What responsibilities should shell company shareholders bear?

Legal analysis: shell companies generally have no fixed assets or current assets, no employees, and do not need business processing. Shell companies often violate the rules and may owe a lot of labor or welfare fees. The legal representative of the company needs to be responsible to the company. Although the legal person of a shell company does not need to make any capital contribution or management, it needs to bear huge risks. Therefore, it is best to inspect the company carefully before being a legal representative to avoid unnecessary losses.

1. criminal responsibility: the legal representative's responsibility mainly comes from "unit crime". In criminal legal terms, "company" and "enterprise" are uniformly expressed as "unit". If a unit commits a crime, it shall bear the responsibility of fine, and in many cases, the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be held accountable. Here "the person in charge" and "the person directly responsible" often overlap with "the legal representative".

2. Civil liability: Under normal circumstances, the civil liability arising from the legal representative's duty behavior is borne by the legal person, and the legal representative generally does not need to bear civil liability directly, but there are exceptions.

Legal basis: An institution undertaking asset appraisal, capital verification or verification in 208th of People's Republic of China (PRC) Company Law shall be liable for compensation within the scope of its appraisal or verification, unless it can prove that it is not at fault, because the appraisal result, capital verification or verification certificate issued by it is false and causes losses to the company's creditors.