Common questions about registered offices and business addresses

A business address is where your business post goes. A registered office is the address entered officially: in your trade registration and, for a GmbH, in the company register. A registered office carries higher expectations of reachability, which is why it costs more.

In principle yes, provided the address can receive service of process and you are genuinely reachable there. A plain post box is not enough. How strictly the authority reads this in a given case is worth clarifying with your tax adviser first.

A GmbH usually needs a registered seat, which is the Firmensitz package: €99 a month excl. VAT, €82.50 paid yearly. As a sole proprietor you often need only a postal address, which is the business address at €59 a month excl. VAT, €49 paid yearly. Your tax adviser clarifies what applies in your case.

An address where official and court post can be delivered and actually accepted. What counts is not the nameplate on the door but that the post arrives and someone takes it in. A post box does not meet that. In Altach it is a building with a reception: your post is taken in by people, and you either collect it or we scan it. How strictly the relevant authority reads that in your case is best clarified in advance with your tax adviser.

There is a distinction between a bare letterbox and a serviced address with real mail handling, and the publicly available sources on it do not agree. What gets viewed critically is the letterbox with nobody behind it. Altach is the other end of that: a building with a reception, a waiting area and tenants who genuinely work there. Where the authority draws the line in your particular case is something your tax adviser or notary can tell you more reliably than we can.

No. A letterbox company has nothing but a letterbox. Here there is a building in Altach, with a reception, a waiting area and tenants who genuinely work there. Post is taken in and passed on by people.

You rent a business address where your post arrives, without needing a workplace there. Here we take in the post in Altach and scan it, and you receive it by email. If you prefer, you collect it in person. The contract can be cancelled monthly.

Renting a business address is not prohibited in Austria and is common. What it legally suffices for, such as the legal notice on a website or a trade registration, depends on your trade and on the authority. Clarify that beforehand with your tax adviser or the WKO founder service.

The address where post for your company arrives and is accepted by someone. The delivery address in Altach costs €59 a month excl. VAT, or €49 a month excl. VAT paid yearly. Heinzle Immobilien GmbH takes in the post, scans it and sends it by email. Cancel monthly.

For business post, invoices and your legal notice yes, many businesses use a separate address for that. Authorities and registrations may have their own rules. Check your case beforehand with your tax adviser or the WKO founder service.

With a PO box you collect the letters yourself at the post office, and the address is a box number. The business address in Altach is a street address: We take in the post and you get an email scan. It costs €59 a month excl. VAT, €49 paid yearly.

Usually not. The legal notice of a business website states a geographic address, meaning street and house number, and a PO box is not one. Whether a business address is enough in your case depends on where you actually work. If in doubt, ask the WKO or your tax adviser.

Usually in three steps: you rent the address and receive written confirmation that you may use the location. With that you register the trade at the district authority or online via the business service portal. Then you enter the same address everywhere the authority needs to be able to reach you. Which documents are required varies by trade and by authority. The WKO's free founder advice will confirm it beforehand.

For trade registration you need a location where the authority can reach you. That may be your home address, but it does not have to be. Many founders would rather not have their private address in the public trade register and rent a business address instead.

What is entered is a specific address at which the company can be reached, not merely a municipality, and not a post box. Service of documents must arrive there and be accepted. Notaries and the register therefore usually ask for the owner's written consent that the company may have its seat at that address. We issue that declaration for Altach. Whether anything further is needed in your case is a question for your notary or tax adviser.

No. A GmbH needs a registered seat, not its own office space. Plenty of small companies work remotely and use a rented registered-office address. What matters is that someone is genuinely reachable at that seat.

Usually yes: the seat is the address at which your company can be reached, not necessarily an office where you work. What matters is that post reliably arrives there and is accepted. In Altach that is a building with a reception. The registered office costs €99 a month excl. VAT, €82.50 paid yearly. Your tax adviser confirms whether that is enough in your case.

Yes, you can rent the address wherever you live, including from Switzerland or Liechtenstein. The registered office in Altach costs €99 a month excl. VAT, €82.50 paid yearly. Booking is online and you upload your ID documents afterwards. What the address means for you in tax and law, clarify beforehand with your tax adviser.

Usually not. Tax residence depends on the actual circumstances, such as where management actually works, not on a rented address alone. This is a general statement and not tax advice. Check your case with your tax adviser in your country of residence and in Austria.

The WKO founder service advises free of charge. Basic information on trade registration is on oesterreich.gv.at and in the Unternehmensserviceportal. For your individual case your tax adviser is the right contact.

It depends on what is included. By published prices, a business address in Austria usually costs €45 to €160 a month excl. VAT, often plus a setup fee or deposit. A post office PO box is cheaper but not a street address. In Altach the business address is €59 a month excl. VAT, cancellable monthly with no minimum term, and if you rent a room here it is included anyway.

By published prices, about €59 to €140 a month excl. VAT for an address that may be entered in the company register, more with a phone service. Ask beforehand whether the provider explicitly allows its use as a seat. In Altach the business address is €59 and the registered office €99 a month, both excl. VAT and cancellable monthly.

Usually within a few working days. After your enquiry we briefly clarify what you actually need, then you get the confirmation you can present for registration.

We take in your post and scan it within 2 working days. You get a scan by email, or you collect it in person. The address is meant for business post in the ordinary sense, not for mail-order volumes.

The Service Act (Zustellgesetz) looks to the delivery point, such as a home, place of business, law office or business premises (§ 4 Zustellgesetz). Whether a business address counts as a delivery point in your case is decided, in a dispute, by the authority or the court. Clarify that beforehand with your tax adviser.

We take in the post in Altach, scan it and send it by email, which is included in the price. We forward up to 5 original letters a month.

The legal notice must state the geographic address at which you are established (§ 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz). Whether a business address alone is enough depends on where you actually carry on your activity. If in doubt, ask the WKO or your tax adviser.

An invoice must show the name and address of the supplier (§ 11 Umsatzsteuergesetz). Which address you may use for that is best discussed beforehand with your tax adviser.

You can rent the address in Altach wherever you work. Altach is about 12 km from Dornbirn and your post arrives as an email scan. Which location you may state for trade registration depends on your case. Clarify that beforehand with the WKO founder service or your tax adviser.

Yes, Altach is in the Feldkirch district. For a trade located in Altach the Bezirkshauptmannschaft Feldkirch is therefore usually responsible. The distance from Feldkirch to Altach is about 16 km. In an individual case the district authority or the WKO founder service will confirm who is responsible.

No. We scan your post and email it, which is included in the price. You only travel if you want to collect an original: Altach is about 23 km from Bregenz, about 27 minutes by train. We also forward up to 5 original letters a month.

Parking, the business address, use of the reception with its waiting area, the kitchen and the WC, and the cleaning of the shared areas. All prices are net of VAT.

The contract terms are flexible and discussed personally. Call us and we will explain what works best for you.

Rooms marked as available are ready immediately. Get in touch or give us a call, it can usually be arranged quickly.

Yes, always. We show it to you personally. Just call or send an enquiry to arrange a time.

Yes. You have access to the building around the clock, including evenings, weekends and public holidays, with your own key, no booking and no fixed office hours.

No, the rooms are unfurnished so you can set them up your own way. The furnished pictures on the website are visualisations and labelled as such.

No, the desk is let monthly. For €150 a month it is reliably yours. You do not clear it every evening, and you find it in the morning as you left it. Kitchen, reception and parking are included, with access around the clock.

The practice room in Altach is let monthly, not by the hour. For €280 a month the room is reliably yours, with reception and waiting area in the building, usually a better deal for a growing practice than hourly rates.