the Tax Code of the RF).
3.6. Submission of Documents to the Registering Body
While establishing a profit organization, documents shall be submitted to the territorial authorities of the Federal Tax Service of Russia. The concrete office of the FTS of Russia is defined depending on the planned location of the sole executive body of the establishing legal entity. If the founders plan to place this body in Moscow, documents must be submitted to the Interdistrict Inspectorate of the FTS of Russia No. 46 for Moscow.[31]
Documents can be submitted personally, by mail, or via the internet (the latter requires an electronic signature).
While creating a non-profit organization, documents shall be submitted to the territorial authority of the Ministry of Justice of Russia, which makes decisions on the state registration of the non-profit organization.
3.7. Receipt of the Documents by the Registering Body, Confirming the Registration of the Establishment of the Legal Entity
The state registration of the establishment of profit organizations is carried out in a period of no more than 5 business days from the date of submission of the documents to the FTS of Russia. After the specified period, the applicant can use the same address of the territorial FTS of Russia, where he/she shall be provided with certificates on state registration, and the statement on tax accounting.
At the registration of a non-profit organization, the territorial body of the Ministry of Justice is obliged to make a decision on registration within 14 business days from the date of the submission of documents. After the adoption of this decision, the territorial authority of the Ministry of Justice of Russia sends the documents independently to the FTS of Russia, which is obliged to register the organization within 5 business days. The territorial authority of the Ministry of Justice of Russia issues a certificate of state registration within three business days from the date of receipt of information from the registering body, and enters this information of the non-profit organization into the USRLE.
3.8. Reorganization and Liquidation of Legal Entities
3.8.1. Reorganization
Clause 1 of Article 57 of the CC of the Russian Federation provides 5 possible forms of reorganization:
i) Merger
At a merger of two organizations, a third, new organization is formed (formula A+B→С). Thus, the rights and duties of the existing organizations are transferred to the newly created one.
ii) Accession
One organization is absorbed by the second, thus the second continues to exist in the updated form (formula A+B→B). Thus, the rights and duties of first organization are transferred to the second one.
iii) Division
The organization ceases its existence, and with its assets, new organizations are created (formula А→B, C). Thus, the rights and duties of the existing organization are transferred to the newly created ones, according to the Transfer Act.
iv) Spin-off
A new organization is spinned from the organization, therefore the old organization continues to exist (formula А→A, B). Thus, some rights and duties of the existing organization are transferred to the newly created one, according to the Transfer Act.
v) Transformation
The organization changes its organizational-legal form (formula А→А). Thus, the rights and duties of this legal entity do not change (except for the corporate rights and duties).
The combination of various forms in the course of reorganization is allowed (for example, merger plus transformation).
The decision on reorganization is made by a general meeting of the legal entity's participants, or the legal entity's other managing body which is authorized to act in this way as per the charter. In addition to the aforementioned decision, this body sets the conditions of reorganization and implementation, and approves of the transfer act.
After entering into the USRLE a record about the commencement of the reorganization procedure, a notice about the reorganization is published twice in mass media (once a month). The creditor of the legal entity, whose claim rights have been established before the publication of the first notice of the reorganization of the legal entity, has the right to (1) demand early payment of the corresponding obligation by the debtor in a judicial proceeding, or (2) at the impossibility of early payment, demand a termination of the obligation, and compensation for the related losses (Clause 2 of Article 60 of the CC of the RF).
3.9. Liquidation
The decision on liquidation is made by the general meeting of legal entity's participants, or the legal entity's other managing body which is authorized to do so, as per the charter. This body appoints a liquidation commission (or an individual liquidator), to establish the order and terms of liquidation. From the moment of the appointment of the liquidation commission, all powers of management of the liquidated legal entity are thereby transferred.
The liquidation commission publishes a message in mass media about the legal entity's liquidation, as well as about the procedure and term of the claims application made by its creditors.
In the event that the liquidated organization has insufficient property to satisfy all creditors' claims, the liquidating commission is obliged to appeal to the arbitration court with an application for bankruptcy. The Civil Code of the RF establishes the priority order for the satisfaction of creditors' claims in Article 64.
A legal entity which hasn't submitted documents on reporting, and has not carried out transactions on bank accounts within 12 months, is subject to liquidation (Article 64.2 of the CC of the RF).
3.10. State Registration of Reorganization and Liquidation
A legal entity is considered reorganized from the moment of the state registration of legal entities that have been created as a result of reorganization. At the reorganization of a legal entity, for matters of accession, the first entity is considered reorganized from the moment the record is entered into the USRLE, concerning the termination of the activities of the acceded legal entity (Clause 4 of Article 57 of the CC of the RF). The legal entity is considered liquidated from the moment the corresponding record is entered into the USRLE.
State registration procedures of reorganization and liquidation are established in the Federal Law on Registration. In general, they are similar to the registration procedure of the legal entity's establishment.
3.11. Managing Bodies; Responsibility of Authorized Officers; Branches and Representations
3.11.1. Managing Bodies of the Legal Entity
Legal entities of various organizational-legal forms have various managing bodies. As a rule, among the managing bodies of a legal entity, the following are included:
i) the highest collegial body (in corporate organizations, this is the general meeting of participants),
ii) the sole executive body,
iii) the executive board,
iv) a revision commission.
The instructions for the obligatory formation of bodies are contained not only in federal laws dedicated to separate
The FTS of Russia No. 46 of the city of Moscow is located at the address: 125373, Moscow, Walking Passage, household 3, building 2.
