After you decide which city to invest, make a survey of the investment environment and determine the investment form, what lies ahead is a series of complex procedures. Registering a company on China refers to various types of fees, which you must pay special attention to.
After you decide which city to invest, make a survey of the investment environment and determine the investment form, what lies ahead is a series of complex procedures. Registering a company on China refers to various types of fees, which you must pay special attention to.
Fee categories
If you are not familiar with the registration procedures in China, the safest way is to choose a professional company registration service agency. Then you need to pay administrative fee and commission fee.
Administrative Fee
Administrative Fee is for the administrative department in which your registered company located. The fee is often fixed, including name approval fee, approval certificate fee, announcement fee, MOEACA IC card fee, training fee, official seal fee, enterprise code fee, RMB basic account fee, FX IC card fee, tax registration fee, customs registration fee, capital verification fee (usually measure by USD 200,000), business license alteration fee, enterprise code alteration fee and tax registration alteration fee.
Administrative Fee
Administrative Fee is for the administrative department in which your registered company located. The fee is often fixed, including name approval fee, approval certificate fee, announcement fee, MOEACA IC card fee, training fee, official seal fee, enterprise code fee, RMB basic account fee, FX IC card fee, tax registration fee, customs registration fee, capital verification fee (usually measure by USD 200,000), business license alteration fee, enterprise code alteration fee and tax registration alteration fee.
Commission Fee
Commission Fee differs with cities. For example, in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, the fee charges higher than other cities, for those are popular foreign investment cities. Commission Fee will be charged in two periods. The first period is from the beginning till the finish of the procedure of business license registration. The fee of this period differs with the type of the registered company. Usually the manufacturing company is charged higher than the trade company. The second period is the later procedures including enterprise code, opening a bank account, foreign exchange registration, tax registration, custom registration and some alteration procedures.
Fee Scope
Foreign funded companies include wholly foreign-owned enterprises, foreign representative offices, Sino-foreign joint ventures, etc. Registering a foreign representative office usually cost about RMB 5,000, while registering a wholly foreign-owned enterprise costs RMB 25,000.