Register a company in Jordan, the steady Levant.

Yes - incorporation, tax files and zone applications run by power of attorney with legalised documents. Banks prefer one meeting with the manager; Aqaba negotiations benefit from presence. We sequence a single trip around those.

Turnkey registration starts from $2,900; with banking from $4,900. ASEZ and development-zone statuses are scoped per project. Renewals with accounting run from $1,800 a year.

In most activities, yes - the 2022 investment law entrenched equal treatment, and services, industry, IT and tourism take wholly foreign LLCs routinely. A negative list, trimmed with each reform round, still caps foreign shares at 50% in a few commercial and service niches. We screen your exact activity against the current list before structuring - the screening hour that prevents expensive surprises.

Corporate tax at 20% plus the national contribution of 1-7% by sector - most companies land at 21-22% all-in, banks higher - GST at 16%, payroll social security around 21.75% combined. Then the pleasant part: dividends leave at zero, to anyone, anywhere. Aqaba's 5% rewrites the arithmetic for zone activities entirely.

The ASEZ wraps the port city in its own regime: 5% income tax on most registered activities, duty-free imports into the zone, streamlined licensing under ASEZA, and a Red Sea port with Suez-adjacent logistics. Industry, logistics, tourism and services all register. For manufacturing and trade models, it is Jordan's strongest single offer - and a genuine application, not a stamp.

Duty-free access to the American market for qualifying Jordanian production - the agreement that built the garment-export industry and still serves manufacturers who meet rules of origin. Stacked with EU association and the Arab free-trade area, Jordan's treaty reach far exceeds its size; export models are built on exactly this arbitrage.

Decades of educational investment produced an engineering and medical bench the Gulf actively recruits from - and that stays affordable at home. The startup scene that produced regional exits seeds experienced product people; English is professional-standard; time zones bridge Europe and the Gulf. For dev centres and outsourcing, Amman competes on quality rather than just cost.

Structural and priced: Jordan is among the world's most water-scarce countries - industrial models with heavy water use need engineered solutions and careful siting - and energy is imported, though solar now supplies a growing share and industrial tariffs have stabilised. Services and light industry barely notice; heavy industry must plan. We model utilities into every physical project.

Cyclically and at the edges: tourism dips with each regional crisis and recovers after; investment sentiment breathes with the neighbourhood; and the kingdom itself has stayed composed through every storm for decades - the stability premium is real and earned. Planning treats regional cycles as weather, not climate.

The company: one to three weeks. Banking: one to three more. ASEZ or development-zone status: two to eight weeks by project. A working, banked Jordanian operation inside six weeks is the standing default.