I am planning to launch my online tutoring site for the US students shortly.
The preliminary work is almost done, but could not get any idea, do I need to get an import export license for the same?
Iam staying in India .Since, Iam planning to target US students as my prospective customers do i need to get a license(import- export ) .The tutoring charges will be paid in dollars. Can anyone help and share the details.
At this time the Internet is not taxed in the US. You do not need a license to do an online business.
However if you plan to ship books or materials to the students you might have to pay extra. You can get around that by trying to find all your materials somewhere like Amazon.com (get an affiliate acount and you can still get some money off of what the students purchase there). Or, if you make your own materials for the class, consider making them somewhere like CafePress.com so that its a US company shipping them (mention OddThotz as a reference if you create a CafePress shop)
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At this time the Internet is not taxed in the US. You do not need a license to do an online business.
However if you plan to ship books or materials to the students you might have to pay extra. You can get around that by trying to find all your materials somewhere like Amazon.com (get an affiliate acount and you can still get some money off of what the students purchase there). Or, if you make your own materials for the class, consider making them somewhere like CafePress.com so that its a US company shipping them (mention OddThotz as a reference if you create a CafePress shop)
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