{"id":5114,"date":"2023-09-05T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/how-long-does-it-take-to-deregister-a-hong-kong-company\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:13:29","slug":"how-long-does-it-take-to-deregister-a-hong-kong-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/how-long-does-it-take-to-deregister-a-hong-kong-company\/","title":{"rendered":"How long does it take to deregister a Hong Kong company?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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It takes about 6 to 9 months for a Hong Kong company to be deregistered<\/h2>

The application will be published twice in the Gazette. After the publication of the first Gazette notice, there will be a period of 3 months to lodge objections. If no objection is received by the Registrar during that period, a second Gazette notice will be published and the company will be dissolved. The applicant will be notified after the completion of the deregistration process and the dissolution of the company.<\/p>

A “Notice of No Objection to Deregistration” must be submitted to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) within 25 working days after the applicant submits a valid application form and pays the relevant fee.<\/p>

The Commissioner of Inland Revenue will issue a Notice of No Objection if:<\/p>

  1. the company has never commenced business or has ceased to operate;<\/li>
  2. The company will not commence\/reopen for business;<\/li>
  3. the Company has disposed of all its inventory, properties and securities;<\/li>
  4. the company has no outstanding taxes including profits tax, property tax, stamp duty, business registration fees and penalties and court costs in connection with such taxes;<\/li>
  5. The company has no outstanding obligations under the Inland Revenue Ordinance, including failure to return a tax return issued by the Inland Revenue Department, notifying the Commissioner of Inland Revenue in writing that the company is chargeable for any year of assessment but has not received a tax return for that year;<\/li>
  6. the company has not replied to any enquiries issued by the Inland Revenue Department;<\/li>
  7. There are no pending objections or appeals against a company’s assessment.<\/li><\/ol>

    If the company does not meet any of the above conditions, it will not be issued with a No Objection Notice.<\/p>

    Gazette https:\/\/www.gld.gov.hk\/egazette\/tc_chi\/gazette\/disclaimer.php of the Government of the<\/a> Hong Kong Special Administrative Region<\/p>

    Companies Registry https:\/\/www.cr.gov.hk\/tc\/faq\/local-company\/dereg-striking-off-winding-up.htm<\/a><\/p>

    Inland Revenue https:\/\/www.ird.gov.hk\/chi\/tax\/bre_cbr.htm<\/a><\/p>

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    It takes about 6 to 9 months for a Hong Kong company to be deregistered The application will be published twice in the Gazette. After the publication of the first Gazette notice, there will be a period of 3 months to lodge objections. If no objection is received by the Registrar during that period, a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4528,"comment_status":"open","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":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deregistration-of-the-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","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=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5115,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions\/5115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reaphk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}