Register a company in Chad

Our team can file for you at ANIE's physical one-stop shop (remote filing, $500); the online platform is not live yet. ANIE's published document list says nothing about filing through a representative, so we confirm the power of attorney with the one-stop shop before you sign it. Chad is not party to the Apostille Convention, so an apostille does not cover papers used there; we check the legalisation route for the country they come from.

Registration starts from $2,500. The legal address (from $600 a year) and remote filing (from $500) are billed separately, and the duty for registering the statutes is paid to the tax office on top. With an EMI or online bank account, from $4,400. A Chadian company needs BEAC authorisation for a foreign-currency account outside CEMAC, so we check that route with you before opening; a local bank account is the alternative, from $3,900.

ANIE says the SARL has no minimum capital. The OHADA Uniform Act sets XAF 1,000,000 unless national law says otherwise, and we have not found a Chadian text that changes it. We confirm the figure the registry applies before you deposit anything. Whatever the amount, it goes into a bank first, because ANIE's file includes the bank's deposit certificate.

Profit is taxed at 35%, and a minimum tax of 1.5% of turnover applies even in a loss year. VAT runs at 18% (9% on listed local products, 0% on exports). For dividends the withholding is 20%; for payments to providers outside CEMAC, 25%. Salaries are taxed at up to 30%, and the employer adds 16.5% social security on each salary up to XAF 500,000 a month (at most XAF 82,500 per employee). Corporate returns are due by 30 April. All of these are PwC's figures, last reviewed in August 2024, and we recheck them against the current finance law before filing.

ANIE's target is 72 hours for a complete file. Completing the file takes longer: legalised documents, the BEAC declaration at least 30 days before a foreign investment is made, the bank deposit certificate and the registered statutes. After registration, the EMI account takes 2-3 weeks. Once we know which country your documents come from, we give you a dated plan.

Under CEMAC exchange rules (Regulation 02/18), a Chadian company is a resident. It may not open a foreign-currency account outside CEMAC unless the BEAC authorises it, and a foreign-currency account inside CEMAC needs BEAC authorisation too. We check the EMI route with you before opening anything; a local bank account (from $3,900) is the alternative. Day to day, current payments abroad are free once the origin of the funds is shown, and imports of XAF 5 million or more are domiciled with a bank.

If a non-resident takes 10% or more of the company, yes. Article 118 of CEMAC Regulation 02/18 says foreign direct investments are declared to the BEAC and to the ministry in charge of money and credit at least 30 days before they are made. The rule sets no minimum amount. In our plans the declaration comes first, at least 30 days before the capital goes in.

Yes. ANIE's file needs proof of the registered office - a lease or title deed - and a location plan of the premises. Our legal address is from $600 a year, billed separately, and before you take it we confirm it comes with the lease ANIE expects.

Tax returns go in online: monthly returns, including the minimum tax under the normal and simplified regimes, then the annual corporate return by 30 April (an exceptional extension to 15 May can be requested). Late returns cost 5% a month on each tax. Accounts follow SYSCOHADA, and only a CEMAC chartered accountant may validate them. Business licence tax, 0.35% of turnover from two years earlier, is due by 31 December; companies under the real regime are exempt in their first year.

No, and we say so in the first call. Corporate tax is 35% with a turnover minimum, and Chad's only tax treaty is the CEMAC treaty. A Chadian SARL is worth its cost when the contracts or the customers are in Chad. For a regional structure, look at the comparison above first.