Google does. So unless you can have a resident/national of the jurisdiction you...

Hello! Can a UK tax resident (who's also a bona-fide UK resident, with life and fulltime employment established in the UK) justify opening a company elsewhere for the purpose of having a mobile app business, publishing on Google Play and Apple App Store? The work that goes into the company...