Every legal form in Taiwan, each with its abbreviation, the kind of entity it is, liability and typical use where they are well established, and the values the Prometiam company object returns.
This guide lists the 5 legal forms the Prometiam dictionary knows for Taiwan: what each is called, how it is abbreviated, what kind of entity it is and how it appears in the company object. Use it to read the legal_form of a company registered in Taiwan, or to decode a form you meet in a contract or on an invoice. It is a general reference, not legal advice.
Coverage and limits for Taiwan: company records only (no officers or responsible person, no registry-compliance signal, no insolvency notices); limited companies, companies limited by shares, unlimited companies, limited partnership companies and Taiwan branches of foreign companies only, sole proprietorships, partnerships, domestic branches, cooperatives, associations and representative offices are never served; names and addresses are in Chinese; dissolution, reorganisation, receivership and bankruptcy show in the company status. Contains data from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Department of Commerce (GCIS open data platform) and the Ministry of Finance, Fiscal Information Agency (business tax registration data), Republic of China (Taiwan), released under the Open Government Data License v1.0 (https://data.gov.tw/license). Adapted by Prometiam, not a certified register extract.
| Form | Abbreviation | Kind | What to know |
|---|---|---|---|
| Limited company | Co., Ltd. | Private limited company | A limited company (有限公司). |
| Company limited by shares | Co., Ltd. | Public limited company (joint-stock company) | A company limited by shares (股份有限公司). |
| Unlimited company | - | General partnership | An unlimited company (無限公司). |
| Branch of a foreign company in Taiwan | - | Branch of a foreign company | A Taiwan branch of a foreign company (外國公司在台之分公司). Domestic branches are never served. |
Every company object carries four legal-form fields: legal_form (the standard abbreviation, null when the form is not mapped), legal_form_family (the cross-country family, so a private limited company compares across countries), local_legal_form (the register’s own value or code as stored) and local_legal_form_name (the register’s name for it, where it publishes one). Each form below shows the values the API returns for it.
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer rk_live_..." \ "https://api.prometiam.com/functions/v1/risk-api/companies/search?country=TW&name=<company name>" # each result carries, for example: # "legal_form": "Co., Ltd." # "legal_form_family": "private_limited_company"
Private limited company: a company with its own legal personality whose owners are, as a rule, not personally liable for its debts and whose shares are not offered to the public.
A limited company (有限公司).
Co., Ltd.legal_form Co., Ltd., legal_form_family private_limited_company, local_legal_form 有限公司Public limited company (joint-stock company): a company with its own legal personality and share capital whose owners are, as a rule, not personally liable; the family of forms that can usually raise money from the public.
A company limited by shares (股份有限公司).
Co., Ltd.legal_form Co., Ltd., legal_form_family public_limited_company, local_legal_form 股份有限公司General partnership: the owners run the business together and, as a rule, answer personally for its debts.
An unlimited company (無限公司).
legal_form Unlimited company, legal_form_family general_partnership, local_legal_form 無限公司Limited partnership: at least one partner answers without limit for the debts, the others only up to what they contributed.
legal_form Limited partnership company, legal_form_family limited_partnership, local_legal_form 兩合公司Branch of a foreign company: an establishment or registration of a company incorporated abroad.
A Taiwan branch of a foreign company (外國公司在台之分公司). Domestic branches are never served.
legal_form Branch of a foreign company in Taiwan, legal_form_family branch_of_foreign_company, local_legal_form 外國公司在台之分公司See the Taiwan company data API guide for the register behind these records and the free UBN lookup to try an identifier. For the register states that go with these forms, read company status in Taiwan. All countries: company legal forms.
Search by name or identifier and read legal_form, legal_form_family and local_legal_form on every result, or filter a bulk list by family.
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