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Legal address: why tax inspectorate may reject the registration of new company in Russia?
It is becoming more common today for the tax authorities to reject the request to register a company in Russia (Moscow, Sochi). Tax Offices not only reject documents with the smallest and most minor errors, but also they do not give back the documents or monies paid for the registration. Along with those mentioned, they require mandatory presence of one of the Participants(what does this mean “participants” you need to find a better word like “Directors” or something) upon submission of documents for registration. All this is caused by the struggle of Russian authorities with “one-day companies”. In reality, “one-day” companies still exist, however, it is legitamite businessmen who are suffering from these rule.
One of the reasons for the common rejections and the area we would like to draw our clients’ attention towards is connected with the use of “mass-registration” legal addresses.
Since January 01, 2006 the tax registration bodies of the Russian Federation created a database to include such data about companies such as Founders, General Directors and legal addresses.
Today the tax authorities declare that if there are more than 10 companies registered at one legal address – such an address automatically will be added to the list of “Mass-registration” addresses.
In spite of the fact that “mass-registration” of legal addresses is no legal reason to refuse the registration of a company (according to the Law “On company registration” of the Russian Federation) - in practice Tax authorities do not allow a company to be registered at such an address and therefore, they simply refuse to register such a company.
Before registering you may check your address: http://www.mosnalog.net/indexp.html, but the database of “mass-registration” addresses changes everyday and therefore, you cannot be sure that tomorrow you will not see your address on this list.
Moreover, if you use legal address that is placed on the “mass-registration” list you will not be able to open a bank account in any reputable bank. This is because the bank checks to make sure the General Director is at the address where the company is registered. In the even they do not find him the bank will not open the account.
If you are lucky and you end up registering a company at one of the “mass-registration” legal address, the Director may be asked to come to the tax authorities and to bring with him all documents, ie agreements of the owner, confirmation payment documents etc. If the General Director will fail to do this the tax inspectorate will issue a fine and demand the company re-register at its actual address..If a company fails to satify the requests the tax authorities may liquidate the company.
We highly recommend you not buy a legal address from third parties and use only your actual address for registration. You may rent a small office (one room) initially or ask our specialist to provide you with a guaranteed legal address. If you decide to register the company at an improper legal address, you do so at your own risk.
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