Gibraltar

The path from first call to live company, in order:

1. Initial consultation and engagement — 2. Settlement of the invoice — 3. For remote setups, notarisation of the power of attorney on your side — 4. We prepare the registration documents — 5. Signing before the notary — 6. The company is valid on the register immediately.

5–10 working days covers the registration — a modern registry moving at a modern pace, with our team driving the file so nothing snags.

Fully remote on a notarised power of attorney: we draft it for your chosen services, you certify it (apostilled where your country demands full legalisation), we verify, and you courier us the physical original. As British territory, Gibraltar sits inside the Hague Apostille Convention — one stamp, recognised worldwide.

Three things get the file moving: three name options for the company plus a contact email; the names, addresses and emails of all shareholders and board members; and a short description of the activity. That's the whole intake form.

Passport scans of all shareholders and board members, plus the beneficial owner where applicable; the power of attorney for remote registration; and certified corporate documents where a shareholder is itself a foreign company.

Gibraltar taxes only what it can see: corporate income tax — a headline rate of 15% since mid-2024 — applies solely to income sourced within Gibraltar. Everything the company earns outside the Rock is exempt, full stop. And the sweeteners hold: no capital gains tax, no withholding tax on dividends. For an international business, the effective arithmetic is what the territorial system has always promised — zero on foreign profit.

Gibraltar runs without a double-tax-treaty network. What it has instead: tax information exchange agreements with some 27 states — the USA, the UK, Germany, France, Italy, the Nordics, India, Mexico and more — plus participation in the OECD's Automatic Exchange of Information. Translation: no treaty relief, but full modern transparency. Right for structures that don't need treaties; wrong for those that do — we'll tell you which one yours is.

Books are kept, and tax returns with financial statements go to the Income Tax Office yearly — within 9 months of the financial year's end. Audit becomes mandatory once turnover passes £500,000. Real obligations in a real jurisdiction; our accounting package carries them so you never feel the deadline.

No residency requirements for directors or shareholders — the whole cast can live anywhere. The company itself needs a registered address in Gibraltar and a resident company secretary, both of which we provide as a team that actually works the local registry and knows its habits.