🗓️ After incorporation

Your Bulgarian Company Operating Calendar

A Bulgarian company does not stop at registration. Answer a few practical questions and see which recurring workstreams may apply to your company, what usually happens when, and who normally owns each step.

This is an orientation tool, not a personalised accounting or tax assessment. Where a rule depends on your transactions or status, the result tells you what needs professional clarification instead of guessing.

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How to read this calendar

This tool identifies workstreams that commonly apply based on your answers. It does not decide your tax or legal position. Dates marked Verified were checked against the cited authority for the stated period. Items marked Needs clarification should be confirmed with the responsible accountant, authority or specialist before you act.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-11 · Statutory dates are not rolled forward automatically — they are re-verified every year.

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What best describes your Bulgarian company?

What happens after a Bulgarian company is registered?

Registration is the beginning of the operating cycle, not the first invoice. The company needs an accounting process, and depending on its transactions it may also have VAT, payroll, statistical and annual reporting workstreams. Which tasks actually apply depends on the company's activity and status.

Right now

Based on your answers, these are your immediate priorities.

Set up accounting
Clarify your company's status
Have an inactive company reviewed
Handover to the new accounting provider
Request an urgent review
Clarify VAT status

Every month / recurring

Tasks that repeat for as long as the company is active.

Send accounting records
VAT reporting
Check whether VIES reporting applies
Review cross-border purchasing
Payroll
Review e-commerce / payment-platform activity

Once per year

Annual reporting and filing workstreams.

Publish annual financial statements
First annual reporting cycle still ahead
Clarify your financial-year status
Annual statistical reporting

When something changes

Operational prompts, not legal advice — the points where your calendar should be re-checked.

Before your first payroll
You hire somebody
You become VAT registered
You begin selling across borders
Document volume increases materially
You change accountant
The company stops trading

Related guides

Further reading on running a Bulgarian company:

What we can confirm

Limited companies must keep ongoing accounts and file their annual financial statements with the Commercial Register.
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For the intra-EU supplies it covers, the NRA states VIES returns are due by the 14th day after the end of the reporting period.
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For 2026 the National Statistical Institute (NSI) stated a reporting window of 1 March to 30 June for the annual activity report of the relevant entities, with a separate deadline for consolidated reports.
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Sources and verification

How we verify →

The statements this page relies on, each labelled with where it comes from. The superscript number refers to the source list below.

Editorially reviewed: 30 July 2026
Sources: 0 of 3 statements checked against the primary source

3 statements are still awaiting a check against their primary source.

Statements on this page

Limited companies must keep ongoing accounts and file their annual financial statements with the Commercial Register.^{1, 2, 3}
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For the intra-EU supplies it covers, the NRA states VIES returns are due by the 14th day after the end of the reporting period.²
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For 2026 the National Statistical Institute (NSI) stated a reporting window of 1 March to 30 June for the annual activity report of the relevant entities, with a separate deadline for consolidated reports.⁴
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Show sources (4)

1.
Registry Agency (Commercial Register)Authority
Keeps the Commercial Register. A Bulgarian company comes into existence on entry there, and annual financial statements are filed there.
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National Revenue Agency (NRA)Authority
Responsible for corporate income tax, personal income tax, VAT registration and social-security contributions.
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State Gazette (Darzhaven vestnik)Legal basis
The official gazette. Bulgarian statutes - the Commerce Act, the Corporate Income Tax Act, the Personal Income Tax Act, the VAT Act - apply in the version published there.
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National Statistical Institute (NSI)Authority
Collects the annual business-activity reporting for Bulgarian companies and publishes the relevant reporting windows.
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