Peter, I'm curious as to the easiest way for Australian founders to get a long stay visa and work permit for the US while working for their own (Delaware) company?
You're right. Most accountants make their money from local businesses. And global accounting firms charge the earth. It's easier to separate You're bookkeeping from your (expensive) accountants who are better set for strategic advice.
What a big question. With so many new sales taxes hitting rhe world its now a nightmare for us global companies, especially in the digital services and the travel industry.
We employ our own bookkeepers (in Africa) who operate a range of accounting systems for each company in the group (5 countries).
As CEO I tend to do the teaching and review but the team does the lodgement. (I am an Australian Chartered Accountant and former tax agent so get the rules fairly easily).
Most lodgements are online. The US is the exception. We also find there are free services for lodging electronically.
A lot of the accounting systems are way overpriced so we don't use many of their up market solutions.
We have built our own invoicing and Billing system this week with AI so expect we'll create more of our own apps over the coming year.
My bookkeeping team has some spare capacity so let me know if we can maybe help you out.
I'm so impressed with the concept of this agent but sorry, I can't have you accessing all my corporate data and systems because I access them via browser.
Perhaps you could create both a Public and Corporate version of the extension, like Copilot does. The Corporate version could have access to all browser data but not share it beyond the bounds of the company.
You know in Europe the card merchants are limited to about 1.3%. And the US could regulate this as well. In Australia you can add the card commission on top of the purchase easily. (Much easier than Stripe for instance).
To save payment fees there are probably easier sections of the payment process to focus on. For instance why do so many merchant banks insist on mandatory FX into 1 currency. This limitation means if I use Stripe I end up paying 9% commissions.
Like Bump did before it was shut down by Google.