Everything to think about before the first invoice

A UK limited company doing international consultancy and taking Stripe Managed Payments distributions sits across three tax stories at once: UK corporation tax, cross-border place-of-supply, and a merchant-of-record arrangement where someone else is the seller. Most setup guides cover the first and ignore the other two. This one is built for that shape.

Tick things off as you do them — everything is saved in this browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere; there is no account and no database. Each section ends with the questions worth putting to an accountant, because the honest answer to several of them is "it depends on your specifics".