1. Choose the form of the company: An ordinary limited liability company has a minimum registered capital of 30,000 yuan and requires 2 (or more) shareholders. From January 2006, the new company law stipulates that 1 Register a limited liability company with a single shareholder. This special limited liability company is also called a "one-person limited company" (but there will be no "one person" in the company name, and the license will indicate "natural person sole proprietorship"). The minimum registered capital is 100,000. Yuan. If you invest and start a business in partnership with friends and family, you can choose an ordinary limited company with a minimum registered capital of 30,000 yuan; if you are the only shareholder, choose a one-person limited company with a minimum registered capital of 100,000 yuan. 2. Steps to register a company: 1. Name verification: Go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to get an "Enterprise (trade name) name pre-approval application form", fill in the name of the company you plan to get, and the Industrial and Commercial Bureau will search online (Intranet of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau) Whether there is a duplicate name? If there is no duplicate name, you can use this name and a "Notice of Pre-approval of Enterprise (Trade Size) Name" will be issued. The handling fee for this step is 30 yuan. 2. Rent a house: After renting a house, you must sign a rental contract and ask the landlord to provide a copy of the property certificate. After signing the rental contract, you have to go to the tax bureau to buy stamp duty at a rate of one thousandth of the annual rent. For example, if your annual rent is 10,000 yuan, you will need to buy 10 yuan of stamp duty and affix it to the rent contract. On the home page, wherever a rent contract is needed later, a copy of the contract with stamp duty must be affixed. 3. Write the "Articles of Association": You can download a sample of the "Articles of Association" from the website of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, and just modify it. The articles of association conclude with the signatures of all shareholders. 4. Engrave a private seal: Go to the seal engraving place on the street to engrave a private seal and tell them to engrave the legal person's private seal (square). The cost is about 20 yuan. 5. Go to an accounting firm to get a "Bank Inquiry Letter": Contact an accounting firm and get a "Bank Inquiry Letter" (must be the original, stamped by the accounting firm). 6. Go to the bank to open a company capital verification account: All shareholders bring their share of the money to the bank, the company's articles of association, the verification notice issued by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, the legal representative's private seal, ID card, and the money used for capital verification. , fill in the blank inquiry letter form, go to the bank to open a company account, you need to tell the bank that you are opening a capital verification account. After opening the company account, each shareholder deposits corresponding money into the company account according to the amount of his own investment. 7. Apply for capital verification report: Take the shareholder payment note issued by the bank, the inquiry letter stamped by the bank, as well as the company's articles of association, verification notice, rent contract, and copy of the real estate certificate, and go to the accounting firm to apply for the capital verification report. The general fee is about 500 yuan (registered capital below 500,000 yuan). 8. Register a company: Go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to obtain various forms for company establishment and registration, including establishment registration application form, list of shareholders (sponsors), director supervision, legal representative registration form, designated representative or authorized agent registration form. After completing the form, submit it to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau together with the verification notice, company articles of association, rent contract, copy of the real estate certificate, and capital verification report. The license can be collected in about 3 working days, and the fee is about 300 yuan. 9. With your business license, go to the seal engraving agency designated by the Public Security Bureau to engrave the official seal and financial seal. In the following steps, you need to use the official seal or financial seal. 10. Apply for the organization code certificate of the enterprise: Go to the Technical Supervision Bureau with your business license to apply for the organization code certificate. The fee is 80 yuan. It takes half a month to apply for this certificate. The Technical Supervision Bureau will first issue a pre-acceptance code certification document. With this document, you can apply for the subsequent tax registration certificate and basic bank account opening procedures. 11. Go to the bank to open a basic account: With your business license and organization code certificate, go to the bank to open a basic account. It is best to go to the same branch of the bank where the capital verification was originally performed, otherwise, an extra 100 yuan in capital verification account fees will be charged. To open a basic account, you need to fill in a lot of forms, and the information you need to bring includes the original business license, ID card, organization code certificate, public financial seal, and corporate seal. When opening a basic account, you also need to purchase a cipher (from the second half of 2005, most banks have this requirement), and the cipher requires 280 yuan. In the future, your company will need to use a cipher to generate a password when writing checks or transferring money. 12. Apply for tax registration: After obtaining the license, apply for a tax registration certificate at the local tax bureau within 30 days. Generally, companies need to apply for two types of tax registration certificates, namely national tax and local tax. The cost is 40 yuan each, ***80 yuan.

When applying for a tax registration certificate, you must have an accountant, because one of the documents required by the tax bureau is the accounting qualification certificate and ID card. You can hire a part-time accountant first. The salary of a small company's first-time part-time accountant is usually 200 yuan. 13. Apply for purchase invoice: If your company sells goods, you should go to the national tax to apply for an invoice. If it is a service company, go to the local tax to apply for an invoice. It finally opened for business. Pay attention to reporting taxes to the tax on time every month. Even if you do not conduct business and do not need to pay taxes, you must make a zero declaration, otherwise you will be fined. There are two points that you may be more concerned about: 1. The company must establish a sound accounting system. You may be worried that you don’t know how to do it. What should you do? A newly established company has little business and a very small workload on accountants. You can hire a part-time accountant to come to your company every month to help you set up accounts. Two or three days will be enough. Give him 200- A salary of around 500 is enough. 2. Company tax: Business tax: Companies that sell goods are levied an increase tax of 4% of the invoices issued; companies that provide services are levied a business tax of 5% of the invoices issued. Income tax: A corporate income tax of 18-33% is levied on the company's net profits. The profits of small companies are not much, usually 18%. For corporate income tax, accounting is very important. If you have a lot of profits on the books, the tax rate will be high. Therefore, the usual purchase of equipment must be invoiced, and your tickets for meals and trains are reserved, which can be used as the operating costs of your business. The difference between the two types of taxes: business tax is a tax on turnover, no matter whether you make money or not, as long as a transaction occurs and an invoice is issued, you will be taxed; income tax is a tax on profits, and the profit is the turnover minus various deductions Income tax will be levied on the remaining money after costs only if you make money.