You formed with Atlas. Here is what comes each year.
Atlas set up your Delaware company. The yearly filings stay with you: the federal return, the Delaware tax and the tax forms payers ask for. We can file them for you.
Federal filing $399 for a single-member LLC, $899 for a C-Corp.
Your Atlas company's year
- March 1Delaware franchise tax
- April 15Form 5472 · Form 1120
- June 1Delaware LLC tax
- October 15Extended 5472 · Extended 1120
Founders outside the US with an Atlas company
You live outside the US
You are not a US citizen or US resident, and you own the company alone or with others.
Atlas formed it in Delaware
A Delaware LLC or C‑Corp, this year or earlier. The yearly steps are the same.
A year has closed, or is about to
Even a year with no revenue can need a federal filing and the Delaware tax.
You want it handled in writing
One filing or the whole year. We ask for what we need by email, well before each date.
What Atlas set up, and what stays with you
Atlas forms the company. The yearly filings belong to the company and its owner, whoever formed it.
Atlas set up
Done at formation- The Delaware formation filing
- Your EIN, the company's US tax ID
- A Delaware registered agent, renewed each year
- Founder documents and, for a C‑Corp, the 83(b) election
Stays with you each year
Yours, every year- The federal returnForm 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120 for a single-member LLC, or Form 1120 for a C‑CorpApril 15
- The Delaware taxThe annual LLC tax, or the C‑Corp annual report and franchise taxLLC June 1C‑Corp March 1
- The tax form a payer asks forForm W‑8BEN or Form W‑9When a payer asks
- BooksRecords that support the returnAll year
What Atlas includes is from Stripe's Atlas documentation, checked November 2026.
Twelve months, a handful of dates
Dates for a calendar tax year. A federal date on a weekend or a legal holiday moves to the next business day.
March 1
- C‑CorpDelaware annual report and franchise taxPaid to Delaware. The amount depends on your shares and assets (the smallest is $225); we confirm it with you before you pay.Delaware costs
April 15
- LLCForm 5472 with a pro-forma Form 1120Due for any year with reportable transactions between you and the company, even with no revenue. We prepare it for $399.Deadlines guide
- C‑CorpForm 1120, with Form 5472 for each foreign related partyThe corporate federal return. We prepare it for $899.Tax filing
June 1
- LLCDelaware annual LLC taxPaid to Delaware: $300 for 2025, $400 from the 2026 tax year. No annual report. We can pay it for you from your dashboard.Delaware tax guide
October 15
- LLCExtended Form 5472 and pro-forma Form 1120Only when Form 7004 was filed by April 15. We file Form 7004 for $99.Tax filing
- C‑CorpExtended Form 1120Only when Form 7004 was filed by April 15. Any tax owed was still due on the original date.Tax deadlines
Dates follow the IRS instructions for Forms 5472, 1120 and 7004 and the Delaware Division of Corporations.
W-8BEN, not W-9, for most Atlas LLC owners
Stripe, clients and platforms ask for a tax form before they pay you. Which one depends on who owns the company and how it is taxed.
What is the company, and who owns it?
Single-member LLC, owned by you
W‑8BEN
The IRS looks through the LLC to you, so you give Form W‑8BEN in your own name, as a non-US person. A W‑9 is for US persons.
C‑Corp
W‑9
A C‑Corp is its own US taxpayer. It gives Form W‑9 in its own name, with its EIN.
A company, or several people
It depends
The answer changes with the owners. The guide walks through each case.
W-9, W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E?
Where the form goes. To the payer that asked, through its own form or by email. It is not filed with the IRS.
Hand over the yearly filings
Add your Atlas company to Nonresident Tax, then choose what we take on. Formed elsewhere is fine: choose “I already have a US company” when you sign up.
Federal tax filing
LLC $399C‑Corp $899Form 5472 with the pro-forma Form 1120 for your LLC, or Form 1120 with Form 5472 for your C‑Corp. Priced per filing.
Explore tax filingDelaware tax
Total shown before you payWe file the annual LLC tax, or the C‑Corp annual report and franchise tax, and pay the state amount for you.
Open State filingsFull Compliance
One yearly planThe federal filing, the Delaware filing and your books together. For a C‑Corp the plan is C‑Corp Full Compliance.
See the plansW‑8BEN and W‑9 help
Written quoteTell us who is asking and why. We reply with a written quote before any work starts.
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