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17 Feb 2012
Law / Legal help with ZUS for American please? [7]
Hello,
A few years back I began the process of registering a private company in Warsaw...there were something like 6 steps and I only made it half way through before giving up on the business idea. In my ignorance it seems since I started the process at all that the company is registered, I had thought since I didn't complete the steps it would just not be official. 3 years later my friends who's address it was registered at received a letter and a call from ZUS saying I owed them for the past 3 years.
I am in the USA now and they are trying to get advice locally how to handle it. It is in my eyes a communication/paperwork error and I am hoping when it is properly explained they will let it go. However knowing how things work with governments I am worried they won't and I cannot pay them tens of thousands of PLN.
Has anyone had any experience like this or know someone who could help and that wouldn't charge thousands more? I called a couple of firms and they said it would be several thousand for them to look into it and even then I may not be able to get the ZUS bill removed.
It's frustrating since I never "birthed" the company...it was stillborn. It never operated and I never made money from it. But I don't know how to prove that.
Thanks for any advice. I had hoped to return to Warsaw soon and am concerned this could cause me problems.
Hello,
A few years back I began the process of registering a private company in Warsaw...there were something like 6 steps and I only made it half way through before giving up on the business idea. In my ignorance it seems since I started the process at all that the company is registered, I had thought since I didn't complete the steps it would just not be official. 3 years later my friends who's address it was registered at received a letter and a call from ZUS saying I owed them for the past 3 years.
I am in the USA now and they are trying to get advice locally how to handle it. It is in my eyes a communication/paperwork error and I am hoping when it is properly explained they will let it go. However knowing how things work with governments I am worried they won't and I cannot pay them tens of thousands of PLN.
Has anyone had any experience like this or know someone who could help and that wouldn't charge thousands more? I called a couple of firms and they said it would be several thousand for them to look into it and even then I may not be able to get the ZUS bill removed.
It's frustrating since I never "birthed" the company...it was stillborn. It never operated and I never made money from it. But I don't know how to prove that.
Thanks for any advice. I had hoped to return to Warsaw soon and am concerned this could cause me problems.