The situation
A new client’s plans: a Czech company with a shop, staff and online sales to Slovakia
An e-bike retailer from Linz is opening a Czech company in Brno with a shop, a workshop and four staff from March. It will buy its stock from the Austrian parent and also sell online to consumers in Slovakia. The managing director has asked your firm what needs registering, with whom and by when, in one list she can work through.
Nothing on the list is unusual. The time goes on making it complete for this client: what the trade licence needs, which tax registrations the company files itself, when VAT becomes compulsory, what the employer must do before the first payroll, and whether the Slovak sales need anything at all.
What the research has to settle
The rules behind the answer
- A trade authorisation comes before trading
- Selling and repairing bicycles needs a trade authorisation before the shop opens. The trade fields are notified to the trade office, and the company’s statistical activity codes are recorded separately.
- VAT can arrive before the turnover threshold
- Czech VAT registration becomes compulsory once turnover passes the statutory threshold, and a company can register voluntarily before. Buying stock from the Austrian parent can create a VAT obligation of its own earlier; the research confirms the current threshold and when each obligation starts.
- Employing staff brings registrations of its own
- Before the first payroll the company registers as an employer for wage tax with the tax office, with the social security administration and with each employee’s health insurer. Each has its own deadline after the first hire.
- Sales to Slovak consumers follow EU rules
- Online sales to consumers in Slovakia are distance sales. Below the EU-wide threshold they follow the rules of the country where the seller is established. Above it, Slovak VAT applies and can be declared through the One-Stop Shop instead of registering in Slovakia.
How it runs in azta
From the question to the document
The question, as you would type it
Austrian retailer sets up a Czech s.r.o. in Brno: shop selling and repairing e-bikes, stock bought from the Austrian parent, four employees from March, online sales to Slovak consumers. Which tax, employer and trade registrations does the company need, by when, and which activity codes fit?
You start with
A new client’s plans: a Czech company with a shop, staff and online sales to Slovakia
- 01
Describe the new client
Set out the company, its activities, staff, suppliers and customers. azta searches the Czech tax, trade and social security legislation and the EU VAT rules.
Cited research· Free - 02
Classify the activities
Describe what the shop and workshop do. azta proposes NACE activity codes for the main and secondary activities, with its reasoning.
Activity-code classification· Free - 03
Check each deadline
Ask for the deadline for each registration and what starts it: incorporation, first hire or first sale. Every deadline comes with the provision it rests on.
Cited research· Free - 04
Turn it into a checklist
Ask for a checklist in two parts, before opening and before the first payroll. Edit it in Canvas and send it to the client.
Canvas · Ask azta· Pro You send
A checklist of tax, employer and trade registrations with deadlines and activity codes
What you get
A checklist of tax, employer and trade registrations with deadlines and activity codes
Checklist · draft
Brno company: registrations before and after opening
Before opening. Trade authorisation for retail and for bicycle repair, with the trade fields listed in section 1. Registration with the tax office for corporate income tax, within the period set out in section 2. Activity codes: retail sale of bicycles as the main activity and repair as secondary, with the reasoning in section 3.
Before the first payroll. Registration as an employer for wage tax with the tax office, notification to the social security administration and to each employee’s health insurer. The deadlines run from the first employee’s start date; each is listed with its source in section 4.
VAT and Slovak sales. The company starts below the VAT registration threshold, which we will monitor monthly, but the stock purchases from Linz are checked separately in section 5. Sales to Slovak consumers stay under Czech rules until the EU-wide distance-sales threshold is passed.
Outcomes on your numbers
What azta is worth on this task
Pro pays for itself after
17 minutes a month
At €100 an hour, that is all the time Pro (€27 a month) has to take off your desk to cover its price.
Example figures. Replace them with your own.
- Hours back a year
- 27
- Capacity at your rate
- €2,700
- More registration checklists for new clients a quarter
- 2.3
- Return on Pro
- 8.3×
- Research
- Drafting
- Your review
A scenario you set, not a promise. The hours that come back go to another client, or deeper into this one.
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Book a demoWhat stays with you
- Confirming the client’s start dates, employee numbers and turnover plans.
- Filing the registrations, which azta does not do.
- Keeping the list current as the plans change.
Frequently asked questions
- Does azta file the registrations?
- No. It researches, cites and drafts the checklist. Filing stays with you or the client.
- Are the proposed activity codes final?
- No. azta proposes codes with its reasoning. You confirm them with the client before they go on any form.
- Can every new-client checklist look the same?
- Ask the same question with the new facts and azta researches it again for that client. On Enterprise, firm templates keep the format consistent.
