Vienna · corporate services
Business in Austria and company formation in Austria
We register GmbHs and FlexKapGs in the Firmenbuch, sell ready-made Austrian companies, and stay on the file through the bank account, the UID number and the first tax return. In English, and most clients never travel to Vienna.
What we handle
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Company formation
GmbH and FlexKapG, from the name check to the Firmenbuch entry. Non-resident founders can complete most of it without coming to Austria.
EUR 10 000 capital · half in cash
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Shelf companies
Registered Austrian companies that already exist, with a clean history and a bank account, transferred to you by notarial deed.
Already in the register
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Financial licences
Authorisation from the FMA for investment firms, fund managers and payment services, including the capital you must show.
WAG 2018 · WPFG · InvFG 2011
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Residence permit
The routes that let a founder or a key employee live in Austria, and the income and qualification each one asks for.
Rot-Weiß-Rot card · self-employment
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Bank account
Opening a corporate account in Austria: the documents banks ask a foreign owner for, how the compliance review runs, and what to do after a refusal.
Compliance review, not a form
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Taxes
Corporate income tax, VAT, payroll contributions and withholding, with the thresholds that apply to an Austrian company in 2026.
23% corporate income tax
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Accounting
Bookkeeping to Austrian standards, payroll, annual accounts and the filings the register expects from you every year.
Doppelte Buchführung · UGB
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Business in Austria
What running a company here involves: legal forms, the trade licence question, and the obligations that continue after registration.
Legal forms and duties
Read before you decide
The questions that change what a formation costs and how long it takes.
Ask about your own case- GmbH, FlexKapG or a branch?What each legal form asks of you, and which one suits a company with no Austrian shareholder.
- Buy a shelf company or register a new one?When an existing company genuinely saves time, and when it just costs more.
- Do you need a trade licence?The Gewerbeberechtigung question decides whether you can trade the week you register.
- How Austrian counterparties expect to be dealt withTitles, punctuality and the written follow-up that is taken for granted here.
- Does investing buy residence?What Austrian law actually offers an investor, and what it does not.
- Who handles your fileThe people in the Vienna office and how a matter moves from enquiry to register entry.
Start here
Tell us what you need in Austria
Say which company you want and where you are resident. You get back a price, a document list and the steps that need you in person — usually none.
- Reply
- 1–2 hours, Mon–Fri 09:00–18:00 CET
- [email protected]
- Phone
- +43 1 20511601000
- Office
- Kärntner Ring 5, 1010 Vienna
- 01We answer with a price and a document list, and say plainly if what you want is not possible in Austria.
- 02You send scans. Certified copies and an apostille are needed for some documents; we say which before you pay for any of it.
- 03We book the notary and file with the Firmenbuch. Most clients never travel to Vienna.