This profile assumes the smallest company shape: a micro business (fewer than 10 staff, up to €2 million turnover) with nobody on payroll, so duties tied to employing staff are left out. It still covers the recurring basics almost every company has - VAT and other tax returns, the annual financial report - plus EU-wide rules such as the AI Act or the Cyber Resilience Act that apply no matter how small you are. Hire your first employee, or grow past micro size, and a different profile will fit better.
This page assumes a specific starting profile: micro company with no employees, in Estonia. It's a starting point, not tailored advice - your actual obligations depend on your exact sector, turnover and how you operate.
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Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →Manufacturers of products with digital elements (hardware and software, including SaaS-connected devices and standalone apps) must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents through ENISA's single reporting platform: early warning within 24 hours, full notification within 72 hours, final report within 14 days (vulnerabilities) or one month (incidents). It applies to products already on the market.
Details →A self-employed person (FIE, sole proprietor) registered in the Estonian commercial register must pay quarterly social tax advance payments on their business income, reconciled against actual income in the annual tax return.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →VAT-registered businesses that make intra-Community supplies of goods, or supply certain B2B services to VAT payers in other EU member states, must file a recapitulative statement (Vorm VD) listing those transactions and counterparties by VAT number.
Details →Directive (EU) 2024/825 amends EU consumer-protection law (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and the Consumer Rights Directive) to ban generic environmental claims not backed by recognised excellent environmental performance (e.g. 'climate neutral', 'eco-friendly', 'green' used without substantiation), bans claims based purely on carbon-offsetting, and requires sustainability labels to come from a certification scheme or a public authority rather than being self-created. It also bans planned-obsolescence practices and requires clearer product durability/reparability information.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Businesses registered for the EU VAT One Stop Shop (Union scheme, used for cross-border B2C sales of goods and digital/other services to consumers in other EU member states above the €10,000 combined threshold) must submit their OSS VAT return via EMTA electronically by the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, and pay any VAT due by the same date. The deadline is fixed and is not shifted when it falls on a weekend or public holiday.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Generative AI systems that were already on the market before 2 August 2026 get until 2 December 2026 to implement machine-readable marking and detection of AI-generated output. From the same date AI systems built to generate non-consensual intimate or sexual imagery are prohibited outright.
Details →Directive (EU) 2024/2853 must be transposed by 9 December 2026 and applies to products placed on the market after that date. Software (including SaaS and AI), digital manufacturing files and related services count as products; missing security updates can make a product defective. Courts can order disclosure of evidence and presume defectiveness in complex cases. Free open-source software outside commercial activity is excluded.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →A self-employed person (FIE, sole proprietor) registered in the Estonian commercial register must pay quarterly social tax advance payments on their business income, reconciled against actual income in the annual tax return.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Each EU country must provide at least one certified EU Digital Identity Wallet so citizens and businesses can identify themselves, sign documents with qualified e-signatures and share verified attributes (company registration, licences) across the EU. Public administrations must accept it for online services.
Details →The Ministry of Finance is drafting a VAT Act amendment that would make structured e-invoices mandatory for domestic B2B transactions between VAT-registered businesses and require all invoices (not just those above €1,000) to be declared in the VAT return annex, aimed at closing an estimated multi-million-euro VAT collection gap.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →From this date cloud and data-processing providers may no longer charge customers for switching to another provider or for exporting their data (egress). Contracts must already allow termination and migration within 30 days, and providers must offer export in machine-readable formats.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 applies to all machinery placed on the EU market from 20 January 2027 with no transition. It adds requirements for software safety, protection against malicious tampering, self-evolving (AI) behaviour, digital instructions, and mandatory third-party assessment for certain high-risk machinery categories.
Details →Businesses registered for the EU VAT One Stop Shop (Union scheme, used for cross-border B2C sales of goods and digital/other services to consumers in other EU member states above the €10,000 combined threshold) must submit their OSS VAT return via EMTA electronically by the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, and pay any VAT due by the same date. The deadline is fixed and is not shifted when it falls on a weekend or public holiday.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →Under Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 every EV battery, light means of transport battery (e-bikes, scooters) and industrial battery over 2 kWh placed on the market must carry a QR code linking to a digital battery passport with data on chemistry, carbon footprint, recycled content, performance and durability.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →A self-employed person (FIE, sole proprietor) registered in the Estonian commercial register must pay quarterly social tax advance payments on their business income, reconciled against actual income in the annual tax return.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Companies that place packaged goods on the Estonian market (including through import) must report annual packaging and packaging-waste data to the national packaging register by 31 March each year, either directly or through a recognised producer-responsibility organisation. Companies placing under 20 tonnes of packaging a year are exempt from the data-audit requirement, but not from reporting itself.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Businesses registered for the EU VAT One Stop Shop (Union scheme, used for cross-border B2C sales of goods and digital/other services to consumers in other EU member states above the €10,000 combined threshold) must submit their OSS VAT return via EMTA electronically by the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, and pay any VAT due by the same date. The deadline is fixed and is not shifted when it falls on a weekend or public holiday.
Details →A self-employed person (FIE) must file an annual income tax return (Vorm E) declaring business income and expenses for the previous calendar year, separate from the standard personal income tax return.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →A self-employed person (FIE, sole proprietor) registered in the Estonian commercial register must pay quarterly social tax advance payments on their business income, reconciled against actual income in the annual tax return.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Every company registered in Estonia must prepare, have shareholders/members approve, and electronically file its annual report with the Business Register within 6 months of financial year end. Filing is done via the e-Business Register (e-äriregister, run by RIK). For calendar-year filers that means 30 June.
Details →Estonian companies must keep their beneficial owner (ultimate beneficial owner, UBO) data in the e-Business Register accurate and confirm/update it, in practice done alongside each annual report submission.
Details →Micro and small companies dealing in the EUDR commodities (cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, wood and derived products) get six extra months. Small downstream traders mainly need to collect and pass on upstream due diligence reference numbers; small primary producers in low-risk countries file a simplified declaration.
Details →Payment providers in EU countries outside the euro area must offer euro instant transfers and the free name/IBAN check (Verification of Payee) from July 2027, completing the roll-out across the EU.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
Details →Businesses registered for the EU VAT One Stop Shop (Union scheme, used for cross-border B2C sales of goods and digital/other services to consumers in other EU member states above the €10,000 combined threshold) must submit their OSS VAT return via EMTA electronically by the last day of the month following each calendar quarter, and pay any VAT due by the same date. The deadline is fixed and is not shifted when it falls on a weekend or public holiday.
Details →General-purpose AI models that were already on the market before 2 August 2025 were given two years to catch up. From this date they must meet the same documentation, copyright and training-data-summary duties as new models.
Details →Because Estonia taxes company profit only on distribution rather than annually, a resident company that pays out dividends or other profit distributions must declare and pay income tax (currently 22/78 of the net distribution) via TSD Annex 7 together with form INF 1 (recipients of dividends and equity payments) by the 10th day of the month following the month of payment.
Details →VAT-registered businesses in Estonia must submit their VAT return (form KMD, with the KMD INF annex where applicable) to the Tax and Customs Board (EMTA) and pay any VAT due by the 20th day of the month following the taxable period, which is one calendar month. Registration as a VAT payer is mandatory once taxable turnover with a place of supply in Estonia exceeds €40,000 since the start of the calendar year.
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