well done for keeping on keeping on! thanks for sharing your solution. On 19 April 2011 14:42, Mikel Lindsaar <raasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have done it. > After literally months of talking to USA banks, all of which (illegally per > US law) require a social security number to open a bank account, or you to > visit in person, I finally came across a solution. > Contact Jacques from Inc Plan (http://www.incplan.net/) You can tell him I > recommended you if you want to break the ice. > He helped us set up RubyX LLC in the USA and a bank account with the > Citizens bank in the USA. This then gave us a Citizen's Bank VISA debit > card which I use to pay for all my USA hosting fees. > My USA clients send me USA checks (note the spelling :) to my USA bank > account, it gets deposited in USD and all my monthly hosting fees get > withdrawn from my USA Visa Debit card which just draws off the balance. I > don't pay any exchange rate fees. If the US account balance gets too high, > I withdraw it to my Australian account. > I use Xero to manage my USD accounts and my AUD accounts and do all my tax > reporting in Australia, taking advantage of the USA - AUD tax treaty which > requires you only pay tax in one of the countries (I am not an accountant, > check with yours). > I am not affiliated with Inc Plan, I don't get any kick backs, but Jacques > was very helpful in setting it all up. > > Mikel Lindsaar > -- > http://rubyx.com/ # Consultancy > http://lindsaar.net/ # Blog > http://stillalive.com/ # Awesome Startup :) > > On 19/04/2011, at 10:32 AM, John Ferlito wrote: > > Howdy, > > This has sort of been covered before but not quite the situation I > find myself in. > > So we are an Australian company with US customers, so we are getting > paid in US Dollars. Also a large chunk of our expenses (Amazon AWS) > are in US dollars. > > So I can get an AU account in USD but is there anyway to get a USD > credit card attached to it so that I'm avoiding the two way exchange > rate loss? > > Alternatively while in AU can I get a US bank account and US credit > card where I can do everything online? > > Hoping someone else has managed to solve this problem! > > Cheers, > John > > -- > John > Blog http://www.inodes.org > LCA2012 http://lcaunderthestars.org.au > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. > > Guidelines on discussion: > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en >
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