{"id":281,"date":"2020-10-05T15:20:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/?p=281"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T08:20:53","slug":"how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"How to open a company in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Choose the legal form<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several main types of companies and the process starts by choosing a suitable one. These business forms include the ordinary and the limited partnerships, the public and the limited companies and the sole trader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Select the available name<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of the new company is important and it needs to be a unique one that does not infringe other names already in use by registered Thai companies. A preliminary name check can be performed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Draw up the company documents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Thai company is incorporated through the registration of the Articles of Association and a Memorandum. These are bylaws of the company, it&#8217;s constitutive documents that include relevant information about the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Register the company<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Companies are required to register with the Department of Business Development belonging to the Ministry of Commerce. Founders submit a special application form, together with the company documents and other statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Obtain additional permits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some companies require additional licensing from Thai Ministries. Income tax and VAT registrations are also mandatory and are to take place within 60 days after incorporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand-410x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand-410x1024.png 410w, https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand-120x300.png 120w, https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand-768x1920.png 768w, https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/how-to-open-a-company-in-thailand.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choose the legal form There are several main types of companies and the process starts by choosing a suitable one. These business forms include the ordinary and the limited partnerships, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,32],"tags":[79,80,77,78,14,12,81,52],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-doing-business-in-thailand-foreigner-locals","category-living-in-thailand-as-a-foreigner","category-visa-permits-foreigners-in-thailand","tag-businesses","tag-dbd","tag-legal-form","tag-licenses","tag-register-business","tag-register-company","tag-revenuedepartment","tag-work-permit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unionspace.co.th\/doing-business-living-bangkok\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}