Author: Secretariat

We warmly invite you to our next Technical Workshop, to take place on Tuesday 29 March 2022 at 0630 UTC.

The workshop will be hosted by Companies House, UK and will take place via MS Teams.

About the Workshop
This workshop aims to explore the work Companies House is doing to help directors understand their responsibilities better.

We will provide an overview of recent external communications campaigns that have used a variety of approaches to encourage compliance and online filing behaviours.

We’ll also share our future plans to use behavioural insights and evidence from user research to improve customer outputs, reduce avoidable contact and achieve key business outcomes.

CRF Newsletter, March 2022

March 2022

Here is our March 2022 edition of the CRF Newsletter.

In this edition we look forward to our upcoming Technical Workshop and are delighted to announce a return to an in-person conference this year.

If you have any feedback, ideas, an article or suggestions for next quarter’s newsletter please don’t hesitate to email the secretariat@corporateregistersforum.org

Download or read the newsletter here CRF Newsletter – March 2022

Appointment of Acting Head of the State Tax Service of Azerbaijan

June 2020 Azerbaijan CRF News

Mr. Orkhan Nazarli has been appointed as the Acting Head of State Tax Service (STS) of Azerbaijan. In October 2019, Ministry of Taxes of Azerbaijan was incorporated into the structure of the Ministry of Economy as State Tax Service. The STS is responsible for business registrations for Azerbaijan. In May of 2020 the Charter of the State Tax Service (STS) under the Ministry of Economy was endorsed and Mr. Orkhan Nazarli was appointed an Acting Head of STS.

Mr. Nazarli throughout his career held several senior positions in a foreign auditing company and later in civil service. Prior to his latest assignment, he has been serving as an Adviser to Minister of Taxes and Head of Main Department of National Revenues under the Ministry of Taxes. We welcome Mr Nazarli to the CRF community.

Azerbaijan introduces one-click registration of businesses

September 2019

Azerbaijan One-Click. The Ministry of Taxes of the Republic of Azerbaijan have announced that from the beginning of 2019 a single procedure (including VAT registration and opening a bank account) is needed for LLCs’ with local investments to be state registered online. All procedures that were previously in place have been abolished including the necessity of validation of e-application with electronic signature. As a result, number of procedures has been decreased from 3 to 1; the duration of the procedure was reduced to 20 minutes, while requirement of financial resources, as well as number of documents have been eliminated. For more read here.

Upcoming forum “Accelerating into a Digital Future: Simplifying Entity Identification for the Digital Age”

August 2019 GLEIF LEI

CRF members are invited to attend this event hosted by GLEIF.

The future of secure digital identity matters for competitiveness and security in a global and digital economy. During the forum, GLEIF will discuss about their approach of materializing the benefits of LEI by growing the number of LEIs from 1,4 million currently to 40-50 million in a few years. Attendees will have the chance to engage in discussions with regulators and technology providers about how the LEI could be leveraged to enable straight-through processing, enhance entity identification efficiency, support blockchain and distributed ledger technology in use cases such as data management, client onboarding and trade finance.

The Forum will be held at the Hamilton Hotel Almas/Sphinx on K Conference Center in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, 24 October 2019. from 1:30 to 5:00 p.m.

If interested please kindly register your attendance by 11 Oct via below link: http://gleif-washington-forum.eventbrite.com/

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International Business Registers Report 2018

April 2019 Benchmarking IBRR

The 2018 International Business Registers Report has been published.

The report is structured to reflect the diversity of respondents and the joint commitment by the four worldwide registry organisations ASORLAC (Association of Registers of Latin America and the Caribbean), CRF (Corporate Registers Forum), ECRF (European Commerce Registers’ Forum) and IACA (International Association of Commercial Administrators) in supporting this work on behalf of their members.

Click to view the International Business Registers Report-2018

Important note for users of the International Business Registers Report.

We want to make sure the data we publish is relevant to our users. We’re requesting feedback from our users about their opinions of the International Business Register Report.

We want to understand what matters to you, and the impact of the data on you and your work. With your feedback, we can dedicate our resource to develop our survey, analysis and any supporting material.

The outcome of your responses will be taken into consideration, and there may be changes to our next survey and report to be distributed in 2020.

Please consider providing your views and take about 10-15 minutes to respond to the consultation questions.

Here’s the link for the user consultation: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/InternationalBusinessRegisterReportUserConsultation