Is a company right for you?
- Choosing a company name
- How will your company operate?
- Do you need a company constitution, or will you use the Replaceable Rules?
- There are strict duties on directors. Understand your obligations as a company officeholder.
- Get consent from officeholders, members and occupiers
- Register your company
- Do you need a shareholders’ agreement about duties and obligations between each other?
- Register your company’s website domain name.
- Register your company logo and other intellectual property of the company
- After your company is registered apply for Tax file, register for GST (ABN), open bank accounts.
- Register with Taxation Office “OneTouch” system.
- Attend to business licensing
- How will you keep accounts and records? Do you have the inhouse skills to meet you reporting obligations such as employee tax withholding, superannuation obligations?
Register a trading name
- Choose your ‘Business name’
- Provide your proposed business name and Australian Business Number (ABN)
- Decide the appropriate registration period
- Enter the business name holder’s details.
- Enter the proposed business name’s addresses
- Confirm the eligibility to hold the business name.
- Make payment and confirm your transaction
- Once you’ve made payment, you’ll see a confirmation screen. Once payment has been made, your business name should be registered within 48 hours.
https://asic.gov.au/for-business/registering-a-company/steps-to-register-a-company/
