Sociedade por Quotas LdaCape Verde
What it takes to form, own and run a private limited company in Cape Verde, 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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um sócio único, pessoa singular ou coletiva, que é o titular
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
Form it
Who registers it
- Registry
- Not in our records
- Formed without visiting
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Formed online
- No
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
- Cash contributions are deposited in a bank account in the company's name before registration (Art. 177(1)); the contract may defer up to half of the cash contributions, for a fixed period of at most three years from the date of the contract (Art. 176(2)); contributions of industry (services) are not admitted (Art. 176(1)).
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diferimento de não mais de metade do valor das entradas
Own it
Who may own and run it
- Directors
- At least 1 · none need live there · individuals only
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1. A gerência da sociedade é exercida por uma ou mais
- Shareholders
- At least 1 · a company may be one
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um sócio único, pessoa singular ou coletiva, que é o titular
- Members
- At least 1 · one person may form it alone
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um sócio único, pessoa singular ou coletiva, que é o titular
- A local company secretary
- Not required
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1. A gerência da sociedade é exercida por uma ou mais
- A local registered agent
- Not required
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1. A sede da sociedade deve ser estabelecida em local
Each year, at the registry
- Annual registry fee
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Accounts on the public record
- Not stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Audit for a small company
- Not required
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devem designar um auditor certificado para proceder à
- Audit
- The contract may provide for a conselho fiscal (including a certified auditor) or a fiscal único who is a certified auditor (Art. 222(1)); a company with no supervisory body must appoint a certified auditor for the statutory audit when turnover exceeds 10,000,000 escudos and/or it employs more than ten workers (Art. 222(2)).
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devem designar um auditor certificado para proceder à
Important dates
When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.
Not in our records No dates for the Lda are in our records.
What is public
Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the Lda.
Tax
Tax on profit
How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.
Headline rate · 22.44%
The place’s headline corporate rate. Whether it varies for this type is not in our records.
- CFC rules in Cape Verde
- Not in our records
Close it
Closing it
The other end, which most guides leave out.
- Route
- Immediate dissolution by resolution of the members (Art. 141(1)(b)) or on the other grounds listed in Art. 141 and in the contract; the dissolved company enters liquidation at once (Art. 145(1)) and its dissolution is entered in the commercial register (Art. 144).
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b) Por deliberação dos sócios;
- Statutory fee
- Not in our records
Every business in Cape Verde
VAT
- Standard rate
- Not in our records
- Other rates
- Not stated
- Registration threshold
- Not in our records
- A foreign company
- See the note
Neither the tax directorate nor the Ministry of Finance served readable tax guidance, so no non-resident rule is recorded.
- Returns filed
- Monthly
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Entrega da Declaração Modelo 106 e respetivos anexos, pelos sujeitos passivos que tenham liquidado IVA no mês de dezembro de 2025, a submeter por via eletrónica através do portal www.portondinosilha.cv, até ao dia 31 de janeiro.
- Tax authority
- Registration page read 2026-10-25
Payment and banking services
None of the services whose lists we hold names Cape Verde. 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
- Sociedade por Quotas (Lda)
- Identifier
- CV-SOCIEDADE-POR-QUOTASA form ISO 20275 does not list.