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UK VAT for a non-UK software company: the first-pound rule, quarterly returns and what an agent costs

A non-UK SaaS selling to UK consumers has no GBP 90,000 allowance. Here is the 30-day registration rule, B2B reverse charge, MTD filing calendar, published 2026 agent fees, and the cost of own filing against a merchant of record at GBP 3,000 and GBP 30,000 a month.

November 10, 2026

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Operations

SPF, DKIM and DMARC for a ten-person business in 2026: why invoices land in spam and the three DNS records that fix it

Why invoices sent through QuickBooks, Stripe or a CRM silently land in customer spam folders, the 10-lookup SPF limit that breaks email delivery, worked DNS records for your domain, and the 4-step path to p=reject.

November 9, 2026

Guide

The first foreign subsidiary of a small US company: cost-plus transfer pricing, the markup tax offices accept and the yearly paperwork

Why a service subsidiary bills its US parent cost plus a markup: India's published 15.5% safe harbour, Poland's 5% rule that does not cover software development, the Philippines' lack of one, the Form 5471 penalty ($10,000, up to $60,000 a year), local thresholds, and a worked year for a five-person Indian subsidiary with a year-end true-up.

November 8, 2026

SaaS

The billing contact: who gets the invoice, the failed-payment email and the renewal notice at a small SaaS's business customers

When the card holder is not the user, Stripe, Chargebee and Paddle send billing mail to one address. What each can add, a failed annual renewal day by day, PO and net-30 handling, and a worked churn model with the arithmetic.

November 6, 2026

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