Register a company in Poland

Yes. The notarial route runs via an apostilled power of attorney; the S24 portal works for holders of EU e-signatures. KRS, tax numbers, and CRBR follow remotely. Banks vary: some onboard by video, some prefer one meeting. We route you accordingly.

Turnkey registration is €2,550 all-in, including the court fee, the PCC tax and the first-year address. Company + EU Trade, with VAT-UE, an EORI number and an apostilled set, is €3,600, and Company + Bank & Accounting, with the account and the first 3 months of accounting, is €5,600. Renewal with accounting starts at €1,500 per year.

Standard: 19% on profits and 19% on dividends. Small taxpayers (revenue up to €2M) and companies in their first tax year pay 9% CIT on income other than capital gains. The IP Box reduces qualifying product income to 5%, and the Estonian-CIT election taxes profit mainly when it is distributed, at 10% or 20%. We model which combination fits before you commit.

Small taxpayers, meaning companies with revenue up to €2 million (PLN 8,431,000 for 2026), on their income other than capital gains - and companies in their first tax year, unless formed by converting an existing business. Status is checked annually, and we track the threshold as you grow.

Income from qualifying IP (patents and copyrighted software you develop) is taxed at 5% instead of 19/9%, under nexus documentation linking the income to your R&D. Paired with the 200% R&D deduction of staff costs, product companies engineer dramatic effective rates. The documentation is the whole game, and we build it as you build the product.

Poland's deferral election, modeled on Tallinn: qualifying companies (individual shareholders only, employment-based conditions) pay CIT mainly when profits are distributed, at 10% for small taxpayers and new companies or 20% otherwise, and the combined rate with the shareholder's tax often lands below the classic route. For reinvesting businesses, it turns the company into a compounding machine. The election has entry conditions we check first.

Manageable with local hands, tedious without. ZUS handles social contributions through its own portal and calendar; VAT comes with the JPK e-reporting regime; and tax law is amended often enough that Poles joke about it. Our answer is process: Polish accountants who file on time and read every amendment so you don't have to.

Modern and thorough: PKO BP, Pekao, mBank, ING and Santander run some of Europe's best online banking in PLN and EUR. Foreign-owned companies pass real KYC (ownership chain, business story, sometimes a meeting). We prepare the file and pick the right desk; an EU EMI can run in parallel from day one.

Czechia wins on registry speed and engineering identity; Romania undercuts on costs with its micro-regime. Poland answers with the region's only mass market, its deepest talent pool, and the relief menu (9%, the 5% IP Box, Estonian CIT) that beats both when applied properly. Scale-plus-product cases usually land here. We recommend per case.

S24 filings usually register in 1-3 business days (the court's statutory limit for an S24 application is one day); the notarial route takes longer, including KRS, NIP and REGON. VAT registration adds several days to two weeks depending on the office's questions, and we front-load the answers. Banking adds one to two weeks. Reliefs elect on their own calendars, tracked from day one.