Legal form

The legal form a business takes — ТОВ, ФОП, ПрАТ, АТ and others.

The legal form decides who is liable for a company's obligations, what it has to file, and what the register publishes about it. In Ukraine the most common is the limited liability company (товариство з обмеженою відповідальністю, ТОВ), where the owners' liability is limited to what they put in.

The forms the register records, most common first: ТОВ — товариство з обмеженою відповідальністю, limited liability company. The most common form.; ФОП — фізична особа-підприємець, sole trader. A natural person, not a company. Registered in the same register and identified by a personal tax number rather than a ЄДРПОУ code.; ПрАТ — приватне акціонерне товариство, private joint-stock company; АТ — акціонерне товариство, joint-stock company; ТДВ — товариство з додатковою відповідальністю, additional liability company; ДП — державне підприємство, state enterprise; КП — комунальне підприємство, municipal enterprise; ПП — приватне підприємство, private enterprise.

Where this figure comes from

Read from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs and Civic Formations.

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