Online business, sells physical products via ebay (USA / UK specifically) , sells via their own website using paypal (Hong Kong registered account) Website is hosted in USA .
I'd be living in Hong Kong and doing all of this my self. It's possible that some items I would go and collect from the mainland and send them off from there, or from Hong Kong directly.
As the sale is coming from overseas and the agreement to sell an item is made by the HK company via the server hosted in the the USA, does that have any impact on tax? If I send off an item directly from the mainland (or ask someone else to) does that make any difference?
Does it make any sense to say limit shipping destinations to anywhere -except- Hong Kong to ensure that I can limit tax by selling everything to 'offshore' clients?
Does running this as a sole proprietorship make sense in the very initial stages if there is a view to change to LLC at a later date?
Also is it possible to register a sole proprietorship outside of HK via a 3rd party? I also see that there are no compulsory audits of sole traders, but is that actually much benefit if I'm getting accountants to do the tax anyway?