Company registration in Poland
We will choose the road your Polish company should take, draft or complete the agreement it needs, file it with the registry court and hand over the entry with the tax numbers.
Court fee, template
Пошлина, шаблон
250 zł
250 злотых
Court fee, notarial
Пошлина, нотариус
500 zł
500 злотых
Template examined in
Шаблон смотрят за
1 day
1 день
Share capital
Уставный капитал
5,000 zł
5 000 злотых
When you need company registration in Poland
The decision is needed this week
An agreement drawn on the standard template is examined by the registry court within one day of arriving. Everything else waits up to seven.
Your agreement needs its own clauses
The template cannot be edited. Preference shares, a tailored exit or an unusual voting rule mean a deed drawn up by a notary instead.
Someone contributes more than money
Where the template is used, only cash may cover the capital. Equipment, code or a licence as a contribution rules that route out.
The capital is not in the account yet
On the template route the capital is covered no later than seven days after the entry. On the notarial route it is in before the filing.
Costs are being counted to the zloty
The court fee is 250 zlotys on the template route and 500 on the other. The separate announcement charge disappeared in November 2025.
What you get
- A company on the register of entrepreneurs
- The agreement in the form your case needs
- The tax and statistical numbers
- A written view of the two routes
- The beneficial owner recorded
What is required to register a company in Poland
A Polish limited company is registered along one of two roads, and they do not lead to the same company. One is fast, cheap and closed to anything unusual; the other is slower, costs twice as much at the court and accepts whatever the shareholders actually agreed. The choice is made before a single document is drafted.
The rest of what we do in the country is set out on the Poland page. To compare this against setting the company up somewhere else, begin at company registration.
What the law asks of every route
- Share capital of at least 5,000 zlotys, with no share carrying a nominal value below 50 zlotys.
- An agreement naming the company, its seat, the object of the business and how long it will run.
- Identification of every shareholder, and of the management board that will sign for the company.
- A list of shareholders with the number and nominal value of the shares each of them holds.
- A registered address the court will accept, and the beneficial owner reported to the central register.
Two roads, and what each one costs
| Filing | Court fee |
|---|---|
| First entry, agreement on the standard template | 250 zł |
| First entry, agreement in notarial form | 500 zł |
| Later change of registered data | 250 zł |
| Later change made on a standard resolution form | 200 zł |
Until 29 November 2025 an announcement in the official gazette was published on top of each of these and charged separately. The amending statute of 26 September 2025 removed the duty, and with it that charge.
What separates the two roads
The standard template
The agreement is completed on a form inside the ministry system and signed with a qualified, trusted or personal electronic signature. Only cash covers the capital, and it may be paid up to seven days after the entry.
The notarial deed
The agreement is drawn by a notary, may say whatever the shareholders want and may be covered by a contribution in kind. Before the filing the whole board declares that every contribution has been made in full.
Moving between them later
A company founded on the template may be amended by notarial deed afterwards, and from that point a contribution in kind becomes possible on an increase of capital.
What follows the entry
- Tax on civil law transactions at 0.5% of the capital, payable on the company agreement itself.
- Corporate income tax at 19%, or 9% on income other than capital gains while revenue stays under the two-million-euro line.
- The beneficial owner reported to the central register, and the company account opened so the capital can be covered on time.
Sources: capital, the template and contributions — articles 154, 157(1), 158 and 167 of the Commercial Companies Code; the one-day and seven-day periods — article 20a of the Act on the National Court Register; fees — articles 52 and 55 of the Act on court costs; the gazette duty repealed — the act of 26 September 2025; rates — the transactions tax act and the corporate income tax act.
Stages of work
The road picked before the papers
We start from what the shareholders have actually agreed. Preference shares, an unusual exit or a contribution in kind decide the road by themselves, and the rest of the plan follows that decision.
The name and the seat
The proposed name is checked against the register, the object of the business is settled in the classification the filing expects, and an address the court will accept is arranged.
The agreement drafted or completed
On the template road the form is filled in and signed electronically by every shareholder. On the other, we draft the agreement and take it to a notary, who draws it as a deed.
The filing with the registry court
The application goes in through the judicial registers portal with the list of shareholders, the board's declarations and the fee, and the court examines it in one day or in seven.
The capital and the transactions tax
The account is opened and the capital covered on the schedule the chosen road sets, and the 0.5% tax on the agreement is declared and paid.
The numbers and the beneficial owner
The tax and statistical numbers arrive with the entry. We report the beneficial owner to the central register and hand over the deadlines the first year runs on.
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