This is an excellent guide and one I wish I had when I first started my business.
One particularly tricky topic that I'd love to see covered is paying foreign employees. Paying members of a distributed team is straightforward when they perform as contractors. As we've grown and they've continued working with us, the relationship has become one of employer-employee in the eyes of U.S. law. This puts them in a nebulous situation where they are de facto employed by a U.S. company, but are non-U.S. persons deriving their income from a non-U.S. source.
It's likely other Atlas users could find themselves in a similar situation.
Acknowledged on the topic; this is something that I hope we can cover in more detail in the future, but not something that I can opine about semi-officially without it getting vetted by lawyers first.
I second this request for discussion. Over the past 7 years we've accumulated contractors working regularly from 10+ countries. The complexities of sending/receiving payment with contractor status (and other employment ambiguities) are significant.
One particularly tricky topic that I'd love to see covered is paying foreign employees. Paying members of a distributed team is straightforward when they perform as contractors. As we've grown and they've continued working with us, the relationship has become one of employer-employee in the eyes of U.S. law. This puts them in a nebulous situation where they are de facto employed by a U.S. company, but are non-U.S. persons deriving their income from a non-U.S. source.
It's likely other Atlas users could find themselves in a similar situation.