Offshore Companies

Choose the jurisdiction which best suits your needs

Vanuatu

Why choose this jurisdiction when starting a business?

Vanuatu International Company (VIC)

There are many benefits to registering an International company in an offshore finance centre such as Vanuatu, where there are no personal or corporate income taxes, no capital gains taxes and a relatively high degree of privacy regarding ownership.
Vanuatu is one of the few countries that, so far, did not sign and did not express any expected date to sign the AEOI – Automatic Exchange Of Information.

Director and shareholder meetings held anywhere

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No audit on financial statements

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High level of privacy and confidentiality

Packages and Prices

Vanuatu

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Standard
Package

The cheapest option company formation, payment government fees, registered office, local registered agent, Client Due Diligence (CDD) full and free tax and legal assistance, and much more, to keep your entity fully compliant.

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Business
Package

A special package with all services as included on the Standard Package, plus our Bank Account opening services with an internationally known financial institution, offering you online banking, multi-currency account, debit cards and all other major banking services you may need.

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Premium
Package

A package with all services as included on the Business Package plus full Nominee Services (Nominee Members and Managers) providing you the highest degree in terms of confidentiality and anonymity.

Benefits include:

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May carry on business anywhere in the world except Vanuatu.
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May carry on any business pursuant to Vanuatu International Companies Act Cap.222 except to the limitation of the jurisdiction the business is carried, e.g. banking, insurance.
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Company name may end with Limited, Incorporated, Corporation, Sendirian Berhad, Responsabilite Limitee, Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung, Besloten Vennootschap or their abbreviations.
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Director and shareholder may be natural person or corporate entity, (1) no specific requirement on residence or citizenship, (2) minimum number is 1, (3) sole director may also be the sole shareholder.
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Director meeting and shareholder meeting may be held anywhere.
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Meetings via telephone, facsimile, conference calls, electronic means are acceptable.
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May not require an authorized capital.
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Government fee is fixed disregard the amount of capital.
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Limited by shares or guarantee or both.
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Bearer shares are allowed but shares can only be held by an authorized custodian not by the owner.
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No audit on financial statements.
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No annual returns, filing required.
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Except the constitution filed with the Commission Registry, the company’s statutory registers will be maintained only with the registered agent.
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No need to file with governmental authorities in respect of company structure.
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Company search not entertained unless authorized by the international company.
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High level of privacy and confidentiality.
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Government support on high confidentiality by the provisions of the International Companies Act No.32 of 1992. The Act states that:

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(1) Any person, except when required by a court of competent jurisdiction, with respect to any company otherwise than for the purposes of the administration of this Act or for the carrying on of the business of the company, in Vanuatu or elsewhere, divulge, attempts, offers or threatens to divulges or induces or attempts to induce other persons to divulge any information cornering or respecting: (a) The shareholding in or beneficial ownership of any share or shares in a company; (b) The management of such company; or (c) Any of the business, financial or other affairs or transactions of the company; shall be guilty of an offence;
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of sub section (1) shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding US$ 100,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 5 years or to both such fine and imprisonment.”

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