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US Tax 101: What Every Early-Stage Founders
What you'll learn
- How to incorporate a US startup, including Delaware C-Corp vs LLC, EIN setup, and Section 1202 QSBS
- What your first 30 days and year one look like, from opening a US bank account to bookkeeping and cap table basics
- Your annual compliance checklist, covering federal vs state tax, franchise tax, and BOI reporting
- Pre-immigration tax planning for founders relocating to the U.S.; cross-border tax considerations for U.S. parent–foreign subsidiary structures, including India, UK or other country operations.
This session is built for founders who have incorporated in the US, or are about to, and want a clear picture of what comes next. We'll walk through the practical side of running a Delaware C-Corp: how to set up your entity correctly, what taxes you actually owe, and what your compliance calendar looks like through year one.
If you have a foreign co-founder or an entity outside the US, we'll cover the specific obligations that come with that too, including ITIN, FBAR, and how cross-border ownership affects your filings.This isn't a generic compliance overview. Anand Krishna and Shilpa Dinavahi, Associate Attorney at JKZ LLP, work with founders navigating these exact questions every day, and the session is built around the mistakes that actually cost startups time and money. Stick around for a live Q&A at the end to get your specific questions answered.
Your speakers
Anand Krishna co-founded Inkle, a US tax/accounting SaaS product in 2022 with CTO Ranvir Singh. Previously, Anand co-founded Index, a personal finance app acquired by Tencent-backed Niyo in 2021, and a Y-Combinator backed fintech.
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Shilpa Advises startup founders on US tax and entity setup, from choosing the right structure to staying compliant as they grow. She is Dual-qualified in the US and India, with an LL.M from UC Berkeley and a CPA license.
Akshay Sankhla is a Chartered Accountant and US Tax Consultant at Inkle, specializing in cross-border tax structuring and compliance for foreign-connected US startups. He helps founders scale without tax surprises.
