Types of Legal Entities

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all types of legal entities divided into commercial and non-profit organizations.

Commercial organizations put the main purpose of profit as a result of work.Non-profit organizations do not pursue purposes of profit or distribute profits among the participants.Concept and types of legal persons is determined by their goals.

commercial organizations under the Civil Code of the Russian Federation can only be created in the specified their organizational forms.These forms are business entities;state and municipal unitary enterprises;production cooperatives.

Classification and types of legal entities there next.

Business partnerships distinguish full and limited and additional liability companies or limited.

general partnership is characterized by the fact that participants have the right to engage in business on behalf of the organization responsible for the obligations guaranteed their property (including private).

limited partnership may have two kinds of members: general partners and limited partners (depositors) who do not participate in the activities of the company and bear the risk of losses only to the extent of their contributions to the partnership.

joint-stock company is characterized by dividing the capital stock.The risk of losses shareholders are within the value of their shares.Types of legal entities of joint stock companies are open and closed.

Subsidiaries and affiliates are not liable for the debts of the main organizations.

Limited Liability Company established by one or more persons, the authorized capital is divided into shares.Responsibility for the company's activities, participants are only assets invested in the company.

Company with additional (subsidiary) liability is characterized by the fact that its members are responsible for the affairs of the society of his property in a multiple amount of their deposits.

production cooperative - association of citizens on the basis of membership for the joint economic activity, which is based on personal involvement and mutual association property contributions.Profits tend to be allocated in accordance with the personal labor contribution.

State and municipal unitary enterprises have rights of ownership of the property assigned to them.The actual owner of the property is state or municipality.They convey the property to the enterprise or to the right hozvedeniya or operational management.

profit organizations have the right to be created in the forms provided by the Code, poppy and others that the law provides.Types of legal persons in this group include the funds;religious and public associations;consumer cooperatives;institutions;United legal entities (associations and unions), one of them consisting of commercial companies, but not putting the target profit.Types of legal persons in this group are characterized by such features.

Consumer cooperative includes consumer, garden, housing, cottages, condominiums apartments after privatization (condominiums) and others. They are voluntary associations to meet the needs of the material needs of its members.To this end, the participants combined contributions (shares).

Public organizations and religious associations created to meet the spiritual needs.They are based on common interests.

funds began to take shape in Russia recently.They may be established by citizens and legal entities for different purposes: charitable, cultural, social, educational, and others. (Children's Fund, the World).The property fund is formed by the founders.

institutions - such organizations, which are the owners to carry out administrative and socio-cultural functions of a non-profit orientation.Funded by the owner.