I’m a Kuwaiti citizen working and living in Kuwait. We don’t have taxes in Kuwait.

I’m a programmer in my spare time and I want to sell desktop applications on my website, iPhone applications in the iTunes App Store, and subscriptions to web services.

As a Kuwaiti person, I can’t even get a paypal business account, let alone a business bank account and merchant services.

So my plan is to form an LLC in Delaware to benefit from the merchant services available to US entities.

According to my research and reading:
1) a single owner LLC in Delaware is treated like a sole proprietor
2) a nonresident alien doesn’t have to pay a self-employment tax
3) there are no sales taxes in Delaware

So my question is, what taxes DO I have to pay and under which categories do they fall?

Thank you.
Sorry for being redundant, but I want to stress that my question is:

In the situation that I’ve described, what taxes do I have to pay?

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I am in the process of opening my companies website to the public but I need a Merchant Account in order to charge customers for there orders during check out. I am sure there are numerous Merchant Companies out there to choose from but I want to be sure I pick the right one for my company. I am not sure how many transactions I will have per month because the business if very new but over time the amount of transactions will increase over time. I know that some Merchant services charge you on an estimated amount of transactions per month, and if you do not reach that level you will be charge additional fees.

If someone could give me some helpful information on what Merchant Companies are better than others, who has good rates? no monthly fees? cheaper monthly fees? etc…

As much information on this topic would be appreciate, even if you can point me in the right direction I would be appreciated.

Thank you for your time

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by using another businesses already established merchant services account thereby avoiding establishing their own merchant services account ?
without using paypal?

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Currently, our website is a customer of authorize.net. We pay authorize.net 20 dollars a month for their gateway. They told us we also require a merchant services account in order to process credit cards via our website.

Where can I get a merchant service account or a package that includes authorize.net at the cheapest price?! We tried quite a few banks but authorize.net and the banks come to more than 45$ per month!

Thank you.

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I’m designing some software to help small mom-and-pop companies put themselves online for little or no recurring cost. The software will be able to run all the functions of their business, from inventory control, to marketing (tie ins to Froogle, eBay, Shopping.com, and AdWords and Overture), to accounting (export in CSV for now, QuickBooks later), and so forth. It will be easy to change the look-and-feel of it (using skins and templates, some of which I’ll build at first, and I’ll publish the guide to creating more). It will integrate with Authorize.net, PayPal, and other merchant services. It will be built using Open Source tools, and will itself be Open Source.

Can anyone think of a good name for something like this?

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I need a web hosting, a payment gateway, a merchant services account and anything else? In order to safe money, I’ll design my own website. I need recommendations for the best value and price.

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