Amendments to the business registration rules

In 2018 and in the beginning of 2019 amendments regarding state registration of LLC and Individual Entrepreneurs (IE) have come into force. We offer a brief review of changes.

• It is possible to register IE or LLC both filing documents to the tax authorities and with the help of multifunctional centers (MFC). Since 2018 the Federal Tax Service (FTS RF) and MFC began cooperation in electronic form and from the beginning of 2019 terms of the state registration have been reduced and now are the same as via filing to the FTS authorities.
• According to the par.3 of the art.11 of the Federal Law from 08.08.2001 №129-FL «On state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs» while filing documents for business registration to the tax authorities it is necessary to enter an e-mail address. Following the results of application processing, documents, signed by enhanced qualified electronic signature, will be sent on referenced e-mail address or address contained at the register. The documents can be received also in paper form, but it is necessary to file a request to register authority of the FTS.
• Earlier, regardless of the reason of registration denial, refiling of documents was expected to pay stamp duty once again. Now it is acceptable to file documents again without paying stamp duty second time during 3 months after the date of decision on registration denial. It is no need to file repeatedly documents, filed to the tax authorities earlier and containing no mistakes.
• From the beginning of 2019 it is possible to register business without paying stamp duty, if filing documents in electronic form with enhanced qualified electronic signature.

According to the Federal Tax Service of Russia, 17415 newly established legal entities and 58574 individual entrepreneurs and peasant farm enterprises were registered in January 2019. Information about the above mentioned entities and all business entities, including archive data, is fully available for subscribers of the Information and Analytical system Globas.