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Private limited company

Société à responsabilité limitée SARLMorocco

What it takes to form, own and run a private limited company in Morocco, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.

This company type

At a glance

Owners' liability
Limited to what the owners put in
Officialompic.maRead 10 Oct 2026
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Les associés ne sont responsables qu’à concurrence de leurs apports;
Owners
At most 50 · a company may be one
Officialadala.justice.gov.maRead 14 Oct 2026
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Le nombre des associés d'une société à responsabilité limitée ne peut être supérieur à cinquante.
Directors
At least 1 · none need live there · individuals only
Officialadala.justice.gov.maRead 14 Oct 2026
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La société à responsabilité limitée est gérée par une ou plusieurs personnes physiques.
Minimum capital
None
Officialompic.maRead 10 Oct 2026
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Le montant du capital social est librement fixé par les associés
Formation fee
MAD 1,000
Officialompic.maRead 10 Oct 2026
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1% du capital avec un minimum de 1000 DH.
Tax on profit
Varies · 20–35%
Officialadala.justice.gov.maRead 14 Oct 2026
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« A.– 20% ;
Notary needed: NoResident director needed: NoFormed online: Yes

Form it

Who registers it

Registry
Formed without visiting
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Formed online
Yes

What it takes to form

A notary
Not required
A resident director
Not required
Paying up the capital
If capital exceeds 100,000 MAD, cash contributions must be paid up by at least a quarter; the bank blocking-of-funds step is dropped where capital does not exceed 100,000 MAD.
Official ompic.ma read 10 Oct 2026
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les parts représentant des apports en numéraires doivent être libérées d’au moins le quart de leur montant

Own it

Who may own and run it

Directors
At least 1 · none need live there · individuals only
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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La société à responsabilité limitée est gérée par une ou plusieurs personnes physiques.
Shareholders
At most 50 · a company may be one
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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Le nombre des associés d'une société à responsabilité limitée ne peut être supérieur à cinquante.
Members
At least 2 · at most 50
Official ompic.ma read 10 Oct 2026
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Le nombre maximum d’associés ne peut dépasser 50.
A local company secretary
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

A local registered agent
Not stated

The registry’s and the law’s own pages do not mention it.

Each year, at the registry

Annual registry fee
Not in our records
Accounts on the public record
Yes
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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les sociétés commerciales sont tenues de déposer au greffe du tribunal, dans les trentes jours qui suivent leur approbation par l'assemblée générale
Audit for a small company
Not required
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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sont tenues de désigner un commissaire aux comptes au moins, les sociétés à responsabilité limitée dont le chiffre d'affaires, à la clôture d'un exercice social, dépasse le montant de cinquante millions de dirhams, hors taxes.
Audit
Statutory auditor compulsory only where turnover at year-end exceeds 50,000,000 MAD excluding tax (Loi 5-96 art. 80); a partner or partners holding a quarter of the capital may ask the court for one.
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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sont tenues de désigner un commissaire aux comptes au moins, les sociétés à responsabilité limitée dont le chiffre d'affaires, à la clôture d'un exercice social, dépasse le montant de cinquante millions de dirhams, hors taxes.

Important dates

When each obligation falls due, as the authority states it.

Notice of the constitution in the Bulletin officiel and in a legal-notices newspaper, afte
30 days after incorporation

With Bulletin officiel and a journal d'annonces légales

Loi 5-96 art. 96 / Loi 17-95 art. 33: within a period not exceeding thirty days after registration. The OMPIC page puts it as 'within one month'. Art. 119 of Loi 5-96 makes statutory periods 'délais francs'.

Annual approval of the management report, inventory and accounts by the partners' meeting
6 months after the end of the accounting period

What is public

Directors
Public
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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Toute personne a le droit de prendre communication des pièces déposées au greffe du tribunal
Shareholders
Public
Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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Toute personne a le droit de prendre communication des pièces déposées au greffe du tribunal

Tax

Tax on profit

How this company type is taxed, which can differ from its place’s headline rate.

Varies · 20–35%

Corporate tax (impôt sur les sociétés): 20% of net profit; 35% where net profit is 100,000,000 MAD or more (Code général des impôts art. 19-I-A and B, as restated by Loi de finances 50-22 and left unchanged on those lines by Loi de finances 50-25); 40% for credit institutions and insurers. A SARL is a company with capital divided into parts sociales; the scope article of the code (art. 2) was not itself readable, only the rate article.

Official adala.justice.gov.ma read 14 Oct 2026
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« A.– 20% ;
CFC rules in Morocco
Not in our records

Close it

Closing it

The other end, which most guides leave out.

Not in our records Route, Statutory fee: none of these is in our records for the SARL.

Every business in Morocco

VAT

The tax
Value added tax (VAT)
Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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La taxe sur la valeur ajoutée qui est une taxe sur le chiffre d'affaires s'applique
Standard rate
20%

CGI 2026 art. 99: 20% normal rate (A); 10% (B) for listed supplies; the article was last restated by Loi de finances 55-23 for 2024. The 10% list read includes accommodation and restaurant services, banking and credit operations, edible oils, rice and solar panels.

Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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Le taux de la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée est fixé à 655 : A. - 20 % 656 ; B. - 10 %
Other rates
  • 10% Listed supplies (CGI art. 99-B), including accommodation and restaurant services, banking and credit operations, edible oils, rice and pasta, solar panels and water heaters
Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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Le taux de la taxe sur la valeur ajoutée est fixé à 655 : A. - 20 % 656 ; B. - 10 %
Registration threshold
MAD 2,000,000

Taxable turnover of the previous year, applies to retail traders (commercants) only (CGI art. 89-I-2-b). Not a general threshold: manufacturers, wholesalers, importers, installers and 'toute prestation de service' are taxable without one (art. 89-I-1, 2-a, 3, 5, 10-b).; year

Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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les commerçants dont le chiffre d'affaires taxable réalisé au cours de l'année précédente est égal ou supérieur à deux millions (2 000 000) de dirhams
A foreign company
Registers from its first taxable supply; needs a local tax representative

CGI art. 115: a person with no establishment in Morocco making taxable supplies to a customer established in Morocco must accredit a representative resident in Morocco; without one, the Moroccan customer declares and pays the tax (self-assessment, or withholding where the customer's activity is outside VAT). Art. 115 bis: a non-resident supplier of digital services to non-taxable Moroccan customers, with no representative, registers on the dedicated platform and files a quarterly return (before the end of the first month of each quarter) with payment and no right to deduct. Non-residents are on the monthly regime (art. 108-I).

Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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doit accréditer auprès de l’administration fiscale un représentant domicilié au Maroc
Returns filed
Depends on the business
Official tax.gov.ma read 25 Oct 2026
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les contribuables dont le chiffre d'affaires taxable réalisé au cours de l'année écoulée atteint ou dépasse un million (1.000.000) de dirhams
Tax authority
Direction Générale des Impôts (DGI), Ministry of Economy and Finance, Kingdom of Morocco

Payment and banking services

1 service names Morocco on its own list: Paysera. Each provider, and what a listing means.

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
Private limited company
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Société à responsabilité limitée (SARL)
Identifier
MA-SARL
A form ISO 20275 does not list.