What is the general process of company registration in Hong Kong? What information do you need to prepare?

Hong Kong, one of the overseas companies with the largest foreign trade exports.

Hong Kong is the freest trading port in the world and an international metropolis with super-developed information. Secondly, Hong Kong has a good infrastructure and a particularly sound legal system. Therefore, if a company is registered in Hong Kong, it can provide a unique business environment for enterprises and businessmen. So now more than 9,370 mainlanders come to Hong Kong to register Hong Kong trading companies. What are the requirements for registering a Hong Kong trading company?

Many global investors come to Hong Kong to set up their own companies or register their own branches or subsidiaries for different purposes. Businessmen's idea is to develop their own company's business in different ways or ways. If the company's business develops well, it will establish an international image and improve its competitiveness.

If you have registered a Hong Kong limited liability company, you can apply to the local government to register a branch. When registering a branch, you need to provide a certain industry nature. The company doesn't need to look up the name, and the name of the branch can also end with what center, branch, company, group and so on.

Above the name of a limited company, the name of a branch company cannot be opened, but it must be a limited liability company. The head office has authority that the branch office does not have. According to certain legal requirements, the name of the head office is different from the enterprise name and business place. If you want to apply for a branch, you must register your business and declare your annual report.

There is no business tax in Hong Kong. According to the registration conditions of the Hong Kong branch, the registration can be completed within three working days. The business of the branch company is calculated together according to the whole head office. The head office must pay taxes, and the tax payment ratio is calculated according to 17.5% of the net profit of the head office, and it is only declared once a year. If the company is not profitable, it will not pay taxes. Except for cosmetics such as tobacco and alcohol. A branch registered in Hong Kong is not required to pay any other income tax if it proves that all the profits of the company come from overseas markets.

Hong kong company registration conditions

1, company name

The general provisions of the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance on company names are as follows:

(1) A company may use English name, Chinese name, English name and Chinese name for registration at the same time, but the combination of English name and Chinese name shall not be used.

(b) The English name of the company must end with "Limited" and the Chinese name must end with "Limited Company".

If the company name contains the following words, it must be approved by the Chief Executive before it can be used:

(0 1) Building Society (02) Chamber of Commerce (03) Cooperative (04) Neighborhood (05) Mass Transportation (06) Subway (07) Municipal (08) Tourist Association (09) Trustee (10) Savings (/kloc-) Cooperative (65438+ trustee (18) Chamber of Commerce (19) Trust (20) Tourist Association (2 1) Neighborhood (22) General Chamber of Commerce (23) Savings.

2. Shareholders of the Company (at least one)

3. Company directors (at least one)

Shareholders and directors can be the same subject, a natural person or a limited company.

A natural person can be a person of any nationality, but he must be at least 18 years old (except the bankrupt who has not lifted the bankruptcy order or the mentally unsound).

A limited company can be a limited company in any registered place.

4. Legal secretary (must be a Hong Kong company or a Hong Kong person)

5. Business registered address (must be Hong Kong address)

Used to receive government letters and notices, the company does not need to rent or buy special properties, but it must not only use the post office box as its business registration address.

6. Registered capital (Hong Kong Company Law stipulates that the standard registered capital is HK$ 65,438+00,000)

Information required to register a Hong Kong company

1, company name;

2. Registered capital (Hong Kong Company Law stipulates that the standard registered capital is HK$ 65,438+00,000).

3. Copies of identity certificates of shareholders and directors;

4. The shareholding ratio of each shareholder;

5. Permanent addresses and contact information of shareholders and directors;

A complete set of statutory information for Hong Kong company registration.

According to Chapter 32 of the Hong Kong Companies Statutory Ordinance, the full set of statutory information after the establishment of the company is as follows:

1, company registration certificate

2. Business registration certificate (valid for one year from the date of establishment of the company and updated once a year)

3. Memorandum and Articles of Association (general 18 copies)

4. Company atomic chapter and signature stamp (each 1, used to sign checks or other documents).

5. Company seal (1 piece)

6. Inventory book

7. The statutory account books of the company, including:

(1) Record book

(b) a register of members.

(e) register of secretaries.

Charge register

8. The above documents are equipped with "precious hard boxes", commonly known as "green boxes".