AnguillaCompany Incorporation and Registration, Expert-Led

The Basic package brings the company into existence and carries it through year one. It covers the name search, structure advice, due diligence, drafting and filing, the government fee, the statutory registers, a digital set of every document, and the registered agent and office for twelve months. The Scope of Work section lists each task. Premium adds original certificates, an apostille and a corporate seal.

Yes. You never need to travel to Anguilla. The first conversation, the due diligence uploads, the signing and the filing with the Commercial Registry all run remotely. No original document has to be posted to us beforehand, and your Certificate of Incorporation arrives by email on the day it is issued, with any originals following by courier.

You receive the set with every signature point marked and a short note beside each one. Print, sign by hand, scan and send them back electronically. If any page has to be witnessed or notarised, we say so before you start, so nothing needs signing twice. Nothing is filed until every signed page is back with us.

Each director, shareholder and beneficial owner sends a certified passport copy, a proof of address dated within the last three months, evidence of source of funds and a CV or LinkedIn profile. A corporate shareholder adds its incorporation certificate, constitution and registers. The checklist section sets out the certification rules, and we review every item before anything reaches the Registry.

No. Anguilla's anti-money laundering law requires due diligence on every person behind the company before the registered agent files anything, and no client is exempt. What we control is the speed: a single checklist, plain guidance on the format of each document, and a review of every item on the day it arrives. Most clients clear it in one to three days.

Send us a short note on what the company will do and who owns it, through the form on this page or by email. An advisor replies with the vehicle we suggest, the exact document list for your owners and the full fee. If you go ahead, we invoice you, and due diligence begins the day the payment clears.

Not in Anguilla. It pays no corporate income tax, capital gains tax or withholding tax there, and dividends it pays out are not taxed either. The yearly cost to the state is the annual government fee. Tax can still arise in the country where the owners live, or where it is managed or trades, so it is worth checking that side at home.

No. The registers of directors and members are kept at the registered agent's office in Anguilla, and a copy is filed with the Registrar, but neither appears on a public search. Beneficial owners are filed by the registered agent through the Commercial Registration Electronic System within 14 days of incorporation, and that register is open to competent authorities only.

A structure with shares needs one director and one shareholder, and one person can fill both seats. Neither has to live in Anguilla or hold any particular nationality, and either can be a corporate body rather than an individual. A members' vehicle needs only one member, who can manage it directly without a separate board. Every person behind either structure still goes through due diligence first.

There is none. Shares may be issued in any currency, with or without par value. What the share count does affect is the annual government fee, which is tiered at 50,000 authorised shares. For that reason we normally authorise 50,000 shares unless your plans call for more.

It can trade across borders, hold investments and property, own intellectual property and sit at the top of a group. Regulated work is different. Banking, insurance, trust business and other financial services need a licence from the Anguilla Financial Services Commission before they start, and anything formed for that purpose is planned around the licence from the outset.

Yes. The name must end in Limited, Corporation, Incorporated or an accepted abbreviation, and it may not copy or closely resemble a name already on the register. Words that suggest a bank, an insurer, a trust company or a government link need approval first. We run the availability search with the Registrar, as often as you like, before anything is filed.

Yes. Directors and shareholders can live anywhere, meetings can be held by any means, and board decisions can pass by written resolution. One caution: if the real management happens in your home country, that country may treat the company as tax resident there. A local tax adviser can tell you where that line sits for you.

No. The law asks for a registered agent and a registered office in Anguilla, and both are included in your first year. You do not need premises or employees on the island. A company carrying on a relevant activity under the economic substance rules, such as finance, shipping or intellectual property, may need more, and we assess that with you at the start.

No audit is required and no accounts are filed on a public record. The company must keep accounting records that show its financial position, and hold them for at least six years. Where those records sit outside Anguilla, copies go to the registered office twice a year, covering January to June and July to December.

It is the statute that now governs every share-issuing vehicle formed in Anguilla. It replaced the International Business Companies Act and the Companies Act, carried existing registrations across, and moved beneficial ownership onto the Commercial Registration Electronic System. It also set one compliance date a year, the last day of the quarter in which the anniversary of incorporation falls.

Yes. An annual return goes to the Registrar each year, confirming the directors, the registered agent and the basic particulars. The return is not public and holds no financial statements. It is due on the same anniversary-quarter date as the government fee, and a late return draws a 10 per cent surcharge that later rises to 50 per cent.

The substance tests bite where a relevant activity is carried on, such as holding company business, finance and leasing, shipping, intellectual property or fund management. The filing reaches everyone, though. An economic substance return is submitted on your anniversary-quarter date, even if all it says is that no relevant activity took place. The Commercial Registry published fresh guidance on the evidence in July 2025.

A missed anniversary-quarter deadline brings a 10 per cent surcharge, then 50 per cent, and in the end strike-off from the register. Failing the economic substance rules can cost up to US$25,000 in the first year. A struck-off company cannot act legally and is costly to restore, so we keep the date in our own calendar and work to it.

Send us one email. We draft the resolution, gather the signatures, update the register held at the registered office and file whatever the Registrar needs to see. A new name is an application to the Registrar, who issues a certificate of change of name, and the articles count as amended from that date. Most changes are finished within the week.

Yes. The Business Companies Act allows continuation out of Anguilla into another jurisdiction, and from abroad into Anguilla. You can also move to a new registered agent without changing jurisdiction. We prepare and file any of these on request, and quote the work before it begins.