We help you incorporate an Authorised Company in Mauritius

No. Nothing about a Mauritius AC has to be signed on the island. The constitution is signed by the applicant wherever they are, the incorporation and authorisation applications go through the management company that comes with your package, and the corporate kit is couriered to any address worldwide. Staying away is also the point: the place of effective management has to sit outside Mauritius, so the board should meet and decide elsewhere from the very first day.

The Basic package at US$2,849 covers both the incorporation and the authorisation, with the government fees for each inside the price. It also carries name checks and reservation, the application forms and a standard constitution, the registered agent and registered office in Mauritius for year one, the statutory registers, your digital Certificate of Incorporation, the corporate kit by courier and Airwallex account opening assistance. Premium at US$3,799 adds the company seal, the original paper set and authenticated copies. Nothing essential is sold on top.

Yes. Every package includes assistance with opening an Airwallex multi-currency account, so the company can invoice and pay abroad from the start. For a traditional bank, we advise on which banks in Mauritius and elsewhere are open to an Authorised Company doing your kind of business, prepare the application with you and coordinate each step until the bank has what it needs. The decision on any account rests with the bank alone, and we tell you that before an application goes in.

Four, going to three different bodies: an annual fee to the authorities in July, an annual registration fee by 20 January, a short unaudited financial summary six months after year end, and a return of income by the same date, filed even though the company is non-resident. No annual return and no audit. Fourteen duties follow a Mauritius AC, and our annual engagement at US$2,699 a year from year two carries twelve. Your two are keeping the accounting records for seven years and keeping the management outside Mauritius.

Yes. An Authorised Company you already own can change its registered agent to the one that comes with our package for US$350, then US$2,699 a year for the annual engagement. It keeps its name, its number and its history, and nothing about the entity changes. If the company has run its course, we prepare the resolutions, coordinate the settlement of what is outstanding and manage the winding up with the authorities in Mauritius on your behalf, quoted once we have seen the company's position.

No. Mauritius law requires the authorisation application to go through a management company, and the company must keep a management company as its registered agent at all times, so there is no form you send in yourself. What we add is the part that matters: advice on whether an AC or a Global Business Company fits your plan, preparation of the constitution, management of the whole process on your behalf, and a team that stays with the company 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 Mauritius, the Financial Services Commission (Mauritius), or the Corporate and Business Registration Department. 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 Mauritius authorities, not by us, and are passed on at cost inside the package price.

One director and one shareholder, and one person may be both. Neither has to live in Mauritius, and the 50 shareholder cap that applies to an ordinary private company does not apply here. Two conditions matter more than residence. The majority of the shares, the voting rights or the beneficial interest must sit with people who are not citizens of Mauritius, and the directors should meet and decide outside the island, because the place of effective management has to stay off it.

Yes to both. A corporate director is allowed, which is the opposite of what a Global Business Company is asked for, and a company may hold the shares. Whatever sits in between, the people who ultimately own or control the AC are identified before formation, looked through every holding company until a person is reached. A declaration of them goes in with the incorporation application, the company keeps a separate register of them, and the record is open to the authorities in Mauritius but not to the public.

Wide. Mauritius sets no minimum capital for an Authorised Company and no minimum to subscribe. Stated capital may be expressed in any currency rather than in rupees, and in more than one, shares may carry a par value or none, and more than one class is allowed. Two rules are fixed: every share must be fully paid when it is issued, and bearer shares are not allowed, since every share in a Mauritius company carries a named holder.

No secretary. The company secretary rules do not reach an Authorised Company, so there is nothing to appoint and no resident secretary to find. The directors may still give someone a title such as president or treasurer by resolution. An office, yes, but not one you rent. Mauritius law requires a registered office on the island for notices and service of proceedings, and it is the registered agent's own address, included in every package. Your own premises and staff are not required.

Where it is run from. A Global Business Company is managed and controlled from Mauritius, with resident directors, so it is tax resident there, pays Mauritius tax and can use the double tax treaties. An Authorised Company is the mirror image: its majority owners are not citizens of Mauritius, its effective management sits outside the island, it is treated as non-resident, pays nothing on foreign income and reaches no treaty. In return it files a short financial summary rather than audited accounts.