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Do I need a business license to open a snack bar?

Yes, you need a business license to do business.

Business license is the certificate that our business operators must apply for. Those who engage in illegal business without a business license have been investigated and punished by the industrial and commercial departments, but they will be fined. If they evade taxes, they will be punished by the tax authorities.

Business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in certain production and business activities. Its format shall be uniformly stipulated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

Business license opening process:

1. When going to the industrial and commercial department where the new address is located, you need to bring the same information as that provided by the new enterprise. You can get the Notice of Enterprise Registration File Transfer and the Notice of Relocation and Change Registration with complete information.

2. Hold the Notification Letter of Enterprise Registration File Transfer (the information is mailed by the industrial and commercial departments of the two places) to the original industrial and commercial registration department to go through the formalities of industrial and commercial data transfer, and the industrial and commercial department of the old address will issue the Notice of Approval for Enterprises to Move Out after accepting the Notification Letter of Enterprise Registration File Transfer.

3. After going through the formalities, the industrial and commercial department waiting for the new address calls the enterprise after receiving the industrial and commercial information of the enterprise, and goes to the new industrial and commercial department to handle the specific address change (fill in a change registration form and power of attorney) with the Notice of Relocation and Change Registration to the permit window seven days after completing the formalities.

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Necessity of business license:

1. The business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in certain production and business activities. Without a business license, industrial and commercial enterprises or individual operators are not allowed to start business, nor are they allowed to carve official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks or advertise, and banks are not allowed to open accounts.

2. Units and individuals without business licenses shall not operate.

If you want to do business, it is unlicensed. According to Article 14 of the Measures for Investigating and Banning Unlicensed Business Operation, the administrative department for industry and commerce shall ban it according to law and confiscate the illegal income; Those who violate the criminal law shall be investigated for criminal responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the criminal law on the crime of illegal business operation, the crime of major accidents, the crime of major labor safety accidents, the crime of causing accidents with dangerous goods or other crimes;

If it is not serious enough for criminal punishment, it shall be fined not more than 20,000 yuan; If the scale of unlicensed operation is large and the social harm is serious, a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan but not more than 200,000 yuan shall be imposed; Unlicensed business practices are harmful to human health, have major security risks, threaten public safety and destroy environmental resources. Confiscate tools, equipment, raw materials, products (commodities) and other property specially used for unlicensed operation, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan but not more than 500,000 yuan.

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