Setting Up a Business in Hong Kong

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Hong Kong market — a low-tax, common-law jurisdiction that remains a genuine gateway for foreign companies doing business with mainland China, with its own currency, courts, and territorial tax system.
This guide covers legal structures (Private Company Limited by Shares, a single director sufficient), business taxation — a genuinely competitive two-tier territorial system (8.25%/16.5%) with no VAT and no capital gains tax — company formation, the cost of labor, and immigration routes for executives, investors, and entrepreneurs, including the General Employment Policy and the sponsor-free Top Talent Pass Scheme. Includes a dedicated chapter giving an honest account of Hong Kong’s history, its post-2020 political shift, and what has genuinely stayed the same — its common-law courts, independent monetary system, and Hong Kong dollar, linked to the US dollar under a peg whose long-term credibility remains tied to confidence in “one country, two systems.” An operational checklist and useful contacts round out the guide.
Available in English.