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Public limited company

Sociedad Anónima S.A.Panama

What it takes to form, own and run a public limited company in Panama, 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
Officialorganojudicial.gob.paRead 10 Oct 2026
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Los accionistas sólo son responsables con respecto a los acreedores de la compañía hasta la cantidad que adeuden a cuenta de sus acciones
Owners
Nominees allowed
Officialorganojudicial.gob.paRead 10 Oct 2026
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Dos o más personas mayores de edad, de cualquiera nacionalidad, aún cuando no estén domiciliadas en la República, podrán constituir una sociedad anónima para cualquier objeto lícito
Directors
At least 3
Officialorganojudicial.gob.paRead 10 Oct 2026
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El número de directores que no serán menos de tres con especificación de sus nombres y direcciones
Minimum capital
Not stated

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

Formation fee
Not in our records
Tax on profit
Officialdgi.mef.gob.paRead 10 Oct 2026
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2011 y siguientes 25%
Notary needed: YesResident director needed: NoFormed without visiting: Yes

Form it

Who registers it

Registry
Formed without visiting
Yes
Formed online
Not stated

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

What it takes to form

A notary
Required
A resident director
Not required
Paying up the capital
Shares may be issued fully or partly paid, or with no payment yet made; payment may be in money, labour, services or property of any kind (art. 21).
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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El pago puede ser en dinero, en trabajo, en servicios, o en bienes de cualquier clase.

Own it

Who may own and run it

Directors
At least 3
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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El número de directores que no serán menos de tres con especificación de sus nombres y direcciones
Shareholders
Nominees allowed
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
Quote
Dos o más personas mayores de edad, de cualquiera nacionalidad, aún cuando no estén domiciliadas en la República, podrán constituir una sociedad anónima para cualquier objeto lícito
Members
At least 2
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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Dos o más personas mayores de edad, de cualquiera nacionalidad, aún cuando no estén domiciliadas en la República, podrán constituir una sociedad anónima para cualquier objeto lícito
A local company secretary
Not required
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 16 Oct 2026
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La sociedad anónima tendrá un Presidente, un Secretario y un Tesorero que serán elegidos por la Junta Directiva
A local registered agent
Required
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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El domicilio de la sociedad y el nombre y domicilio de su agente en la República, que podrá ser una persona jurídica

Each year, at the registry

Annual registry fee
PAB 300
Official dgi.mef.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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Las sociedades deben pagar anualmente B/.300.00 de Tasa Única.
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
Not in our records

Important dates

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

Pay the annual Tasa Única
15 July

With Dirección General de Ingresos

Due 15 July for companies inscribed in the first half of the year; companies inscribed 1 July to 31 December pay before 15 January each year (the rule records the 15 July date).

Meeting of shareholders
Not in our records

With Held by the company

Not stated on organojudicial.gob.pa/uploads/wp_repo/blogs.dir/cendoj/CIVIL/ley_32_de_1927_sobre_sociedades_anonimas.pdf when checked

What is public

Directors
Public
Official cnbc.mef.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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Listado de directores, dignatarios, miembros, asociados y/o socios. Esta información es accesible al público sin costo alguno desde el portal de servicios telemáticos
Beneficial owners
To the authorities only
Official cnbc.mef.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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Listado de directores, dignatarios, miembros, asociados y/o socios. Esta información es accesible al público sin costo alguno desde el portal de servicios telemáticos

Tax

Tax on profit

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

Flat · 25%+1 regime

Legal persons pay income tax on net taxable income at the general rate: 25% for fiscal periods from 2011 (higher or special tariffs apply to named sectors, not read as applying to an ordinary company).

Official dgi.mef.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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2011 y siguientes 25%

Work it out on a profit figure: the company’s tax, the owner’s, and what is left.

Special regimes that may apply

Whether a company qualifies depends on its activity and conditions set in each statute.

CFC rules in Panama
Not in our records

Close it

Closing it

The other end, which most guides leave out.

Route
Dissolution proposed by the board and approved by the shareholders (or by the written consent of all voting shareholders), registered and published; the company then continues for three years only to wind up its affairs (arts. 80-85).
Official organojudicial.gob.pa read 10 Oct 2026
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continuará no obstante por el término de tres años desde esa fecha para los fines específicos de iniciar los procedimientos especiales que consideren convenientes
Statutory fee
Not in our records

Every business in Panama

VAT

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

Payment and banking services

None of the services whose lists we hold names Panama. Each provider, and what a listing means.

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
Public limited company
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Sociedad Anónima (S.A.)
ISO 20275 code
6TPA