Yes, you need a business license to do business.

The business license is a document that our business operators must apply for. If we don't have a business license, we will be engaged in illegal business, and we will be investigated and punished by the industrial and commercial departments, but we will be fined, and in case of tax evasion, we will be punished by the tax authorities.

a business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in a certain production and business activities. Its format shall be uniformly stipulated by the State Administration for Industry and Commerce.

Process of opening a store to apply for a business license:

1. Go to the industrial and commercial department where the new address is located to apply for the "Notice of Transfer of Enterprise Registration File". When applying for a business license, you need to bring the same information as that provided by the new enterprise. When the information is complete, you can get the "Notice of Transfer of Enterprise Registration File" and "Notice on Change of Registration of Relocation".

2. go to the original industrial and commercial registration department to go through the formalities of transferring industrial and commercial information with the notification letter of transferring enterprise registration files (the information will be mailed by the industrial and commercial departments of the two places), and the industrial and commercial department of the old address will issue the notification of approval of enterprise moving out after accepting the notification letter of transferring enterprise registration files.

3. After going through the formalities, wait for the industrial and commercial department of the new address to call the enterprise after receiving the industrial and commercial information of the enterprise, bring the "Notice of Approval of Enterprise Moving Out" to the new industrial and commercial department to handle the specific address change matters (fill in a "Registration Form for Change, Power of Attorney"), and bring the "Notice of Change of Registration for Relocation" to the licensing window for a new "business license" seven days after completing the formalities.

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Necessity of business license:

1. A business license is a certificate issued by the administrative department for industry and commerce to allow industrial and commercial enterprises and individual operators to engage in a certain production and business activities. Without a business license, industrial and commercial enterprises or individual operators are not allowed to start business, nor are they allowed to carve official seals, sign contracts, register trademarks or publish advertisements, and banks are not allowed to open accounts.

2. Units or individuals without business licenses are not allowed to operate.

if the business is unlicensed, then according to Article 14 of the Measures for Investigating and Banning Unlicensed Business, "the unlicensed business shall be banned by the administrative department for industry and commerce according to law, and the illegal income shall be confiscated; Those who violate the criminal law shall be investigated for criminal responsibility according to the provisions of the criminal law on the crime of illegal business operation, the crime of major accidents, the crime of major labor safety accidents, the crime of causing accidents with dangerous goods or other crimes;

If the case is not serious enough for criminal punishment, a fine of less than 21,111 yuan shall be imposed; If the scale of unlicensed operation is large and the social harm is serious, a fine of more than 21,111 yuan and less than 211,111 yuan shall be imposed; Unlicensed business practices endanger human health, have major security risks, threaten the safety of the public, and destroy environmental resources. Tools, equipment, raw materials, products (commodities) and other property specially used for unlicensed business operations shall be confiscated, and a fine of 51,111 yuan to 511,111 yuan shall be imposed.

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