Secretary

After incorporating your company, you could benefit from having a corporate secretary around. Find out if you really need one.

視乎公司的業務往來，您的香港公司或需要有公司印章。本文介紹公司印章的用途、規定及取得公司印章需知。查閱文章以了解您是否需要為您的香港公司製作公司或法團印章，及更多常見問題。

You will usually need to file your documents by a fixed time however, business owners are often so busy with business engagement that they forget about the deadlines.

In April 2020, Singapore businesses will have to submit the Register for Registrable Controllers to ACRA. Before, your company was only obliged to maintain it internally. Now you will have to file the Register with ACRA electronically and maintain it updated at all times.

If you want to change your company name, it’s relatively easy to do so in Hong Kong. And if there are other changes happening in your company - such as change in registered office address, new company director or secretary - you have 15 days to report these changes to the Companies Registry.

The phrase “annual general meeting” (AGM) may conjure in your head an image of a hall filled with agitated shareholders grilling a row of executives seated on stage with difficult questions about the business, thanks to media coverage of AGMs in listed companies.

There might come a point when the name you chose for your company during incorporation no longer fits where you want it to go. Often an application to ACRA to change your company name might be more efficient and cheaper, too.

Tax and filing deadlines are the bane for many company directors, but we can be fairly certain they’re here to stay. Whether you’re a Type A (“Deadlines are easy!”) or Type B (“When is my next deadline?!”) entrepreneur, we’ve put together this handy guide for you.

New business owners or even company officers may not be familiar with the necessary paperwork to deliver to local authorities for annual requirements. Everything is new. Starting a business in Hong Kong is already so tough and now there is paperwork to deliver to be compliant?