Our fees together with the first year maintenance fee for a Samoa readymade (shelf) company are USD1,160 excluding delivery fee. The whole incorporation process for purchasing of a readymade company could be completed in 2 working days, excluding delivery time for sending the company kit to you.
ICs may engage in any lawful business and may carry on transactions in whatever currencies they choose.Full exemption from taxation for any business activity or transaction carried out outside Samoa.Shareholders, directors and/or officers can be either corporate entities or natural persons.
A memorandum of a grandfather bearer share company is deemed to be amended with effect from 27 January 2014 to state that the company is not authorised to issue bearer shares or share warrants to bearer, convert registered shares; and with effect from that date, the company shall cease to be a bearer share company.
The exempted company is the most commonly used business form by foreign investors, as it may obtain a certificate of tax exemption, to against the imposition of any future taxation, that is usually given for 20 years in the first instance and is renewable, which can benefit from the business mainly in activities outside of the Cayman Islands.
A Cayman Islands company may be incorporated with a dual name in a foreign script. The company name may be expressed in Chinese characters (including on the company’s Certificate of Incorporation), so long as an English translation is provided.The memorandum and articles of association form the constitution of a Cayman company.
The BVI Business Companies (Amendment) Act, 2019, in force on 1 January 2020.The BVI Business Company Act has commenced operation in 2004. It provides for the incorporation, management and operation of different types of BVI companies, also the relationships between companies and their directors and members and to provide for connecting and consequential matters for regulation on all BVI companies.
Any IBC/BVI Business Company, which has the power to issue bearer shares in the Memorandum and Articles of Association, will have to pay a government incorporation fee and an annual licence fee of $1,100 per year, even if it does not actually issue bearer shares. Companies will start to pay the increased fees from 1 January 2008.
Belize International Business Companies (“IBC”) do not generally require licenses to operate. However, some business nature may require special license as per requested by the International Financial Services Commission, a regulatory board of Belize. The following are the list of certain business activities which would require licensing: Formation or management of international business companies or other offshore entities;
Our fees for the formation and registration of an International Business Company (IBC) in Marshall Islands are USD850. The fees quoted include our professional registration service, provision of a registered agent and registered office service for one year and the payment of official filing fees to the Marshall Islands Government.
IBCs pay no taxes in Bahamas. A minimum of two shareholders are required and only registered shares may be issued. No details of the shareholders appear on the public file but a register of shareholders must be kept at the registered office address of the company in the Bahamas.A minimum of two directors are required and corporate directors are permitted.