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Hungary Business Residence
The EU's cheapest founder door: a Hungarian Kft with ~€7,700 capital and real operations buys residency in the Union's 9% corporate-tax jurisdiction.
Why it works
6 things the founder route buys
9% corporate tax
The EU's lowest headline rate — the reason the structure pays for itself.
A real EU company
Invoice, hire and bank across the Union from Budapest.
90/180 across the Area as a resident.
Family joins
Spouse and children via family reunification once you're established.
15% flat personal
If you take Hungarian tax residence, the personal rate stays gentle.
Golden Visa adjacency
Capital arriving later upgrades the same life into the 10-year card.
Who joins
Hungary Business Residence: one application, the whole family
Founder
- Kft incorporated, HUF 3M (~€7,700) capital
- A real business plan the officer believes
- Clean record, insurance, address
- Family reunification after establishment
- Via reunification
- Revenue, contracts or employees by renewal time
The requirements
How the Hungary Business Residence is structured
Own Hungarian Kft + residence permit
Incorporation in days, then the residence permit on the strength of the business plan. Renewals test substance: activity, tax filings, and ideally revenue or staff. We build plans officers approve — and businesses that survive them.
Procedure
Four steps to your Hungary Business Residence card
Confidential screening against the databases the authorities use — refusal causes caught before anything is signed or paid.
Checklist, translations, apostilles — and the qualifying basis (income, company or asset) papered to the officer's standard.
Submitted through the official channel, biometrics scheduled; we track the file weekly and answer requisitions same-day.
Approval, cards for the whole family, and a renewal calendar we run so the status never lapses.
The honest map
What the Hungary Business Residence brochures skip
- Paper companies die at renewal — substance is the whole game
- Processing runs 6+ months; plan the runway
- This is an operator's route: expect bookkeeping, filings and a real bank account
- Total entry under €10k — nothing in the EU competes
- 9% corporate + 15% personal is the Union's friendliest stack
- Graduates naturally into the Golden Visa or PR as the business grows
FAQ
The questions that decide Hungary Business Residence files
What business qualifies? +
Almost anything real — consulting, trade, tech. The officer funds plausibility, not glamour.
Family from day one? +
Shortly after — reunification follows your established status.
The taxes? +
9% corporate; 15% flat personal if tax-resident; dividends efficient. The stack is the product.
Substance at renewal? +
Filings, activity, ideally revenue or a hire. We keep the file renewal-proof from month one.
The founder's Budapest play
The Kft buys residency and a 9% base; a Caribbean passport buys the mobility Hungary can't. Founders run both. Compare the passports →
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Free preliminary Due Diligence, the document checklist, and your exact all-in number — before any engagement fee exists. Reply within one business day.