About Form 5472 Generator

What we do

Two things, and only two:

1. Free educational guides about Form 5472, written for people who are not tax professionals. Every guide is complete, ungated and free — no email required, nothing withheld behind a signup.
2. A document preparation tool that turns plain-English answers into a draft Form 5472, the pro forma Form 1120 that accompanies it, and written filing instructions. The questionnaire and the complete on-screen preview are free; a one-time payment of $49.99 unlocks the print-ready files.

What we are not

We would rather be clear about this at the outset than have you discover it after paying.

• We are not a CPA firm, law firm, enrolled agent or tax return preparer.
• We do not give tax advice — not on this site, not in the documents, not by email.
• We do not file anything with the IRS. You file it yourself, which is why the instructions are part of the product.
• We do not review your answers or check them against your records. The software formats what you type.
• We are not affiliated with the IRS or any government agency.

If you want someone to look at your circumstances and tell you what they mean, you want a qualified US tax professional, and we say so on our comparison page — including the specific situations where we think you should not buy from us.

Why this exists

The pattern that motivated it is remarkably consistent. A founder somewhere outside the United States forms a Delaware or Wyoming LLC — usually so Stripe will work, or so a US client will pay them. The formation takes fifteen minutes and costs less than dinner. Nobody mentions Form 5472.

Two or three years later they read a forum post, or an accountant mentions it in passing, and discover that their dormant LLC has been accruing exposure to a $25,000 statutory penalty per year for a form they had never heard of. They then face a choice between a professional fee that is disproportionate to a nearly-empty entity, and IRS instructions written in a language they do not speak.

That gap is what this site is for.

How the content is researched and reviewed

Given that this is financial subject matter with real consequences, our method is worth stating.

• Primary sources. Content is built from the current IRS Form 5472, its official instructions, and the statutory provisions they rest on — principally sections 6038A and 6038C of the Internal Revenue Code and the regulations under them.
• Dated review. Every page states the review period. This site reflects the IRS Form 5472 and its instructions as reviewed in 2026.
• Deliberate silence. Where a rule is genuinely unsettled or in flux — beneficial ownership reporting is the clearest example — we say the position is live and tell you to check the primary source, rather than publishing a confident answer that may be wrong.
• No fabricated specifics. We do not publish filing addresses, fax numbers or activity codes as though they were permanent. We tell you to take them from the current instructions, because they change.
• Honest negatives. The eligibility check returns "you probably don't need to file" as a genuine outcome. Pages tell you when to hire a professional instead. A tool that says yes to everyone is worthless.

Why the price is what it is

$49.99, once. Our regular price is $99.99; the current launch price is a genuine introductory offer that will end without a countdown timer or fake urgency. Three deliberate choices behind that:

• One price. No tiers to compare, no upsell at checkout, no subscription. You know what it costs before you start.
• No fake urgency. No countdown timers, no "3 people are viewing this", no invented testimonials, no limited-time discount. The only deadline we show is the real IRS one, which needs no embellishment.
• Read everything first. The complete document — every part, every line, filled in with your own answers — is displayed free before payment. You are never asked to buy something you have not read. We think that is a better guarantee than any refund policy, which is also why all sales are final.

Why we never see your data

The questionnaire runs entirely in your browser. Your entity name, EIN, addresses and transaction figures are never transmitted to us, and we hold no customer database.

That is an architectural decision, not a policy promise. We cannot leak what we never receive, and we cannot be compelled to produce records we do not hold. The trade-off is that we cannot recover your work if you clear your browser data — so save your files after purchase. Full privacy policy →

Who operates this site

Form 5472 Generator is a service of Optimus Global Solutions, based in Tel Aviv, Israel. We are a software and digital services business, not an accountancy practice — which is precisely why the product is a document tool rather than an advisory service.

Why we say where we are. Plenty of sites in this niche publish no identity at all, which is a reasonable thing to be suspicious of when a compliance product is asking for your money. You can see who we are, look us up, and email a real address that a person reads.

Contact

Email Optimusglobalsolutions@gmail.com. A person reads it, so a reply may take a day or two. You can also find Optimus Global Solutions on LinkedIn.

The second list is not evasion. Answering those questions would be giving tax advice, which we are not qualified or permitted to do — and an answer from an unqualified source is worse than no answer when $25,000 is involved. Those belong with a CPA, an enrolled agent or a tax attorney.