Belize
Belize: 8 company types, its taxes, banking and business environment.
Forming a company
Company types in Belize
The 8 forms a founder can choose here, each with its own figures. Open one for its sources.
Doing business here
Business accounts
Providers whose own published list of countries names Belize. A listing means a company formed here may apply, not that it will be accepted.
Not in our records No provider's country list has been read for Belize.
EU listings
Two lists a bank checks when it opens an account for a company or its owner.
- EU high-risk third countries (AML)
- Not listed
- EU non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes
- Not listedOfficial EUR-Lex, 52026XG01465, Annex I as of 2026-02-17
Official sites
The authorities’ own sites for Belize: where to register, file and check.
Blocs and agreements
The trade arrangements Belize belongs to, as each arrangement’s own texts state them: since when, and what each covers. What a membership means for a business is for you to judge.
- CARICOM Single Market and Economy
- Single market · since 1 January 2006
Covers goods, services, establishment, capital, movement of people, a common external tariff.
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They were Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.
Regional and customs arrangements only, 36 of them; bilateral trade agreements are not yet in our records.
Tax
Company tax
Tax, and what the company owes the registry each year.
- Corporate income tax
- 0%
- Distributions
- Not in our records
- Audit
- Not in our records
- Small-company relief
- Not in our records
- Annual obligations
- Not in our records
- Annual registry fee
- BZD 200Official The registry or ministry page as of 2026-10-14
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Annual Returns/Renewals- Belize Companies | $200 < = 50,000 shared capital / $2,000.00 > 50,000 shared capital
GST
The tax on what the company sells in Belize, and when it must register, as the tax authority states it.
- The tax
- General Sales Tax (GST)
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Administering income tax, business tax, and general sales tax (GST) in accordance with the relevant legislation.
- Standard rate
- Not in our records
- Other rates
- Not stated
- Registration threshold
- Not in our records
- A foreign company
- See the note
The Belize Tax Service Department's own site is a script-drawn application that serves no readable text, so no non-resident rule could be read.
- Tax authority
- Belize Tax Service Department (BTS), Ministry of Finance
Tax calendar
When the main returns and payments fall due in Belize, tax year 2025, as the tax authority states it.
- Corporate tax return
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, final payment
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, instalments
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- Personal income-tax return
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, final payment
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, instalments
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
- VAT return
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz/tax_resources/category/general-sales-tax inaccessible when checked
- Payroll withholding
- Not in our records
bts.gov.bz inaccessible when checked
Running the company
Running a company here
Not in our records The authorities’ pages on running a company have not been read for Belize yet.
Economy and trade
What it exports
Goods Belize exported, by product, as a share of its goods exports each year. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. A share describes Belize’s own trade; it does not compare places.
| Product (HS heading) | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Value, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form HS 1701 | 23.3% | 25.5% | 23.4% | US$101 m |
| Bananas, including plantains, fresh or dried HS 0803 | 21.1% | 10.4% | 12.8% | US$55 m |
| Fish, frozen, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0304 HS 0303 | 4.5% | 8.1% | 12.8% | US$55 m |
| Molasses resulting from the extraction or refining of sugar HS 1703 | 2.7% | 4.9% | 6.3% | US$27 m |
| Fruit or nut juices (including grape must and coconut water) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter HS 2009 | 3.1% | 3.6% | 4.9% | US$21 m |
| Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic constituents of the preparations; waste oils HS 2710 | under 0.05% | 5.4% | 3.8% | US$16 m |
| Cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes HS 2402 | under 0.05% | 3.7% | 3.4% | US$15 m |
| Crustaceans, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked crustaceans, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; crustaceans, in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, whether or not chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine HS 0306 | 5.1% | 4.5% | 3.3% | US$14 m |
| Molluscs, whether in shell or not, live, fresh, chilled, frozen, dried, salted or in brine; smoked molluscs, whether in shell or not, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process HS 0307 | 4.7% | 3.8% | 3.2% | US$14 m |
| Bran, sharps and other residues, whether or not in the form of pellets, derived from the sifting, milling or other working of cereals or of leguminous plants HS 2302 | under 0.05% | 4.3% | 1.6% | US$7 m |
Total goods exports, 2024: US$431 m. The ten largest headings are shown.