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the new guy · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 127

I am NON EU and need to set up my company so my school can pay me. Not married, so I can't do this off my wifes company.

I found this online- http://www.paiz.gov.pl/index/?id=4f8bc5ac1dc2b49434efe9e72f183de8

3. Individual conducting of business activity and civil partnership

Among the least complicated forms of conducting business activity, which are permitted to each Polish entrepreneur and (according to the article 13 of the Economic Freedom Act) to entrepreneurs from the European Economic Area, one can name individual conducting of business activity and civil partnership.
Entrepreneurs from outside the EEA can operate only in the form of:

limited liability company,
joint-stock company,
limited partnership,
limited joint-stock partnership.

Well 2 & 3 & 4 dont apply.

If you did an LLC, how long did the process take?
How painful was it?
Did you have to prove that you had the 50,000zl required?
Did you have to open a new bank account for the business, or use your own?
How much in fees did you pay out to get this all done?

Harry from NWE · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 283

You want to set yourself up a sole trader and you can do just that.

the new guy · Joined: 19 Oct 2006 Posts: 127

Sooooooooo after going through my lawyer who is an expert in Business law, there is no agreements in place with PL and Canada.... so the "Sole Trader" is not an option.

He even contacted Mr. Dabrowski, who confirmed the fact there is no agreement.

SO what options have other Canucks have??

THx.

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

None, according to the above. Setting up a limited liability company would be hugely complex, much more so than setting up a partnership.

So. You need to find somebody who can set up a company.

Either: i) marry a Pole; or ii) get an EU (or American) friend, or pay an EU or US citizen, to set up a company for you (but you would stilll have the problem of finding a way of transferring the money legally from the company to you); or iii) don't come to Poland expecting to be paid (I assume that you weren't daft enough to start work in Poland illegally in the vague hope that things would work out somehow and that the EU would make an exception especially for you.)