Your business in Serbia, at every stage
Business in Serbia has four stages, and we act for foreign owners at all of them: registration, the day to day compliance that follows it, the changes that come later, and a clean closure at the end. A foreign national may own 100% of a Serbian company at every one of those stages.
They are worth planning together rather than one at a time. How the company is set up decides how simply it runs, and both decide how easily it can be wound up if you ever need to: a voluntary liquidation takes 120 days at the very least, and a company abandoned rather than closed leaves its owner personally liable without limit.
- Ownership
- 100% foreign ownership permitted
- Tax
- Rates depend on the form you register
- Closing it
- For LLC 120 days minimum, so plan early
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Pick the stage your business in Serbia is at
Four stages, and the work is different at each one. Choose where you are to see what it involves, or ask us if the honest answer is more than one.
Opening a company
LLC, entrepreneur, or branch office. Founding documents, BRA registration, and the tax identification number, with residence planned alongside where you intend to live here.
Full page →Choosing the structure
Which entity suits your activity, your liability appetite, and your tax position, decided before anything is filed rather than after.
Enquire →Corporate bank account
Bank selection, account opening, and signature cards. We confirm each bank's in-person requirements before you commit to travel.
Enquire →The company is the easy part
Registration takes days. What takes months is the sequence around it: apostilles obtained in the wrong order, a bank that will not open the account, a residence application refused because the corporate file was assembled for the registrar rather than the immigration authority.
- Sequenced, not siloed
- Company, tax, banking and residence are planned as one timeline so no stage waits on a document nobody ordered.
- Handled in English
- Every document explained before you sign it, and every question answered without a translator.
- Largely remote
- Most steps run on a power of attorney. We tell you in advance the few that genuinely require you in the room.
- Straight answers
- Where a plan will not work, you are told at the assessment, not after the fees are paid.
Tell us what your business in Serbia needs
Describe your situation in a sentence or two, on whichever channel suits you. You will receive a written outline of the route, the documents, and the order they must be done in, not a sales pitch.
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