Taha Rafiq

Taha Rafiq is a co-founder of IncorpMe. He has spent the past 10 years working in e-commerce and IT, first running and operating online businesses, then building the systems other founders use to launch theirs.

Since 2020 he has worked on US company formation full time and has set up more than 200 LLCs. The majority are owned by non-residents: freelancers, agency owners, and Amazon and Shopify sellers who need a US entity to access Stripe, US banking, and US marketplaces without ever setting foot in the country.

That volume is where the specifics in these guides come from: which states actually cost what after the annual report, how long the IRS really takes on an EIN filed without an SSN, and which agency upsells are worth skipping. Where something is genuinely unsettled, such as how a home tax authority treats a foreign LLC interest, he says so and points readers to a licensed adviser rather than guessing.