Anguilla Anguilla 
Anguilla keeps company formalities light, and we keep them lighter still. Rely on one partner to set up your Anguilla company and look after it afterwards, from annual renewals and accounting to secretarial work and company records.
Expanship is an independent corporate services provider, not a government agency, and is not affiliated with the Government of Anguilla, the Anguilla Financial Services Commission, or the Anguilla Commercial Registry. We advise, prepare, and coordinate on your behalf; those authorities alone decide what they approve.
The Jurisdiction
Anguilla's 2022 statute sits inside English common law. First instance and appeal are heard by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, a court shared by nine territories, and the final appeal goes to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
The East Caribbean dollar has been fixed at 2.70 to the United States dollar by the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, so the rate your accounts translate at does not move. There are no exchange controls: funds enter and leave the company in any currency without a permit from the territory.
Directors, members and beneficial owners are filed through the Commercial Registration Electronic System and are available to competent authorities on request. The register is not searchable by the public, so a customer, competitor or stranger has nothing to look up.
Anguilla's local presence begins and ends with a registered agent and a registered office on the island. Nobody on the board or among the shareholders has to live here, and the company needs no premises or staff of its own; the agent's office is the company's address for every purpose the law cares about.
Anguilla collects its year in a single moment: the annual return, the government fee and the economic substance declaration all fall due on the last day of your anniversary quarter. There is no audit and no corporate tax return to file in between.
Our services
Four kinds of work for an Anguilla company, from formation to the yearly filings. Each branch leads to the page that explains it.
The company
Formed once through a registered agent on the island, with our team preparing and filing the paperwork, then maintained by us year after year.
Overview
The entity
Existing company
After incorporation
Pricing
Overview
Annual filings
Pricing
In the territory
Behind the address
On the board
On the share register
How we rate Anguilla on twenty measures in five categories, scored out of ten, with the territory's current standing at the international bodies that review it.
Privacy & Confidentiality
Average 7.3
Banking & Financial
Average 7.4
Regulatory & Compliance
Average 7.6
Business Environment
Average 9.4
International Recognition
Average 6.3
Anguilla scores 7.6 overall
Anguilla
What the beneficial ownership register holds, who is allowed to see it, and what leaves the jurisdiction automatically each year.
How readily international banks open and hold accounts for entities formed here, and how freely money moves once they do.
The governing law, the bodies that supervise it, and where the jurisdiction sits on the international tax and transparency regimes.
What it takes to form and run an entity here: how fast, what it is taxed, and how stable the law behind it has proved.
How the jurisdiction is regarded outside its own borders, and how far its treaty and trade arrangements actually reach.
Start your company
The formation is a single engagement with a single fee. Under the Business Companies Act, 2022 two appointments follow the company for life, and two more are yours to choose.
One legal structure in Anguilla, and every piece of work between your enquiry and the day the company exists.
Anguilla Business Companies Act, 2022
Already have an Anguilla company with another agent? Bring it to us for US$350, one time. Its number, its date and its contracts do not change. About transferring your company
The Anguilla Commercial Registry does not accept applications from the public: the filing must be made by a registered agent. Expanship is not a government agency and is not that agent — we prepare and check your file and instruct that provider to file it, and the decision, with its timing, rests with the authority.
Anguilla asks for a registered agent and a registered office from the first day to the last. Your first year of both sits inside the incorporation fee; after that they renew once a year.
Appointment A
A company must at all times have a registered agent in Anguilla. The appointment is arranged and held through us, so everything the authority sends arrives at one desk and your record with the authorities stays current.
About registered agentsAppointment B
An address in Anguilla that is recorded as your company’s address. Your statutory records are held there and your correspondence is forwarded on.
About the registered officeSettled when the company is formed rather than added later. Two distinct arrangements, one for the board and one for the shares, each put in writing before a share is issued.
On the board
On the share register
A bank account can only be opened once the company exists, so it sits outside the incorporation. Help with it is included in every package.
Commonly opened in the United Kingdom, Singapore, the Caribbean, or with a digital provider. There is no local deposit requirement, and no exchange controls either way.
Ongoing compliance
An Anguilla company is formed once and then kept, for as long as you own it, on a single date each year. We hold that work under one annual package, with a page for each part of it.
Documents that leave your company on dates the territory sets. Each one is drafted from records we already hold, sent to you for a single approval, and filed.
No date of its own, because every filing above is built from it. Kept month by month, so the figures exist before the anniversary quarter closes.
Accounting and bookkeeping Transactions recorded, accounts reconciled and financial statements kept current, with the records held at your registered office where the law expects to find them.Why Expanship
From the day your Anguilla company is set up, one team carries it: the annual return, the substance return, the books and the local address, under one price agreed before anything began.
What every engagement includes
One figure for setup, the local presence and the year’s filings, shown before we start.
One person who knows your file and answers for it, not a ticket queue.
What we need from you, and what happens next, set out before the work starts.
Annual return, substance return, ownership and records, by the team that knows your file.
Onboarding to signing, all online. No trip to Anguilla unless the law demands one.
Strict security protocols and professional confidentiality throughout the process.
FAQ
The jurisdiction first, then the practical side of forming and keeping a company there.
English common law, under a companies statute rewritten in 2022. First instance and appeal are heard by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, which serves nine territories, and the final appeal goes to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
Anguilla charges no corporate income tax, no capital gains tax and no withholding tax. The company pays an annual government fee. Tax may still apply where the company is managed or where its owners are resident, which needs advice in that country.
The OECD Global Forum rates Anguilla Largely Compliant for exchange of information, and it is not under FATF increased monitoring. The EU has kept Anguilla on Annex I, its list of non-cooperative jurisdictions, since October 2023, which some European counterparties treat as a reason for extra due diligence.
No. Directors, members and beneficial owners are filed with the authorities through an electronic system and are available to them on request. The public cannot search the record, so nothing about the ownership is visible to a customer or competitor.
No. An Anguilla company can be wholly owned and directed by non-residents. There is no requirement for a local partner, a resident director or a resident shareholder.
No. Expanship is a privately owned corporate services company. We are not a government agency, registry, or regulator, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting on behalf of the Government of Anguilla, the Anguilla Financial Services Commission, or the Anguilla Commercial Registry. Company registrations, certificates, and registry documents are issued solely by those authorities, at their discretion. Our fee is for our own work; government fees are set by those authorities and not by us.
No. The Anguilla Commercial Registry does not accept incorporation filings from the public — the filing must be made by a registered agent. Engaging a provider is therefore a requirement of local law rather than a shortcut past something you could do yourself. Expanship prepares and checks your file and instructs that provider to make the filing; the decision, and its timing, rest with the authority.
Only the registered agent and the registered office, which we arrange and hold. Nobody on the board or among the shareholders has to be on the island, and the company needs no premises or staff of its own.
Usually outside Anguilla, in the United Kingdom, Singapore or elsewhere in the Caribbean, or with a digital provider. There is no local deposit requirement and no exchange controls. We prepare the application and follow it through, and the bank makes the decision on its own timetable.
Our formation packages start from US$1,249, including the government fee, the first year of registered agent and registered office, and the company documents. The annual package for everything that follows starts from US$1,099 a year, with government fees shown separately on the pricing page.
Contact Us
Whether you are weighing Anguilla against other options or already have a company there, write to us. A member of our team replies, not an autoresponder.
