Getting paid from Brazil
Stripe is available to businesses registered in Brazil and supports Pix and local cards. A Brazilian Stripe account settles in reais, so revenue in dollars is converted along the way. Shopify Payments is not offered in Brazil; Brazilian stores use a third-party payment provider.
With a US LLC, its EIN and a US business bank account, you can apply for a US Stripe account like any American company. It accepts cards from almost every country, and it can also accept Pix from customers in Brazil. Those Pix payments settle in dollars, the Brazilian customer pays the IOF on top, and Stripe sets limits per Brazilian customer of USD 3,000 a day and USD 10,000 a month.
Stripe reviews every account and makes its own decision. No formation service can promise approval.
At home
Brazilian tax: Law 14.754/2023
Brazil taxes its residents on worldwide income. Since 1 January 2024, Law 14.754/2023 sets the rules for individuals with investments and controlled companies abroad. The profit of a foreign company you control is taxed at 15%. As a rule that happens when the profit is distributed, but for a company in a country or regime that Brazil lists as favored or privileged, or one with mostly passive income (active income below 60%), the profit is taxed every 31 December, even if it stays in the company.
In April 2026 the Receita Federal published a ruling (Solução de Consulta Cosit 56/2026) that treats a US LLC owned by non-US residents and taxed as transparent in the US as a privileged tax regime. On that reading, the profit of an LLC controlled by a Brazilian resident is taxed in Brazil each year. A ruling formally binds only the person who asked, and tax practitioners dispute it, but it shows how the Receita looks at these companies. Brazil and the US have no income tax treaty.
The law also has an option to treat a controlled company as transparent and report its assets and income as your own. Which treatment fits your LLC, and how any US tax is credited, are questions for a contador who works with international structures. Ask before you form the company, not after the first year.
Reporting: DIRPF and CBE
Your interest in the LLC goes on your annual income tax return (DIRPF), together with the profit it makes under the rules of Law 14.754/2023. Keep the LLC's books and bank statements from day one; they support what you declare.
Separately, the Banco Central do Brasil collects the CBE declaration (Capitais Brasileiros no Exterior). A resident whose assets abroad total USD 1 million or more on 31 December must file the annual CBE; from USD 100 million there is also a quarterly one. Your interest in the LLC and any accounts abroad in your own name count toward that total.
Sending money to the LLC and bringing it back
Brazil's foreign exchange law (Law 14.286/2021) lets residents send money abroad and receive it without prior approval from the Banco Central, as long as it goes through an institution authorized to operate in the exchange market. In practice your bank or an authorized FX provider books a câmbio contract for each transfer and records its purpose.
IOF applies to most exchange operations. Under Decree 12.499/2025, whose effects the Supreme Court restored in July 2025, the rate is 3.5% for most outgoing transfers and 1.1% for transfers for investment abroad, while most incoming transfers carry 0.38%. Rates are set by decree and can change; the IOF is shown on every câmbio contract.
Profit you take out of the LLC arrives as an incoming transfer, converted to reais through a câmbio contract. Keep the LLC's records, the distribution and the bank documents together for your contador.
The US side is the same for everyone
Where you live does not change the US part. It is done online, without travelling, without a US address and without an SSN.
- Choose a state: Wyoming or New Mexico for low running costs, Delaware if you plan to raise money from investors.
- The formation document is filed with a registered agent in that state, within 48 hours.
- The EIN is requested from the IRS as soon as the state approves. No SSN or ITIN is needed.
- You get the operating agreement that banks and payment providers ask for.
- With those documents you apply for a US business bank account, for example at Mercury.
- Every year: the registered agent, the state's annual report where there is one, and Form 5472 for a single-member LLC owned by a foreign person.
Which state?
With no people or premises in the US you can choose any state. Most founders abroad choose on yearly cost and speed.
Pay for your LLC in Brazilian real
At checkout you can pay in Brazilian real instead of US dollars, including Pix. We convert at the day's ECB reference rate plus 1.5%, fixed at the moment you order.
Sources checked on November 2, 2026
This page is general information, not legal or tax advice. Rules and fees change; check your own situation with a contador in Brazil before you form the LLC.
