St. Lucia
St. Lucia: 3 company types, its taxes, banking and business environment.
Forming a company
Company types in St. Lucia
The 3 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 St. Lucia. 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 St. Lucia.
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 St. Lucia: where to register, file and check.
Blocs and agreements
The trade arrangements St. Lucia 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 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.
- OECS Economic Union
- Economic union · since 21 January 2011
Covers goods, services, establishment, capital, movement of people, a common external tariff.
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The British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Saint Martin are associate members of the OECS.
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
- 30%
- 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
- XCD 25
VAT
The tax on what the company sells in St. Lucia, and when it must register, as the tax authority states it.
- Standard rate
- Not in our recordsThe tax authority’s pages have not been read for St. Lucia.
Tax calendar
When the main returns and payments fall due in St. Lucia, tax year 2026, as the tax authority states it.
- Corporate tax return
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, final payment
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Corporate tax, instalments
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Personal income-tax return
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, final payment
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Personal income tax, instalments
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- VAT return
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc inaccessible when checked
- Payroll withholding
- Not in our records
irdstlucia.gov.lc 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 St. Lucia yet.
Economy and trade
What it exports
Goods St. Lucia exported, by product, as a share of its goods exports each year. Exports include goods passing through for re-export. A share describes St. Lucia’s own trade; it does not compare places.
| Product (HS heading) | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | Value, 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beer made from malt HS 2203 | 0.13% | 8.3% | 13.8% | US$3 m |
| Cartons, boxes, cases, bags and other packing containers, of paper, paperboard, cellulose wadding or webs of cellulose fibres; box files, letter trays, and similar articles, of paper or paperboard, of a kind used in offices, shops or the like HS 4819 | 2.5% | 4.4% | 9.1% | US$2 m |
| Undenatured ethyl alcohol of an alcoholic strength by volume of less than 80 % vol; spirits, liqueurs and other spirituous beverages HS 2208 | 13.0% | 10.6% | 8.1% | US$2 m |
| Locust beans, seaweeds and other algae, sugar beet and sugar cane, fresh, chilled, frozen or dried, whether or not ground; fruit stones and kernels and other vegetable products (including unroasted chicory roots of the variety Cichorium intybus sativum) of a kind used primarily for human consumption, not elsewhere specified or included HS 1212 | 6.3% | 6.8% | 6.9% | US$2 m |
| Copper waste and scrap HS 7404 | 7.9% | 3.8% | 6.5% | US$1 m |
| Wheat or meslin flour HS 1101 | under 0.05% | under 0.05% | 6.0% | US$1 m |
| Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, supersulphate cement and similar hydraulic cements, whether or not coloured or in the form of clinkers HS 2523 | under 0.05% | under 0.05% | 5.5% | US$1 m |
| Sauces and preparations therefor; mixed condiments and mixed seasonings; mustard flour and meal and prepared mustard HS 2103 | 6.3% | 5.4% | 4.7% | US$1 m |
| Aluminium waste and scrap HS 7602 | 1.1% | 1.6% | 3.6% | US$1 m |
| Ferrous waste and scrap; remelting scrap ingots of iron or steel HS 7204 | 4.9% | 2.9% | 3.1% | US$1 m |
Total goods exports, 2024: US$23 m. The ten largest headings are shown.