Representative Office Registration in Ukraine
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Representative office registration in Ukraine is based on the Law of Ukraine on Foreign Economic Activities. A representative office is an office established by a company or a legal entity to conduct marketing and other non-transactional operations, which are not used for actual business (e.g. sales).
Foreign business entities, which carry out foreign economic activities in Ukraine, have the right to open their representative offices in Ukraine. Registration of these offices shall be carried out by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine. Opening of the representative office of the foreign company in Ukraine can be a complicated process where numerous ins and outs must be taken into account. Professional advisory services are highly recommended.
Advantages of a Representative Office in Ukraine
An advantage for the registration of representative’s foreign company is the fact of obtaining additional possibilities for activities at Ukrainian market, separate customs and tax privileges.
Other positive points for starting a foreign representative office in Ukraine are the absence of the obligatory profits’ conversion, opportunity to pay Ukrainian employees’ salaries in foreign or local currencies, possibility of transferring funds from the import commercial operations with goods or services onto the bank accounts of other countries, absent obligation to obtain an official permission for Ukrainian employment process of non-residents and so on.
Types of Ukrainian Representative Office
Generally, there are only two possible types of foreign representative offices in Ukraine:
(1) Non-profitable, those that do not carry on business activities, purpose of their presence is to collect information, market research and other non-commercial objectives;
(2) Permanent establishments, purpose of their presence is to carry on business activities.
Basic Information Required
For the registration of a representative office of a foreign business entity on the territory of Ukraine there shall be submitted:
(1) application form for registration of a representative office;
(2) extract from the trade (banking) register of the country, where the foreign business entity is officially registered;
(3) reference from the banking institution, where an applicant’s account is officially kept;
(4) power of attorney to carry out representative functions issued in accordance with the law of the country where the office of the foreign business entity is officially registered.
The above documents shall be certified by a notary at the place of issue and dully legalized in consular institutions of Ukraine, if international agreements of Ukraine do not provide to the contrary.
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