(1) |
Answering client’s questions regarding the restoration of a company; |
(2) |
Reviewing materials provided by client; |
(3) |
Carrying a company search with the Companies Registry, checking and confirming all outstanding issues, such as outstanding Annual Returns; |
(4) |
Checking with tax authority whether there is any outstanding tax return or business registration certificates and penalty; |
(5) |
Preparation of a schedule detailing all outstanding issues with relevant official filing fees and penalty to be settled in order to restore the company for client’s reference; |
(6) |
Preparation of restoration documents, minutes of meetings of directors and members and annual returns; |
(7) |
Filing of documents for administrative restoration application; |
(8) |
Filing of annual returns and payment of filing fees; |
(9) |
Renewal of business registration certificates and payment of business registration fees and penalties; |
(10) |
Handling the change of company secretary, if applicable; |
(11) |
Handling the change of registered office address, if applicable. |
(1) |
Our fee quoted above does not cover the payment of annual return statutory filing fee and/or penalty of late filing of annual return(s) and business registration fee for the period from the date of strike off to the date of restoration. |
(2) |
Once after the company is official reinstated, it is required to have a company secretary and registered office. Our fees quoted above do not cover the company secretary and registered office services. |
(3) |
Our fee quoted above does not cover courier charge. |
No. |
Services |
Fee (USD) |
1 |
Acting as Company Secretary, per annum (Note 1) |
450 |
2 |
Registered Office address, per annum (Note 2) |
350 |
3 |
Acting as Designated Representative, per annum (Note 3) |
160 |
(1) |
A Hong Kong company is required by the Companies Ordinance to appoint a local resident or resident company to act as its company secretary. Our fees include: (a) Companies Registry (CR) Compliance Alert & Reminders; (b) Named Company Secretary registered with CR for 12 months; (c) Updating and maintenance of statutory records, including the register of member and directors, register of charges and share transfer register; (d) Preparation and filing of Annual Return Kaizen’s duties, as company secretary, are limited to those listed above only. General secretarial services, including transfer of shareholder, change of director, increase of share capital and preparation of minuets are to be charged separately. |
(2) |
A Hong Kong registered company is required to have a Hong Kong street address as its registered office. The address provided by Kaizen can be used for both the registration of your company and receiving mails from the Hong Kong Government and your business partners. Two options for handling incoming letters: (a) Kaizen will open, scan the mails received, and send the scanned copies to your designated email account once a month. The paper letters will be destroyed one month after the date the scanned mails are sent to you. (b) Kaizen will forward mails received to the address designated by you once a month. Actual postage will be charged separately. Kaizen will take option 1 by default if no instruction has been received from you during incorporation. If mails are to be scanned and forwarded immediately, a handling fee of USD10 per batch/time will be charged. |
(3) |
Kaizen or its associated company will act as the designated representative of your Hong Kong company. The responsibilities of the designated representative include updating and maintaining the Significant Controller Register and liaison and providing assistance relating to the company’s SCR to a law enforcement officer. |
(1) |
Copy of Certificate of Incorporation, Articles of Association and the latest business registration certificate; |
(2) |
Copy of the latest annual return; |
(3) |
Copy of statutory registers (if any); |
(4) |
Copy of latest financial statements, if applicable; |
(5) |
Copy of latest notice of assessment or correspondence from the tax authority; |
(6) |
The identification and address proof of each member and director; |
(7) |
Ground for application for restoration. |
Step |
Description |
Time (Day) |
1 |
Client confirms engagement with Kaizen. Kaizen issues an invoice (for service fee) to client for settlement. |
1 |
2 |
Client collects and deliver to Kaizen the materials listed in Section 5 and at the same time, settles client’s invoice. |
Client’s schedule |
3 |
Kaizen carries out a company search with CR and IRD, calculates and confirms with client the total outstanding official fees. |
1 |
4 |
Client issues a second invoice (for outstanding official filing fee penalties) to client and clients arranges payment of these fees. |
Client’s schedule |
5 |
Kaizen prepares restoration application documents and annual return and delivers them to client for signing. |
1 |
6 |
Clients signs off the documents and delivers the duly signed documents to Kaizen by courier. |
Client’s schedule |
7 |
Kaizen files the outstanding annual returns and arranges payment of outstanding statutory filing fees and penalties. |
1 |
8 |
Kaizen arranges renewal of business registration certificates and payment of business registration fees and penalties. |
1 |
9 |
Kaizen files application documents with the Companies Registry |
1 |
10 |
Companies Registry reviews documents received and issues a letter confirming that the company is restored. |
14-28 |
11 |
Kaizen forwards the notice to client. All procedures completed. |
1 |
Total: 3 - 5 weeks |