Mauritius Mauritius 
Mauritius connects Africa, Asia, and global capital, and a Global Business Company there needs steady local upkeep. We guide the setup and act as one partner for your annual filings, accounts, secretarial support, and company records.
Expanship is an independent corporate services provider, not a government agency, and is not affiliated with the Government of Mauritius, the Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), or the Corporate and Business Registration Department. We advise, prepare, and coordinate on your behalf; those authorities alone decide what they approve.
The Jurisdiction
Mauritius runs a civil code inherited from France alongside English common law, and corporate matters sit on the common law side under the Companies Act 2001. The final appeal is heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, which is unusual for a jurisdiction with a civil code and useful when a counterparty asks where a dispute would end.
The rupee is the local currency, but share capital and accounts are denominated in whatever currency you choose, and the company's bank account can sit outside Mauritius entirely. There are no exchange controls on funds entering or leaving.
Beneficial ownership is held by your management company and kept current, with any change reported within fourteen days. The annual return is the public filing; the financial summary that goes to the Financial Services Commission is not published.
Mauritius is administered rather than self-administered: a management company holds the records, makes the filings and is the regulator's point of contact. There is no resident director requirement, no company secretary and no local staff, but the management company is not optional.
The annual authorisation fee and the annual registration fee both fall on 1 July. The financial summary goes to the Financial Services Commission within six months of the year end, built from your accounts. The return of income follows within six months of the accounting period closing. It is the fullest calendar in our range, and it is why the management company exists.
Our services
How our Mauritius services fit together, from forming the company to the returns that follow each year. Follow a branch to read more.
The company
Incorporated once through a management company, whichever structure you choose, then administered by us for as long as you own it.
Overview
The entity
Existing company
After incorporation
Pricing
Overview
Annual filings
The record
Pricing
On the ground
The two seats
Twenty measures in five categories, scored out of ten by our team, and Mauritius's present standing with the international bodies that assess it.
Privacy & Confidentiality
Average 5.9
Banking & Financial
Average 8.6
Regulatory & Compliance
Average 8.8
Business Environment
Average 8.4
International Recognition
Average 8.5
Mauritius scores 8.0 overall
Mauritius
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
One piece of work, one fee, settled with two authorities. Mauritius then asks for two appointments that last as long as the company does, and your structure may call for two more.
One legal structure in Mauritius, and every piece of work between your enquiry and a company incorporated and authorised by the two authorities.
Mauritius Companies Act 2001 and Financial Services Act 2007
Already have a Mauritius 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 Corporate and Business Registration Department does not accept applications from the public: the filing must be made by a management company acting as 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.
Mauritius attaches a management company and a physical address to the company for its whole life. Both are covered for the first year inside the incorporation fee, then renew each year.
Appointment A
An Authorised Company must at all times have a management company in Mauritius as its registered agent. We arrange that appointment and work behind it, so everything the two authorities send reaches one desk.
About registered agentsAppointment B
A physical address in Mauritius that is recorded as your company’s address. Your statutory records are held there and your correspondence is forwarded on.
About the registered officeA governance choice made when the company is formed. Two separate arrangements, one for the board and one for the shareholding, each documented before any share is allotted.
On the board
On the share register
The account comes once the company is authorised and exists, so it is a step after the incorporation. Account opening support is inside every package, or arranged on its own.
Held in US dollars, euro, sterling, rand, rupees, and the account itself need not sit in Mauritius. There are no exchange controls either way.
Ongoing compliance
A Mauritius Authorised Company is incorporated once and maintained for as long as you own it. Three authorities want something from it each year. We hold that work under a single annual package, and every part of it has a page of its own if you want to read it in full.
Three documents that leave your company each year, one to each authority that holds it. Every one is drafted from records we already hold, sent to you for a single approval, and filed.
No filing date of its own, because the financial summary and the return of income are both built from it. Kept month by month, so the figures are ready six months before they are due.
Accounting and bookkeeping Transactions recorded, accounts reconciled and financial statements kept current, with the records held at your registered office where the Companies Act expects to find them.Why Expanship
A Mauritius company answers to three authorities with three filings a year. One team handles the setup and all three, along with the books and the local office, at a price you knew before anything began.
What every engagement includes
The setup, the local office and all three annual filings in one figure, agreed first.
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.
Three authorities, three filings and the records, handled by the people who set it up.
Onboarding to signing, all online. No trip to Mauritius unless the law demands one.
Strict security protocols and professional confidentiality throughout the process.
FAQ
What Mauritius offers, what it asks each year, and how we handle it.
Mauritius runs a civil code inherited from France alongside English common law, and company matters sit on the common law side under the Companies Act 2001 and the Financial Services Act 2007. The final appeal is heard by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
The headline corporate rate is 15 per cent. A company managed and controlled from outside Mauritius is treated as non-resident and is charged only on income arising in Mauritius, while filing a return of income each year regardless. There is no capital gains tax and no withholding tax on dividends to non-residents.
Mauritius is on neither EU list, having been removed from Annex II in 2022, and it left FATF increased monitoring the same year. The OECD Global Forum rates it Largely Compliant, and it is a key participant in the Africa Initiative on tax transparency.
The annual return is the public filing. Beneficial ownership is held by the management company and reported to the regulator, with changes notified within fourteen days, and it is not published. The financial summary that goes to the regulator is not public either.
Yes. Non-residents can own a Mauritius company in full, and there is no resident director requirement for a company managed from abroad. What Mauritius does require is a management company in Mauritius to hold the records and make the filings.
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 Mauritius, the Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), or the Corporate and Business Registration Department. 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 Corporate and Business Registration Department does not accept incorporation filings from the public — the filing must be made by a management company acting as 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.
Yes. Mauritius is administered rather than self-administered: a management company, which we arrange, holds the records and is the regulator's point of contact. There is no resident director requirement, no company secretary and no local staff for a company managed from abroad.
No. Share capital and accounts can be in US dollars, euro, sterling, rand or rupees, and the bank account can sit outside Mauritius entirely. There are no exchange controls. We prepare the application and the bank makes the decision.
Mauritius costs more than the offshore jurisdictions because two authorities and a management company are involved. Formation starts from US$2,849, with both government fees, the first year of the management company and office, and the documents included, and the annual package starts from US$2,699 a year. Government fees are itemised on the pricing page.
Contact Us
Africa, Asia, a Global Business Company, or the three filings a year on one you already hold. Write to us and a Mauritius advisor will follow up.
