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Partnership (general partnership)British Virgin Islands

What it takes to form, own and run a general partnership in British Virgin Islands, 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
Officialbvifsc.vgRead 10 Oct 2026
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Every partner in a firm is liable jointly with the other partners for all debts
Owners
Does not apply
Directors
Does not apply
Minimum capital
None
Officiallaws.gov.vgRead 25 Oct 2026
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Partnership is the relation of which subsists between persons carrying on a business in common with a view of profit.
Formation fee
Not stated

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

Tax on profit
Not in our records
Notary needed: No

Form it

Who registers it

Not in our records Registry, Formed without visiting, Formed online: none of these is in our records for the Partnership (general partnership).

What it takes to form

A notary
Not required
A resident director
Does not apply
Paying up the capital
No paid-up rule: a partnership exists as a relation between persons carrying on a business (s.3(1)); unless the partners agree otherwise they share capital and profits equally (s.26(a)).
Official laws.gov.vg read 25 Oct 2026
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all the partners are entitled to share equally in the capital and profits of the business and shall contribute equally towards the losses

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 Partnership (general partnership).

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 Partnership (general partnership).

Important dates

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

Not in our records No dates for the Partnership (general partnership) are in our records.

What is public

Not in our records What the register shows the public is not in our records for the Partnership (general partnership).

Tax

Tax on profit

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

Not in our records

How this type is taxed is not in our records. A partnership or sole trader is often taxed through its owners; incp.pro does not assume it.

CFC rules in British Virgin Islands
Not in our records

Close it

Closing it

The other end, which most guides leave out.

Route
Dissolution by expiry of a fixed term, termination of a single undertaking, or, for an undefined time, notice by any partner to the others (Partnership Act s.34), subject to any agreement between the partners.
Official bvifsc.vg read 10 Oct 2026
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by any partner giving notice to the other or others of his or her intention to dissolve the
Statutory fee
Not in our records

Every business in British Virgin Islands

VAT

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

Payment and banking services

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

Reference

Its name and code

Kind
General partnership
Derived our grouping, the same words in every country
Name in law
Partnership (general partnership)
ISO 20275 code
1GR6