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Close Gibraltar company properly OR stop paying annual fees?
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Same answer as every other thread about abandoning vs. dissolving properly.
Dissolving properly has advantages, which may or may not matter to you, such as having a clean SOF/SOW for profits from the company and settlement of debts/liabilities. The only downside is you have to pay for it. If you're strapped for cash, that can feel like a frustrating cost.
You may run into issues forming companies in Gibraltar in the future and/or work with the same corporate service provider again. Aside from that, if the company is dormant and clean, no real harm.
Dissolving properly has advantages, which may or may not matter to you, such as having a clean SOF/SOW for profits from the company and settlement of debts/liabilities. The only downside is you have to pay for it. If you're strapped for cash, that can feel like a frustrating cost.
You may run into issues forming companies in Gibraltar in the future and/or work with the same corporate service provider again. Aside from that, if the company is dormant and clean, no real harm.
Sometimes the c.s. provider might agree to take over the company for resale at no cost, it’s worth asking instead of just disappearing.
The ones I spoke to want to have a fairly great control over the company including doing accounting etc. If you have many transactions, it may not be the best solution. Unless you want to live there too.
Also, the audit becomes mandatory fairly quickly.
That's why I am currently more inclined towards Singapore or Guernsey.
What does fairly quickly mean? Micro companies seem to be up until 600k GBP revenue
I think 1.5M GBP, which is less than what I am looking for. Another thing is that the balance sheet of a Gibraltar company is public. If you sell services, Gibraltar would actually be a good choice. I may even consider it for another use case.
Other providers would be
http://www.steadfast.gi/download.phphttp://aix.gi/https://tag.gi/https://www.abacus.gi/company-management-services
I was once in touch with Unlock Your Business Potential with Gibraltar Companies | Octopus they charge the following fees:
| Set up Fee | GBP |
| Incorporation | 550.00 |
| Registered Office & Secretary | 650.00 |
| Storage of certificate of incorporation | 10.00 |
| End of business relationship deposit | 100.00 |
| Company profile | 85.00 |
| Total Set Up Fee | 1,395.00 |
| Optional | |
| Certificate of Goodstanding | 185.00 |
| Set of company documents, notarised and apostilled | 205.00 |
| Courier | 70.00 |
| Assistance with opening an EMI account | 350.00 |
| Assistance with opening a bank account | 500.00 |
| Annual Fee | |
| Registered Office & Secretary | 650.00 |
| Compliance fee | 100.00 |
| Preparation and filing of annual return | 360.00 |
| Storage of certificate of incorporation | 10.00 |
| Tax return preparation and submission | 150.00 |
| Filing of accounts | To be selected |
| Transaction monitoring | To be selected |
| Minimum Annual Fee | 1,270.00 |
This question has come up many times before. My experience is that you can just stop responding to emails from your CSP and not care, let the company stand and at some point, it will be closed or deleted from the register. It works every time as long as you don't live in the same country. And of course, only with those kinds of low-cost offshore companies.
Their prices are good but they want to know even what you had for breakfast for half of your life to form a company, loads of documents, some which I don't find very relevant like who my clients are and their details (not sure why I have to tell them that) not sure if it's just them or Gibraltar in general but for Singapore document requirements were next to nothing.
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