FAQ

FAQ

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Yes! The local director either has to have Austrian citizenship or has to have a work permit for Austria.

Yes, we help our clients to find a suitable and affordable local director in Austria for long or short time periods.

Yes, we can help you. If you need, we will prepare the founding contract, organize a notary, a bank account, an office, and the first employee with an EU work permit or EU citizenship, who is needed as the director. For this, we will ask for detailed information from your side.

GmbH is the equivalent of an LLC(Limited Liability Company) in Austria. It is the most common and preferred business structure in Austria.

Yes, we are not charging any amount for the first meeting.

Yes, however with conditions. You would have to have another general manager who is either an Austrian citizen or someone who holds an EU work permit and residence permit. If you possess an EU work permit you can be general manager for a shelf company in Austria too.

A Shelf Company has many advantages. With a shelf company, you have the time advantage as you will be free of bureaucracy. A shelf company is also known as a ready-made company, which means you will not have to deal with bureaucracy by yourself.

After completion of the shelf-company purchase. We can offer additional services such as accounting, and tax services with our long-term professional partners

No, but as soon as we learn the buyer's field of business, we start the necessary procedure to obtain a trade or another license.

The process is to get in touch with our consultant and he will organize a notary and prepare all documents for you. Organizing an appointment with a notary takes approximately. 2 weeks. After that, the company is transferred, but it takes another 2 weeks until the transfer occurs in the Austrian court.

Yes, as long as it is an Austrian address.

Yes, in most cases. We can organize a contract to be signed in an Austrian embassy worldwide or there is a new online registration process.

Except for the basic package shelf companies, all the other shelf companies in our portfolio is VAT-registered.

Yes, of course, you are free to choose any name you like. But choose a name and tell it to us, so we can check with the court, whether it was used before.

Shelf companies are the best solutions for investors who want to start operating as quickly as possible. Additionally, it saves a lot of effort from your side given founding a company from scratch demands a lot of bureaucratic procedures in Austria.

Do you have any issues or further inquiries?

Head office address:

Dresdner Straße 47/3.OG A-1200 Vienna, Austria

Call for help:

+43 19 081 999 09

Mail us for information

office@shelf-company.at