e-Residency
Forming an Estonian Company While the e-Residency Application Is Pending
An e-Residency application takes time. From submission to the card in hand, it can take around two months. The company does not have to wait for it. An Estonian OÜ can be formed by Power of Attorney while the application is in process, and the card is linked to the company once it arrives. The […]
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Estonian X-Road (X-tee): How Estonia’s State Systems Exchange Data
What Estonian X-Road (X-tee) is, how it works, current figures from RIA, and how a company can connect to it.
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Estonian Company Tax: What Foreign Owners Need to Know
Estonia is known for not taxing retained company profits. That part is true and it is one of the most business-friendly corporate tax systems in Europe. But it is also one of the most misunderstood. The common “0% tax on retained profits” headline is broadly correct, but only in a specific Estonian sense: an Estonian […]
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Estonian OÜ Holding Company for Foreign Businesses
An Estonian OÜ holding company can be a good option for owning a foreign business, but the structure must be set up correctly. In Estonia, there is no separate legal form called a holding company. Usually, the structure is simply a normal Estonian private limited company, an OÜ, that owns shares in another company. Estonia […]
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Estonian Business Address Only: The €120 Basic Plan
Every Estonian company keeps a legal address on file in the Business Register. Some companies need nothing more from a service provider than that address, because the owner already does the rest. The Basic plan is an Estonian business address in Tallinn for those companies. It costs €120 a year. What the plan includes The […]
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Do You Really Need an Estonian Contact Person?
The law requires a contact person when the company’s address is abroad (§ 24 (2) of the Äriregistri seadus, the Commercial Register Act). With a legal address in Estonia, a contact person is still how official documents reliably reach the company: a document delivered to the contact person counts as delivered to the company (§ […]
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Estonian e-Residency: What It Is, What It Isn’t, and What You Actually Need to Start a Company
Estonian e-Residency is one of the more misunderstood programs in the world of international business. The concept is simple but the details matter — especially if you are planning to use it to register a company. What Estonian e-Residency Actually Is E-Residency is a digital identity issued by the Estonian government. It comes in the […]
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