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Starting from September 2025, Grant Thornton Baltic offers both existing and new clients a comprehensive debt collection service. Our goal is to make debt recovery clear, efficient, and results-oriented.

Many foreign nationals doing business in Estonia recently received an unpleasant surprise: they are unable to submit their annual report for their company to the Business Register, since they failed to renew their digital ID by the deadline. Meanwhile, the Estonian Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) has imposed additional conditions on applying for a new digital ID.

On 1 February 2023, the new Commercial Register Act entered into force, ushering in significant changes to the Commercial Code and other laws regulating the activities of corporate entities. Among other things, the changes also concern the net asset requirement, related to one of the major changes – the removal of the requirement of minimum share capital for private limited companies.

Most annual reports have by now been submitted and the Commercial Register is now checking whether companies’ equity meets the minimum net assets requirement arising from legislation. What does this mean for companies?

Employers have to deal with three important aspects that lead to an employment relationship between employer and employee: job interview, pre-contractual negotiations and background checks (the last of these, of course, with employee consent).