Nevis Nevis 
Nevis LLCs and St. Kitts companies are chosen for holding and asset-protection structures that have to last. We help you set the entity up properly and keep it maintained year after year, with renewals, accounts, and records in one pair of hands.
Expanship is an independent corporate services provider, not a government agency, and is not affiliated with the Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Nevis Financial Services Regulatory Commission, or the Registrar of Companies. We advise, prepare, and coordinate on your behalf; those authorities alone decide what they approve.
The Jurisdiction
Your company is formed under Nevis ordinances that have been in force and amended since 1984, inside an English common law system. Disputes are heard by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and the final appeal is to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
The East Caribbean dollar is pegged to the United States dollar, so the rate your accounts translate at does not move. International business companies move funds in any currency, in and out, without approval from the Federation.
Shareholders, members, directors, managers and beneficial owners are recorded with your registered agent rather than on a public file, and are produced to the Financial Services Regulatory Commission on request. There is no register a member of the public can search.
On Nevis the local presence is a registered agent and the registered office that agent provides. The ordinance sets no residence requirement for directors, members or managers, and it does not oblige the company to lease space or employ anyone on the island, so the corporation is normally managed from wherever its owner sits.
The renewal fee on the anniversary of registration, and a Simplified Tax Return to the Inland Revenue Department by 15 April for the calendar year before. There is no annual return to file, no statutory audit and no economic substance regime to report under.
Our services
Everything we do for a Nevis corporation, grouped by the kind of work. Follow any branch to the page that describes it.
The company
Formed once through a registered agent on Nevis, whichever structure you choose, then maintained by us through each renewal for as long as you own it.
Overview
Existing company
After incorporation
Pricing
Required at all times
On the board
On the share register
Overview
The annual filing
The record
Pricing
Twenty measures in five categories, scored out of ten by our team, and Nevis's present standing with the international bodies that assess the federation.
Privacy & Confidentiality
Average 7.8
Banking & Financial
Average 8.1
Regulatory & Compliance
Average 8.8
Business Environment
Average 9.4
International Recognition
Average 6.6
Saint Kitts and Nevis scores 8.1 overall
Saint Kitts and Nevis
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 one piece of work with one fee. The Nevis ordinances attach two appointments for as long as the corporation exists, and two more are optional.
Two legal structures on Nevis, and every piece of work between your enquiry and the day the corporation exists.
Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance, 1984 (as amended)
Nevis Limited Liability Company Ordinance, 1995 (as amended)
Already have a Nevis 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 Registrar of Companies of Saint Kitts and Nevis 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.
The Nevis ordinances require a registered agent and a registered office on the island for the life of the corporation. The first year of both is inside the formation fee; each renews annually.
Appointment A
A company must at all times have a registered agent on Nevis. Yours is appointed through us, receives everything the authority sends, and stays on the record with the authorities.
About registered agentsAppointment B
An address on Nevis that the authorities hold on file as your company’s address. Your statutory records are kept there, within reach of your registered agent, and your correspondence is forwarded on.
About the registered officeDecided at formation and documented before any share is issued. The two arrangements are independent: one concerns the board, the other the shareholding.
On the board
On the share register
The account is opened once the corporation exists, so it stands apart from the formation itself. Arranged alongside the formation, or on its own afterwards.
Commonly opened in the Eastern Caribbean, North America, Europe, Asia, or with a digital provider. There is no requirement to bank in the Federation, and no exchange controls either way.
Ongoing compliance
A Nevis corporation is formed once and maintained for as long as you own it. Its year has two dates, the renewal and the tax return, and we hold both under one annual package.
One document leaves your company each year, on a date the Federation sets. It is drafted from records we already hold, sent to you for a single approval, and filed.
The one service with no filing date attached to it, because it is the thing the return above draws on. Kept month by month, so the figures already exist on the day they are needed.
Accounting and bookkeeping Transactions recorded, accounts reconciled and financial statements drafted, with the records kept accessible to your registered agent and preserved for at least five years, as the Ordinance requires.Why Expanship
Nevis asks little of a company each year, and we make sure that little is done: the renewal, the simplified tax return, the books and the local address, from the team that set it up, at a price you knew first.
What every engagement includes
Setup, the local presence and the year’s filings in one figure you see before we begin.
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.
The renewal, the simplified tax return, ownership and records, by the team that set it up.
Onboarding to signing, all online. No trip to the islands unless the law demands one.
Strict security protocols and professional confidentiality throughout the process.
FAQ
The island first, then the practical side of forming and keeping a corporation there.
English common law, under Nevis ordinances in force and amended since 1984. Disputes are heard by the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and the final appeal is to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
A Nevis corporation pays no tax in the federation on income earned outside it. It files a short annual tax return with the Inland Revenue Department confirming where it is resident and whether it has a permanent establishment. There is no capital gains tax.
St Kitts and Nevis is on neither EU list, Annex I or Annex II, and is not under FATF increased monitoring. The OECD Global Forum rates it Largely Compliant for exchange of information.
Only the authorities, on request. Shareholders, members, directors, managers and beneficial owners are recorded with the registered agent, not on any public file. There is no search a member of the public can run.
Yes. All of the shares can be held by non-residents, and there is no rule that any director, member or manager live in the federation. The registered agent on Nevis is the only local requirement.
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 Saint Kitts and Nevis, the Nevis Financial Services Regulatory Commission, or the Registrar of Companies. 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 Registrar of Companies of Saint Kitts and Nevis 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 a registered agent and a registered office on the island, which we arrange and hold. The corporation is not obliged to lease space or employ anyone, and its owners and directors can be anywhere.
Usually outside the federation. Accounts are opened in the Eastern Caribbean, North America, Europe or Asia, or with a digital provider. There is no requirement to bank locally and no exchange controls. We prepare the application and the bank makes the decision.
Formation on Nevis starts from US$1,149 in our packages, and that figure already includes the government fee, the first year of registered agent and office, and the company documents. From the second year the annual package starts from US$999. Government fees are itemised separately on the pricing page.
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