Commercial organizations (whether limited companies, sole proprietorships or partnerships) must apply to the Business Registration Office of the Inland Revenue Department for business registration, and registered businesses must pay a registration fee to obtain a business registration certificate.

According to the Hong Kong Business Registration Ordinance, anyone doing business in Hong Kong must apply for business registration within 1 month after starting business, and display a valid business registration certificate at the place of business.

Extended data:

1, the commercial registration system has a strong public law nature.

It takes the rights and obligations between unequal subjects as the adjustment object. From the applicant's point of view, its rights and obligations are not equal to those of the parties as the counterpart, but the registration authority as the counterpart is usually a state organ, which thinks that it is not a partial publicity of commercial law, but a comprehensive publicity of the whole commercial registration system.

2. The business registration system is very compulsory.

Most commercial registration systems cannot be chosen by the parties. Although the registration authority in the legal relationship of commercial registration does not directly interfere with the relationship of commercial rights and obligations, registration and its corresponding necessary procedures require market participants to engage in specific commercial activities.

This access mechanism is still a direct manifestation of government intervention in economic life. If the industrial and commercial registration procedures are combined with the examination and approval authority, strong government intervention will be formed.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Business Registration Certificate