Tax issues for international service providers

For the past few days, I was looking for information regarding the tax and governement issues for US business matters. If you are a non US person staying somewhere out of US, and planning to take home based assignments, you definitely must have the idea about the rules and regulations of the government for such people. Some of this is true for a person who resides in US and is on a work visa as well. I have tried to give you a comprehensive list of information for the US governemnt rules.

If you are outside of the United States and are interestedin obtaining more information on doing business in theUnited States, you may wish to visit the USA.govWeb site at:
http://www.usa.gov/Business/Foreign_Business.shtml

You may also wish to contact an office of the U.S.Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce. TheU.S. Commercial Service brings together exporters andimporters of U.S. goods and services around the world. Tofind a U.S. Commercial Service site by country, pleasevisit:
http://www.buyusa.gov/home/import.html

If you are looking for information on how to set up abusiness in the United States, you are best served bystarting with information from the state business licensingdepartment. All companies should be registered andlicensed in each state where they operate. For a directoryof state business regulatory or licensing agencies, pleasevisit:
http://www.sba.gov/hotlist/license.html

If you are interested in information on taxes forbusinesses in the United States, you will need to accessyour state revenue department's web site and the InternalRevenue Service (IRS) web site. To access links to allstate revenue department web sites, please visit:
http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=100236,00.html

For tax information for businesses from the IRS,please visit: http://www.irs.gov/businesses/

I think that should be quite a read for sometime and hope you will adhere to the principles mentioned on this website. I really hope that you find this information useful and will keep it in mind while conducting your business.