An employer in Hong Kong must enrol every employee aged 18 to 64 in a Mandatory Provident Fund scheme within the first 60 days of employment and remit monthly mandatory contributions of 5 per cent of relevant income from its own funds, plus 5 per cent deducted from the employee. The duty covers full-time and part-time employees alike. The regulator is the Mandatory Provident Fund Schemes Authority (MPFA).

Most entrepreneurs thinking about "two jurisdictions" imagine two offshore entities for tax reduction. The Hong Kong + UAE dual structure operates on a fundamentally different logic. These are two complementary jurisdictions with different geographic reach, different legal systems, and different banking ecosystems — which together deliver more than either achieves alone.

Hong Kong is preparing four new licensing regimes for virtual asset service providers — dealers, custodians, advisers, and asset managers — supplementing the already-established regime for trading platforms (VATP), through amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615).

A Hong Kong stablecoin issuer licence is required of any person who, in the course of business, issues a specified stablecoin in Hong Kong, or issues outside Hong Kong a stablecoin referenced wholly or partly to the Hong Kong dollar. Licensing is administered by the Monetary Authority (HKMA). The regime has been in force since 1 August 2025.

A Hong Kong company carries two parallel, procedurally unconnected annual obligations: filing an Annual Return (Form NAR1) with the Companies Registry, and filing a Profits Tax Return (Form BIR51) with attached audited financial statements with the Inland Revenue Department (IRD).

Company re-domiciliation to Hong Kong is the statutory process by which a non-Hong Kong incorporated company transfers its place of incorporation to Hong Kong while retaining the same legal identity, corporate history, assets, contracts, banking relationships and liabilities. No new entity is created and no winding-up or court scheme is required: the company continues as the same body corporate, now governed by Hong Kong law.