We help you incorporate a Limited Liability Company in Belize

No. Nothing in forming a Belize LLC has to be signed in Belize, and no member or manager needs to travel there. We collect the identity papers from everyone behind the company by email, prepare the articles of organization and the operating agreement, and manage the filing on your behalf. Once the company exists, the corporate kit is sent by express courier to any address in the world.

Everything a Belize LLC needs to exist and to run for its first year. The government fee is inside the price, with the registered agent and registered office for year one, the articles of organization, an operating agreement drafted for you, the registers of members, managers and beneficial owners, membership interest papers and the digital Certificate of Formation. Basic is US$999 and Premium US$1,749. Premium adds the physical original, a company seal, incumbency and good standing papers, and full authentication for use abroad.

Yes, in two ways. Every package includes free account opening with Airwallex, a multi-currency business account built for international payments. Beyond that, our team advises on which banks and payment platforms are open to a Belize LLC, prepares the application and the supporting papers, and stays with you through the bank's questions. The decision rests with the bank, so an account is not something we can promise.

Little more than answers. A Belize LLC carries twelve duties, from keeping a registered agent and an address in Belize to the yearly government fee, the business tax return and the economic substance declaration. Eleven of the twelve sit inside your annual engagement with us, from US$799 a year. The twelfth is the LLC's own accounting records, which must be kept in Belize for five years. We ask the members for the figures behind the return, and for a word when something changes.

Both. Moving a Belize LLC to us is a change of registered agent, at US$350, followed by US$799 a year for the compliance package. The company keeps its name, its number and its history, and nothing about the entity itself changes. If the members would rather close it, we advise on the steps, prepare the resolutions and the closing paperwork, settle any outstanding filings and manage the wind-up on your behalf until the company is removed from the record.

No. Belize law requires every limited liability company to hold a registered agent in the country, and the articles of organization are executed and delivered by that agent, so there is no route the members can take alone. What we add saves time and mistakes: advice on whether an LLC fits and what the agreement should say, preparation of the papers, management of the process on your behalf, and a team that stays on afterwards. We are an independent corporate services provider, not a government body.

No. Expanship is a privately owned company. We are not a government agency, department, registry or regulator, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the Government of Belize, the Belize Financial Services Commission, or the Belize Companies and Corporate Affairs Registry. We advise you, prepare and coordinate your paperwork, and handle the incorporation on your behalf. Whether a company is approved, and when, is decided by those authorities alone.

Our own work: advice on the right structure, due diligence on every member, preparing and coordinating the incorporation paperwork, handling the incorporation on your behalf, and the first year of registered agent and registered office. The government fees are set by the Belize authorities, not by us, and are passed on at cost inside the package price.

One member is enough, and there is no maximum. A manager is optional. By default the members run the LLC themselves, or they may hand the running of it to one or more managers under the operating agreement, and a manager may also be a member. Members and managers may live in any country and hold any nationality. Since the 2023 amendment there is no residency test on a Belize LLC, and no meeting has to be held in Belize.

Yes. A member of a Belize LLC may be a person or a corporate body from any country, and the same applies to a manager. Trusts, partnerships and holding companies are all found among members, which is what makes the form useful in family and group structures. Whoever sits in the seat, the people who ultimately own or control ten percent or more are identified before formation, and their details are held by the registered agent in Belize rather than on a public search.

There is no share capital to authorise and no minimum to put in. A member contributes cash or property, in any currency, and the operating agreement records what each one contributed and the interest it buys, expressed as percentages or units. Par value does not apply. Profits are split the way the agreement says rather than by a fixed rule, so one member can fund the LLC while another runs it, with the money returned first. Each contribution is tracked in its own capital account.

No secretary and no premises. Belize law asks a limited liability company for no company secretary and no director, and the only address it must have is the registered office in Belize, where the registers and accounting records are kept. That office comes with the registered agent, and both are included in every package, so the members lease nothing and staff nothing. Meetings can be held anywhere, including by call. A secretary can still be appointed if a bank asks for one.

Mainly in who owns it and how it is run. A Belize IBC, now called a Business Company, has shareholders holding shares and directors sitting on a board. An LLC has members holding membership interests, and managers only if the members want them. Its constitution is the articles of organization plus a private operating agreement that can carry any rule not contrary to law. It has no shares to register and no yearly return to certify, and Belize looks through it for tax.