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Sole trader

Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual)Macao

What it takes to form, own and run a sole trader in Macao, and how its profit is taxed. Each figure links to the page it was read from.

This company type

At a glance

Owners' liability
Unlimited: the owners answer with their own assets
Officialbo.dsaj.gov.moRead 15 Oct 2026
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Pelas dívidas do empresário comercial, pessoa singular, contraídas no exercício da sua empresa, respondem os bens que a compõem e, na sua falta ou insuficiência, os seus bens particulares.
Owners
Does not apply
Directors
Does not apply
Minimum capital
Does not apply
Formation fee
MOP 100
Officialgov.moRead 15 Oct 2026
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MOP 100,00.
Tax on profit
Through owners · 0–12%
Officialbo.dsaj.gov.moRead 15 Oct 2026
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As pessoas singulares ou colectivas sujeitas ao imposto complementar de rendimentos distribuem-se por um dos dois grupos: A ou B.
Notary 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
Does not apply
Paying up the capital
Not in our records

Own it

Who may own and run it

Not in our records Directors, Shareholders, Members, A local company secretary, A local registered agent: none of these is in our records for the Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual).

Each year, at the registry

Not in our records Annual registry fee, Accounts on the public record, Audit for a small company, Audit: none of these is in our records for the Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual).

Important dates

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

Not in our records No dates for the Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual) are in our records.

What is public

Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual).

Tax

Tax on profit

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

Through owners · 0–12%

Complementary Income Tax (Imposto Complementar de Rendimentos), Law 21/78/M: natural or legal persons earning profits from commercial or industrial activity are placed in Group A (audited actual profit) or Group B (presumed profit). For income of the 2025 tax year the exemption limit is MOP 600,000 and income above it is taxed at 12% (Law 13/2025); the limit is re-fixed each year by the budget law.

Official bo.dsaj.gov.mo read 15 Oct 2026
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As pessoas singulares ou colectivas sujeitas ao imposto complementar de rendimentos distribuem-se por um dos dois grupos: A ou B.
CFC rules in Macao
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 Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual).

Every business in Macao

VAT

Standard rate
Not in our records
The tax authority’s pages have not been read for Macao.

Payment and banking services

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

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
Sole trader
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Empresário comercial, pessoa singular (Empresário Individual)
Identifier
MO-EMPRESARIO-SINGULAR
A form ISO 20275 does not list.