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Is the LLC anonymous by default? For privacy reasons, not legal. I know I can still get subpoenaed. I just don't want my name/address associated with the company on anything public.

It seems to do this I will need a lawyer to be my registered agent for mail forwarding (a regular mail forwarding service such as https://www.virtualpostmail.com/services/registered-agent/ was apparently not enough since it doesn't have attorney-client protection). That was as far as I got when I last tried to start a LLC for my side project.




Delaware ain't the Caribbean.


I didn't understand the Caribbean reference which led me down a pretty fun rabbit hole trying to figure out how that world works. Apparently it's fairly common to incorporate in British Virgin Islands (and a few others like Cayman islands, Bahamas, or Panama) for international companies.

I was sincerely asking about it because of privacy and not tax reasons though.


To clarify: Many countries allow "anonymous associations", which provide privacy and the side effect of enabling tax evasion.




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