Sociedade Anónima SACape Verde
What it takes to form, own and run a public 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
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
- Contributions of industry (services) are not admitted (Art. 238(1)); members may defer up to seventy per cent of the nominal value of shares subscribed for cash, for a fixed period of at most five years from the date of the contract (Art. 238(2)-(3)); cash paid in is deposited in a bank account in the company's name and the proof shown at registration (Art. 238(5)).
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1. Não são admitidas contribuições em indústria.
Own it
Who may own and run it
- Directors
- At least 1 · none need live there · a company may be one
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1. O conselho de administração é composto pelo número
- Shareholders
- At least 2 · a company may be one
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sociedades anónimas constituem-se com um número
- Members
- At least 2
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sociedades anónimas constituem-se com um número
- A local company secretary
- Not required
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A administração e a fiscalização da sociedade são
- 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 stated
The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.
- Audit
- Administration and supervision are structured as a board of directors (replaceable by a sole director where the law allows), a conselho fiscal (replaceable by a fiscal único where the law allows) and, in large companies, a certified auditor outside the conselho fiscal (Art. 239).
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c) Auditor certificado, que não faça parte do conselho
Important dates
When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.
Not in our records No dates for the SA are in our records.
What is public
Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the SA.
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
- Public limited companyDerived our grouping, the same words in every country
- Name in law
- Sociedade Anónima (SA)
- Identifier
- CV-SOCIEDADE-ANONIMAA form ISO 20275 does not list.