Setting up a limited company

What

A limited company is a company where one or more natural or legal persons invest their initial contributions to the capital.

Steps

Step 1: Check the availability of your company name
• company name must be clearly distinguished from the other names registered in the court registry, the identity or association with another company that violates the rights of intellectual and industrial property rights or rights of other people;
• the word “Croatia” and its derivatives may be entered in the company only with the consent of the and State authorities;
• company name cannot contain names, logos, flags or other national emblems of other countries or international (intergovernmental) organization, nor official signs for control and quality guarantee;
• company name can hold a part of names of a person only with her consent, and if that person died, with the consent of heirs;
• company name must be in Croatian language and Latin script or in official language of Member State of European Union and Latin script, and may be used Arabic numerals;
• other company components must be in the Croatian language and Latin script;
• company name can be translated into one or more languages and as such appear in the incorporation documents;
• the court will refuse to register a name that are protected by other legislation (in the case of application of the same company name to the same register court).

Step 2: The Public notary must seal the documents necessary for company registration. When paying a visit to a public notary, take your ID card or passport with you. All founders and other persons whose signatures are to be verified must be present. If you don’t speak Croatian there must be a court interpreter for the language present (https://goo.gl/27UXFB).

Step 3: You can submit registration documentation sealed by the Public notary to the HITRO.HR who can deliver documents for court registration and to the National Bureau of Statistics for you. You can make the payment of court fees and the initial capital at HITRO.HR. You will receive an RPS Form that you’ll have to fill out. All required forms and payment slips are available at HITRO.HR counters free of charge.

Step 4: Once you complete the registration, your company needs to make an official stamp and open a business account in order to transfer the initial capital to your company account.

Where

HITRO.HR

web: https://goo.gl/J1I00j

e-mail: info@hitro.hr

tel: 0800 0080

Hitro.hr offices: https://goo.gl/uG2c0b

Attention

After your company has been entered into the Court Register and the Register of the Central Bureau of Statistics, you must register your company with the relevant Tax Authority, whose jurisdiction is determined based on your company’s seat.