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Who is a beneficial owner?
Since 1 September 2018 all legal persons registered in Estonia are obliged to retain and publish data on the beneficial owners of the legal entity. This is based on chapter 9 of the Estonian Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Prevention Act.
Pursuant to the Act, a legal person is required to retain and gather relevant, accurate and up-to-date data on its beneficial owners, including information on their right of ownership or other manners of exercising control.
Estonian e-Residency in a nutshell
E-Residency is a secure digital identity provided by the Estonian government to a person who is not an Estonian citizen and has no residence in Estonia. This is the first such project in the world, which gives access to a country and its services online.
Your Estonian digital identity comes in the physical form of a smart card with a chip that you get after your identity and compliance have been confirmed by Estonian government agencies doing background checks of applicants.
We have written this article to have everything you need to know about e-residency in a two-minute read.
Register a company online in five minutes
Unicount enables Estonian e-residents to establish a company in the EU from anywhere in the world without travelling. Follow the instructions in this article to register a company in Estonia online in five minutes or less.
If you are not yet an Estonian e-resident, learn how to become one so you can register your company online via the Unicount web app. The app can be used to register a sole owner (private person) and sole director companies in Estonia.
