Vanuatu

An International Company that keeps its business outside Vanuatu pays no income tax and no capital gains tax — the exemption is total. The only recurring cost to the state is a flat $300 annual registration fee paid to the Commission. That's the entire tax bill.

Vanuatu has signed no double taxation agreements — with a 0% rate there's nothing to relieve. It does participate in the OECD's Automatic Exchange of Information, so account data flows to your home tax authority. We tell you that upfront because planning around it beats pretending it isn't true.

No annual return, no audit, nothing filed. The company must keep its own accounts, records and minutes privately — a duty of good housekeeping, not of disclosure.

The footprint required is one line: a registered address in Vanuatu, which we provide. Directors and shareholders can live anywhere on earth, and a single person can hold both roles — the true one-man offshore company. We're on the ground locally for everything the company needs.

With documents ready on day one, incorporation can complete in as little as 48 hours — one of the fastest turnarounds in the offshore world.

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.

The entire formation runs remotely — no travel, ever. It works through a power of attorney: we draft the POA for the services you've chosen, you have it notarised (and apostilled where your country requires full legalisation), we double-check it, and you courier us the physical original. Vanuatu is a member of the Hague Apostille Convention, which keeps the legalisation to a single stamp.

The working checklist is short:

Passport scans of every shareholder, director and beneficial owner; the power of attorney for remote registration; and certified corporate documents if any shareholder is itself a foreign company.