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St. Vincent and the Grenadines offers flexible company types at a sensible cost. We help you choose and set up the right one, then keep it maintained with annual renewals, accounts, secretarial support, and records handled by a single team.
Expanship is an independent corporate services provider, not a government agency, and is not affiliated with the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines or the Financial Services Authority (SVG). We advise, prepare, and coordinate on your behalf; those authorities alone decide what they approve.
The Jurisdiction
The Business Companies Act of 2007, consolidated in 2019, operates within English common law. Disputes go before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, the regional court St Vincent shares with its neighbours, and from there the final appeal lies to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
The East Caribbean dollar is fixed at 2.70 to the United States dollar, so the rate your accounts translate at does not move. Funds enter and leave the company in any currency without a permit from the state.
The Register of Beneficial Owners is held by your registered agent and shared with authorities only on request. Directors and members are notified to the Financial Services Authority rather than published, so there is no public file a stranger can inspect.
St Vincent and the Grenadines asks that a registered agent and a registered office be kept in the state, and asks for no other presence. Neither directors nor shareholders have to be resident, and the company is not required to rent premises or take on staff here, so the business can be run from wherever its owners already are.
The annual government fee on 31 December, whatever year end you keep. The annual tax return three months after your year end, prepared from your figures. Financial statements five months after the balance date. An economic substance return four months after the basis period ends. There is no statutory audit.
Our services
Everything we do for a St Vincent and the Grenadines company, grouped by the kind of work. Follow any branch to its page.
The company
Formed once through a registered agent, whichever structure you choose, then maintained by us through each year end that follows.
Overview
The entity
Existing company
After incorporation
Pricing
Overview
The record
Pricing
In the islands
The two seats
Twenty measures in five categories, scored out of ten by our team, and the present standing of St Vincent and the Grenadines with the international bodies that assess it.
Privacy & Confidentiality
Average 7.4
Banking & Financial
Average 7.8
Regulatory & Compliance
Average 8.5
Business Environment
Average 9.0
International Recognition
Average 6.1
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines scores 7.8 overall
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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 fee covers the incorporation. The Business Companies Act then requires two appointments for as long as the company exists, and your structure may call for two more.
One legal structure in St Vincent and the Grenadines, and every piece of work between your enquiry and the day the company exists.
Business Companies (Amendment and Consolidation) Act, 2007 (as amended)
Already have a St Vincent 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 Financial Services Authority (SVG) 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.
St Vincent and the Grenadines requires a registered agent and a registered office for the life of the company. Your first year of each is covered by the incorporation fee, and each renews yearly.
Appointment A
A company must at all times have a registered agent in St Vincent and the Grenadines. We arrange that appointment through a corporate services provider and hold your record behind it, so everything the Financial Services Authority sends arrives at one address.
About registered agentsAppointment B
An address in Kingstown held by the Financial Services Authority as your company’s address. Your statutory records are kept there and your correspondence is forwarded on.
About the registered officeSettled as the company is formed. The board arrangement and the shareholding arrangement are documented separately, and both before any share is allotted.
On the board
On the share register
The company has to exist before an account can be opened, which is why this step sits after the incorporation. Guided setup with one digital platform is in every package; a wider search is arranged on its own.
Commonly opened in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, the United States, or with a digital provider. There is no requirement to bank in the islands, and no exchange controls either way.
Ongoing compliance
A St Vincent company is formed once and maintained for as long as you own it. Four filings follow each year end, and we hold them under one annual package, each with a page of its own.
Three documents that leave your company on dates the islands set. Each one is drafted from records we already hold, sent to you for a single approval, and filed.
The one service without a date attached, because the tax return, the financial statements and the substance return all draw on it. Kept month by month, so the figures exist before your year end does.
Accounting and bookkeeping Transactions recorded and accounts reconciled through the year, so the records are sufficient to explain what the company did and show where it stands.Why Expanship
In St. Vincent and the Grenadines the year brings a tax return, financial statements and a substance return. The same team that set your company up handles all three, plus the books and the local address, at a price fixed first.
What every engagement includes
Setup, the local presence and the year’s three 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.
Tax return, financial statements, substance return and records, by one team.
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 facts about the jurisdiction, then what it takes to form and keep a company there.
English common law, under a companies statute passed in 2007 and consolidated in 2019. Disputes go before the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, and the final appeal lies to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London.
Tax applies only to income sourced in St Vincent and the Grenadines. Foreign-sourced income is outside the charge, though the company files an annual tax return with the Inland Revenue Department whether or not any tax falls due. There is no statutory audit.
St Vincent and the Grenadines is on neither EU list, Annex I or Annex II, and is not under FATF increased monitoring, having exited the regional follow-up process. The OECD Global Forum rates it Largely Compliant.
Only the authorities. The beneficial ownership record is held by the registered agent and shared on request, and directors and members are notified to the Financial Services Authority rather than published. There is no public file a stranger can inspect.
Yes. A St Vincent company can be wholly owned by non-residents, whether individuals or companies, and the directors can be anywhere. Nothing in the statute asks for a local shareholder or a resident director.
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 Vincent and the Grenadines or the Financial Services Authority (SVG). 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 Financial Services Authority (SVG) 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.
Yes. The registered agent and registered office, which we hold, are all that must be in the state. Directors and shareholders can be anywhere, and the company is not required to rent premises or take on staff.
Yes. Accounts are commonly opened in Singapore, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom or the United States, or with a digital provider. There is no requirement to bank in the islands and no exchange controls. We prepare the file and the bank decides.
Forming a St Vincent company starts from US$1,049 in our packages, with the government fee, the first year of registered agent and office, and the documents inside that figure. The annual package that handles the four filings starts from US$949 a year. The pricing page separates our fee from the government's.
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Whether you are assessing St. Vincent and the Grenadines or already have a company there, tell us what you need and an advisor will come back to you.
