Shanghai WFOE Registration Materials Provided Service
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About WFOE
The Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE or WOFE) is a Limited liability company wholly owned by the foreign investor(s). In China, WFOEs were originally conceived for encouraged manufacturing activities that were either export orientated or introduced advanced technology. However, after China's entried into the WTO, these conditions were gradually abolished and the WFOE is increasingly being used for service providers such as a variety of consulting and management services, software development and trading as well. With that, any enterprise in China which is 100% owned by a foreign company or companies can be called as WFOE.
Characteristics of a WFOE
Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE), also known as Wholly Owned Foreign Enterprise (WOFE), is a limited liability company, the establishment of which is governed both by the Company Law of PRC and Law of the PRC on Enterprises Operating Exclusively with Foreign Capital.
A WFOE can engage itself in approved business activities and issue tax invoices on its own. It is a corporation and a tax resident. All shareholders of WFOE should not be Chinese nationals.
Advantages of WFOE
Independence and freedom to implement the worldwide strategies of its parent company without having to consider the involvement of the Chinese partner;
Ability to formally carry out business rather than just function as a representative office and being able to issue invoices to customers in RMB and receive revenues in RMB;
Capability of converting RMB profits to US dollars for remittance to its parent company outside of China;
Protection of intellectual know-how and technology;
Full control of human resources
Greater efficiency in operations, management and future development.
newInvestor's parent company does not have to be established for more than 2 years while for Representative Office, it's parent company is required to have been established for more than 2 years.
Name of a WFOE
The name of the WFOE is governed by “Regulations on the Management of name of Enterprises”. Since WFOE is a limited liability company, its name should be in the form of “Name of City + Name of the Enterprise +Industry+ Company Limited “. Accordingly, a company registered in Shanghai will normally bear a name like: USCorp Software Development (Shanghai) Limited.
Material needed
I. Investing as a foreign corporate:
(1) 3 company Chinese names at least;
(2) 2 original Notarization of the business license or certificate of incorporation of the parent company（It should be notarized by domestic notarization Department and endorsed by local China Embassy）;
(3) 1 original bank reference letter（It is opened from investor's bank, the deposit money is not less than the registered capital in China, issued within 6 months in both English and Chinese version）;
(4) Recent 1 year Audit report from foreign investing company;
(5)Registered Capitalthe registered capital of International Freight Forwarding Agent Company is 5 millions, proportion of investment and business scope;
(6) Three photos of Legal Representative, the copy passport of Legal Representative;
(7) M&A and Feasibility Study Report (Tannet provides with standard template);
(8) A set of documents require for investors and Shanghai legal representative’s signatures (Tannet provides);
(9) Contract of rent
Manufacturing enterprise：original Contract of rent in triplicate，3 copies of house-owner certificate（The house should be rent in the name of the investor or the company, more than 200 square meters // Lease period :more than one year // Use for the plant）;
Non-production enterprise：original Contract of rent in triplicate，3 copies of house-owner certificate（The house should be rent in the name of the investor or the company, more than 30 square meters // Lease period: more than one year // Use for office or business）;
II. Investing as natural persons:
(1) 3 company names at least;
(2) Providing investors’ passport（It should be notarized by domestic notarization Department and endorsed by local China Embassy）;
(3) 1 original bank reference letter（It is opened from investor's bank, the deposit money is not less than the registered capital in China, issued within 6 months in both English and Chinese version）;
(4)RegisteredCapitalthe registered capital of International Freight Forwarding Agent Company is 5 millions , proportion of investment and business scope;
(5) Three photos of Legal Representative, the copy passport of Legal Representative;
(6) M&A and Feasibility Study Report (Tannet provides with standard template);
(7) A set of documents require for investors and Shanghai legal representative’s signatures (Tannet provides);
(8) Contract of rent
Manufacturing enterprise：original Contract of rent in triplicate，2 copies of house-owner certificate（The house should be rent in the name of the investor or the company, more than 200 square meters // Lease period :more than one year // Use for the plant）;
Non-production enterprise：original Contract of rent in triplicate，2 copies of house-owner certificate（The house should be rent in the name of the investor or the company, more than 30 square meters // Lease period: more than one year // Use for office or business）;
Note:(1).all the documents submitted to government should be signed by black ink pen(2)if documents involved in foreign language must be translated into Chinese and those documents should be stamped by translation company
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