Régime dérogatoire mis en place à compter du 1er janvier 2009 pour les personnes qui exercent ou souhaitent exercer une activité indépendante sous forme d'entreprise individuelle et qui relèvent du régime fiscal de la micro-entreprise.

BizFile is an award-winning online filing and information retrieval system. It offers close to 300 e-services, serving as a one-stop facilitator for businesses. All steps required for company cration are described in detail and can be completed on-line.

This Company Creation Portal is a step-by-step guide for starting a business in Germany and provides detailed explanations on all required actions in a transparent and simple way. All the necessary information on locations, services and administrative procedures as well as required forms and documents are available on the web-site, which also p...

Business.gov helps small businesses understand their legal requirements and locate government services from federal, state and local agencies. Small business owners no longer need to visit multiple websites to find government programs, forms, contacts, and guidance with laws and regulations. Through its unique, award-winning search tools a...

The web site of the French Company Creation Agency offers detailed explanations on all the procedures necessary to start, operate and quit a business. It also displays the costs involved in each procedure and offers various interactive tools, which allow the entrepreneur to identify the right contact persons for specific issues related to a par...

The Company Registration Portal of Mauritius offers the following online services: Incorporation of a company Filing annual returns and other documents Payment of registration fee Registration of a business Search for company/business names and other details Entrepreneurs can register their company wi...

On-line registration of a company is possible within 24 hours, while detailed descriptions of each step are provided.

The portal contains detailed explanations on all steps required for company and intellectual property registration. It takes two to three weeks to register a company in South Africa, while a part of the procedure can be completed online, e.g. necessary forms can be downloaded, filled in and lodged electronically.

Corporations Canada provides detailed explanations on all steps required for compnay registration. For the four Jurisdictions Saskatchewan, Ontario, Newfoundland & Labrador and Nova Scotia are the entire process can be completed online. For the other Canadian jurisdictions, one has to register directly with them (also possible online on the...

A user friendly tool, which guides applicants through all the steps required for company registration. The majority of the procedure can be completed online, while the entire company creation process takes three days and can be carried out in a single place, with no need for a notary.

The Estonian company creation portal allows company creation online not only to Estonian national but also to holders of Belgian, Finnish, Lithuanian and Portuguese IDs. The average time to register a company online is 68 minutes. The fastest case is 18 minutes and the maximum time required for the completion of the registration is two working ...

The organizational scheme Empresa no dia (enterprise in a single day) allows for establishing companies in Cape Verde - immediately and at the same day, in an attending balcony of the Citizen’s House. This company creation process includes the facultative registration with the chamber of commerce, registration at the Portal Porton di nos ilha a...

The electronic one-stop-shop system e-Vem allows company creation online, using one single form, at no cost at all. The registration process takes less than a week and the initiative has resulted in savings of €10.2 million a year for Slovenian SMEs.

GovHK is the one-stop portal of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR)Government, making information and services of the public sector easier to find and use. The business section offers a wide range of key information for business. Companies are incorporated in four days in Hong Kong; they can initiate activities right after in...

The Procedures and Services Guide of the city of Bogota in Colombia contains inter alia detailed explanations on paths and procedures for creating and running businesses, paying taxes, trading as well as social security.

All required steps for company creation are explained in detail, including the length of procedures as well as locations and necessary documentation. The process of company incorporation can be followed online.

The law aims at providing small- and microenterprises with a special legal treatment to boost entrepreneurship among these groups. By this law the government reduces and simplifies tax requirements, duties and credit obligations in order to stimulate the creation of SMEs and micro enterprises.

The new french law on company creation is a break-through in terms of facilitating business and widening the scope of potential entrepreneurs. Several processes were grouped into one, which creates a one-stop shop for company creation in France. For the first time, the law allows for companies to be created online (see the corresponding E-Tool ...

The Economic Development Board of Madagascar provides a One-Stop Service for company creation for investors and entrepreneurs. All required forms can be downloaded from their website and in total 5 procedures are necessary to complete the company registration process, which takes 7 days.

As of the 1st of January 2008, business entities requesting the status of a commercial legal entity and physical persons who prefer to carry out business activities without creating a legal entity need to apply to only one state agency, that is to the relevant unit of the Ministry of Taxes. Only after submitting the necessary documents conta...

At this one-stop-shop investors are attended by representatives of Customs, Immigration, the Work Permit Department and the Company Registrar. It takes only three days to incorporate a company, against 21 days before. The exemption of imported goods used to take at least ten days, the process has been reduced to one day; the time for obtaining ...

Companies in Slovenia can be created in a single place with a single form, either online or through 270 single entry points, in less than a week, at no cost at all. Slovenia is the second country in the EU, after Denmark, to eliminate all start up fees.

Panama Emprende is a new concept where people wishing to start new businesses in Panama may do it in a simple way, with the sole obligation of informing the State that they are starting a new operation. The only step required for the start of a commercial, industrial or servicices activity in the territory of the Republic of Panama will be the ...

PanamaEmprende allows people to open their business, in a few minutes, in an electronic way, without the need for queues, procedures and additional costs. With this new system for the opening of companies, Panama is ranked among the first in the world in terms of speed and easiness to open companies.

The web site provides step-by-step explanations for all required actions for company creation in Switzerland. The applicant answers specific questions, which lead him to the relevant application sections. According to a study of the Winthertur University in Zurich, start-ups save up to 50 per cent of the time usually required to incorporate ...

The main objective of this portal is social inclusion: the creation of SMEs and micro enterprises is encouraged by informing the large part of society that operates informal businesses about the benefits of formalisation.

A step-by-step on-line guide to registering a company in Australia. The majority of steps can be completed online. Only registered ASIC agents are able to complete the procedure online, individuals must lodge a manual form, which can be downloaded from the website. The processing time, once the form is filed, is between 24 and 48 hours.

The Serviço de Contra Prova has revolutionised the way administrative authorisations and certificates are issued in Cape Verde. Each authorisation/certificate corresponds to a unique number, which de facto represents the document. Authorisations/certificates can be submitted or requesteed either the traditional way (Counter Service) or via t...

All required steps to register a company can be performed on the web-site. Detailed explanations on each step as well as animated demos are also provided.

Startups.ch is an electronic platform serving as a one-stop for company creation. All required forms can be filled and submitted online. The procedure takes in average 30 - 60 minutes. After successful submission of relevant data, the applicant will be contacted by the Startups.ch agents, who will generate all the necessary documentation for co...

Since 2006, incorporating a business in Georgia is free of charge, with three interactions and a maximum of three days. The total number of licenses and permits was reduced by 84%, in reforms that eliminated 756 licenses and permits and streamlined procedures. Furthermore, the Silence is Consent Rule applies, i.e. the registration authority ...

Detailed guide to company creation in Catalunya, including a description of required steps. All related forms can be downloaded from the web-site.