{"id":5038,"date":"2024-06-06T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T05:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/compliance-with-regulations-for-local-limited-companies\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:10:56","slug":"compliance-with-regulations-for-local-limited-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/compliance-with-regulations-for-local-limited-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Compliance with regulations for local limited companies"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5038\" class=\"elementor elementor-5038 elementor-3555\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-62142c3 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"62142c3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-83eaa3f\" data-id=\"83eaa3f\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6514718 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6514718\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Local limited company<\/strong><\/p><ol><li>The annual return is a form that a company submits to the Companies Registry every year to disclose the latest information of the company, such as registered address, directors, shareholders, etc.<\/li><li>A local private company is required to file an annual return for registration within 42 days after the anniversary of incorporation.<\/li><\/ol><ol start=\"3\"><li>For other local companies (e.g. listed companies, non-private companies, etc.), they are required to submit their annual returns for registration within 42 days after the date of the company&#8217;s returns. The date of the return depends on the type of company, please refer to the website of the Companies Registry for details.<\/li><\/ol><ol start=\"4\"><li>For registered non-Hong Kong companies, an annual return must be filed for registration within 42 days after each anniversary of the company&#8217;s registration in Hong Kong.<\/li><\/ol><ol start=\"5\"><li>The filing of annual returns helps to maintain the accuracy and transparency of the company&#8217;s information, which is an important obligation of the company under the law.<\/li><\/ol><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cr.gov.hk\/tc\/faq\/faq-compliance.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cr.gov.hk\/tc\/faq\/faq-compliance.htm<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local limited company The annual return is a form that a company submits to the Companies Registry every year to disclose the latest information of the company, such as registered address, directors, shareholders, etc. A local private company is required to file an annual return for registration within 42 days after the anniversary of incorporation. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,50,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-company-secretary-en","category-directors-shareholders","category-incorporation-of-a-limited-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}