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You can easily set up a UK company online, but you won't be able to get a UK bank account. However I was able to get my local bank to open an account for us wh
by mariusandra 12y ago
You can easily set up a UK company online, but you won't be able to get a UK bank account.
However I was able to get my local bank to open an account for us when I presented stamped legal documents sent from the UK.
- alansparrow 12y agoThank you, this will be helpful.
- danieltillett 12y agoCould you provide more details on what was involved? Was your local bank a branch of a UK bank? Are you located within the EU? What legal documents did you need stamped? Who were they stamped by and how much did it cost?
- mariusandra 12y agoI opened an account with www.lhv.ee - a bank in Estonia (EU), which is my home country. We started a company, then ordered the incorporation documents, and then had them sent back to be apostilled. Then we forwarded them to the bank. I had also been in the bank office before to sign some paperwork and see what was possible. Starting a company was 200£. Apostilling the document was 30£. The cost of opening the bank account was 500€. Add some postage fees. Starting the company: http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/page1512en.html?namesearch=no http://www.companiesmadesimple.com/page1512en.html?namesearc... Getting the certificate of incorporation from them mailed. Apostilling documents: https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised https://www.gov.uk/get-document-legalised Bank we used: https://www.lhv.ee/ https://www.lhv.ee/
- danieltillett 12y agoThanks for all this. I suspect it is impossible to do outside of the eu.
- abhimir 12y agoWould you mind sharing which bank?
- mariusandra 12y agohttps://www.lhv.ee/ https://www.lhv.ee/