Business CompanyAnguilla
What it takes to form, own and run a private limited company in Anguilla, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.
This company type
At a glance
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A company shall at all times have one or more members.
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A private company must have at least one director.
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
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For the incorporation of a— (a) company limited by shares
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There are no income, capital gains, estate, profit or other forms of direct taxation on either individuals or corporations, whether resident in Anguilla or not.
Form it
Who registers it
- Registry
- Formed without visiting
- Yes
- Formed online
- Yes
What it takes to form
- A notary
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- A resident director
- Not required
- Paying up the capital
- Consideration for a share with par value may not be less than its par value (s.47(2)); a share may be issued for consideration in any form (s.47(1)).
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The consideration for a share with par value shall not be less than the par value of the share.
Own it
Who may own and run it
- Directors
- At least 1 · none need live there
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A private company must have at least one director.
- Shareholders
- At least 1
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A company shall at all times have one or more members.
- Members
- At least 1 · one person may form it alone
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A company shall at all times have one or more members.
- A local company secretary
- Not required
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A private company is not required to but is encouraged to have a secretary.
- A local registered agent
- Required
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a company shall at all times have a registered agent in
Each year, at the registry
- Annual registry fee
- USD 350 (about €306)
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issue shares, authorised to issue no more than 50,000 shares 350 230
- Accounts on the public record
- No
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A company shall keep records that- (a) are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions; and
- Audit for a small company
- Not required
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A company shall keep records that- (a) are sufficient to show and explain the company's transactions; and
- Audit
- Not in our records
Important dates
When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.
- Annual return: for an exempted company, a declaration
- Not in our records
With Registrar
Not stated on commercialregistry.ai/Content/documents/legislation/Business when checked
- Annual fee of an exempted company, tendered with its annual return
- Not in our records
With Registrar
Not stated on commercialregistry.ai/Content/documents/legislation/Business when checked
What is public
- Directors
- Public
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inspect any docwnent retained by the Registrar in accordance with section 259
- Shareholders
- Public
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inspect any docwnent retained by the Registrar in accordance with section 259
Tax
Tax on profit
How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.
No tax on profit · 0%
The Anguilla Commercial Registry states there are no income, capital gains, estate, profit or other forms of direct taxation on individuals or corporations; the Ministry of Finance's GST white paper (2021) states personal and business income taxes do not exist in Anguilla (labour income is taxed through a payroll levy).
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There are no income, capital gains, estate, profit or other forms of direct taxation on either individuals or corporations, whether resident in Anguilla or not.
Work it out on a profit figure: the company’s tax, the owner’s, and what is left.
- CFC rules in Anguilla
- Not in our records
Close it
Closing it
The other end, which most guides leave out.
- Route
- Voluntary liquidation (Part 15, from s.227; declaration of solvency under s.228), or striking off by the Registrar (s.241).
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The Registrar may strike the name ofa company off the Register if-
- Statutory fee
- Not in our records
Every business in Anguilla
GST
- The tax
- Goods and Services Tax (GST)
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GST is a tax on the consumption of goods and services.
- Standard rate
- 13%
Supplies zero-rated under Schedule 1 of the Act bear GST at 0% (s.8(1)(a)); the Schedule was not read in full, so no reduced rates are listed.
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there shall be levied and paid a tax known as the goods and services tax, at a positive rate of 13% on the value of—
- Other rates
- Not stated
- Registration threshold
- XCD 300,000
total value of taxable supplies equals or is expected to equal or exceed EC$300,000 (GST Act s.10(1)); any period of 12 or fewer months, or the 12 months ahead
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every person who carries on a taxable activity and is not registered, is required to apply for registration within 15 days of
- A foreign company
- The same threshold applies
Section 10(1) puts the same registration threshold on 'every person who carries on a taxable activity', and s.5(1) defines a taxable activity as one carried on in or partly in Anguilla; Part 4 sets no earlier trigger for a non-resident (the other triggers are the State, auctioneers, public-entertainment promoters and accommodation suppliers). Whether a non-resident must appoint a local representative is not stated in the Act or Guides read; s.54 only makes the person controlling a non-resident's affairs in Anguilla responsible for its duties. Imported services are taxed on the recipient (s.8(2)(c)).
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every person who carries on a taxable activity and is not registered, is required to apply for registration within 15 days of
- Returns filed
- Monthly
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The tax period applicable to a registered person is the calendar month as notified to the registered person by the Comptroller.
- Tax authority
- Registration page read 2026-10-25
Payment and banking services
None of the services whose lists we hold names Anguilla. Each provider, and what a listing means.
Reference
Its name and code
- Kind
- Private limited companyDerived our grouping, the same words in every country
- Name in law
- Business Company
- Identifier
- AI-BUSINESS-COMPANYA form ISO 20275 does not list.