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No. Nothing is charged until you confirm on the payment screen, where you review the full invoice one more time. The one-time $4,039 covers two mandatory items: Company Incorporation & Registration at $2,885, and Client Take-on (KYC & Due Diligence) at $1,154. Prices are set in euros and shown converted to USD. Any annual or monthly services you selected sit outside that one-time total and bill on their own cadence.

It is the KYC and due-diligence work that has to happen before anything can be filed, and at $1,154 (EUR 1,000) it is a real share of the price, so we show it openly instead of folding it into a vague formation charge. It pays for collecting and verifying a passport copy and proof of address for every UBO holding more than 25% of the parent and for every director of the Norwegian entity, checking the corporate documents, and coordinating with local authorities. Norway requires notarized, wet-ink originals, so this is manual document review rather than a checkbox. It is charged once at onboarding and never again.

We open your file and send you the document checklist, then run the KYC and due diligence the take-on fee covers. Once the notarized originals reach us, we file your AS with the Norwegian Business Register (the Brønnøysund Register Centre) and complete your corporate income tax registration. The registrar controls when your organization number is issued, so we push the file through and tell you where it stands at each step.

A passport copy and proof of address for every UBO who controls more than 25% of the parent and for every director of the Norwegian entity, a group structure chart where one applies, and certified copies of the parent company's Certificate of Registration, Memorandum, and Articles of Association. Norwegian rules require notarized, wet-ink originals, so these travel by courier as physical documents, not as emailed scans. Book the notary early. It is the step that most often holds up a Norway filing.

About 1 to 2 months for the incorporation itself, measured from when your documents are in hand. That excludes the time you spend collecting and notarizing the KYC and corporate paperwork, which is often the longer stretch because the originals have to be couriered. The Norwegian Business Register sets the pace on the filing, so we will not promise you a date, only that nothing waits on our side.

Yes. Government and legal registration fees sit inside the $2,885 incorporation line item, along with the filing at the Norwegian Business Register and your corporate income tax registration. No separate registry invoice arrives later. Notarizing your own documents where your owners and directors are located is arranged by you and is not part of this price.

Your company must be registered at a physical Norwegian address where official mail can reach it. If you do not have one, Commenda's registered address service is required to proceed, at $2,308/year (EUR 2,000), including mail handling for up to 20 letters a year. Norwegian company law generally requires the general manager and at least half of the board to be resident in the EEA, so if nobody on your team qualifies, Commenda appoints a professional local director at $4,039/year (EUR 3,500), including 5 hours of ad hoc work annually. Neither is included in the one-time formation price. Both are annual services billed separately.

No, and we would rather say so before you pay. In Norway you open the bank account yourself once the company exists, and Commenda's formation scope concludes when the entity is formed. Norwegian banks are hard to satisfy without a meaningful local presence, so plan for that step to take real effort. The sequence still matters: the AS has to be registered before any bank will open an account for it.

The one-time price covers exactly two things: Company Incorporation & Registration at $2,885, which includes government and legal registration fees, the Business Register filing, and corporate income tax registration, plus Client Take-on (KYC & Due Diligence) at $1,154. Everything else is a separate paid service: registered address $2,308/year, local director $4,039/year, monthly bookkeeping and bank reconciliation at $462 for 1 to 40 transactions, $750 for 41 to 120 or $1,039 for 121 to 200 (above 200 we quote on your volume), annual report and corporate income tax declaration at $1,731/year without an auditor or $2,596/year with one, Norwegian VAT registration $462 one-time plus $346/month for ongoing VAT filings, and EORI registration $231 one-time if you move physical goods across borders. An EU One Stop Shop registration does not cover Norway, so selling here means a Norwegian VAT registration of its own. Also outside the price: opening the bank account, the statutory audit itself where one is required (the auditor quotes that), any share capital you fund into the company, and tax advice in your home country.

Because the obligations attach to the company, not to its revenue. A Norwegian company with little or no activity still keeps orderly accounts and still files an annual report and a corporate income tax declaration every year, and it still needs a registered address and EEA-resident management in place. Penalties vary and can be significant, and prolonged non-compliance puts the company's standing at risk. A dormant entity should not quietly fall out of compliance.

Yes. Bookkeeping, the annual report and tax declaration, VAT registration, and EORI registration can all be added after formation, and each starts billing on its own cadence when it starts. Bookkeeping moves between transaction bands as your volume changes, and above 200 transactions a month we quote on your actual volume. VAT registration is only possible once the entity is established, so adding it after registration is the normal path.

Your entity gets a compliance calendar listing every Norwegian obligation it owes, the annual report, the corporate income tax declaration, and any VAT filings, with status tracking so you can see what is upcoming, done, or overdue. Reminders go out ahead of each due date instead of leaving you to check the platform. We file what is in your plan and keep the confirmations in your document vault. Add entities in other countries and they sit on the same dashboard, so a multi-country group stays on one source of truth.