Company formation in Jersey

A Jersey company takes about 4 weeks to set up — more where the legal architecture is complex. This is a jurisdiction that reads files properly; the timeline is the price of the reputation.

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

1. Orientation session 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.

Fully remote with notarised documents: we draft the POA for your chosen services, you certify it (apostilled where your country requires full legalisation), we verify, you courier the physical original. As a British Crown dependency, Jersey 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 every individual involved, including the beneficial owner; the power of attorney for remote registration; and certified corporate documents where a shareholder is itself a foreign company.

The standard corporate income tax rate is 0% — for resident and non-resident companies alike. Now the "but", stated plainly because your accountant will find it anyway: financial services companies pay 10%, utilities pay 20%, large corporate retailers pay up to 20% depending on profits, and income from Jersey property or its development is taxed at 20%. Dividends and distributions are taxable in the shareholder's own hands, wherever those hands reside. For a normal trading or holding company, zero means zero.

Full agreements with Cyprus, Estonia, Guernsey, Hong Kong, the Isle of Man, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mauritius, Qatar, Rwanda, Seychelles, Singapore, the UAE and the United Kingdom.

Partial agreements with Australia, Denmark, the Faroes, Finland, France (plus a tax information exchange agreement), Germany, Greenland, Iceland, New Zealand, Norway, Poland and Sweden. A curated network rather than a sprawling one — and often exactly the right doors.

Annual corporate tax returns are compulsory — filed online only, paper having been retired. Real compliance exists here; it's precisely why the flag opens doors that pure zero-filing jurisdictions can't. Our team handles the returns as part of ongoing support.

A Jersey company must keep a registered physical office on the island — PO boxes don't qualify. The beneficial owner needn't be resident, but here's the sentence most providers whisper and we print: the beneficial owner's identity is disclosed to the registries even when nominee directors and shareholders are used. Jersey sells legitimacy, not invisibility — if invisibility is the requirement, we'll steer you to a different flag before you spend a cent.