Shareholders and members of the board of the company being established may be citizens of Estonia or another country. Secondly, the country is known for the low level of bureaucratization of state processes. This facilitates the procedure for permits obtaining. Third, Estonia is one of the leaders in the level of electronic document management development. Remotely it is possible to carry out the company registration, filing documents for obtaining a license, tax returns and so on.
Preferred Legal Organizational Form
The insurance license in Estonia is issued to companies registered in accordance with national legislation. Most often these are limited liability companies (Osauhing, OU). The authorized fund of such companies is distributed among the participants. A certain share belongs to each. The company is liable within the value of the property. Individual liability of participants for obligations is not provided. There are no mandatory requirements for an audit performance. An exception is when two or more conditions are met:
- income – from 2 million euros;
- asset value – from 1 million euros;
- the number of employees is from 30 people.
The zero rate of value-added tax is applied to insurance activity.