Register a company in Monaco, the zero that never advertised.

The dossier and much of the process run remotely, but Monaco is a relationship jurisdiction: the government may wish to meet founders, and banks almost always do. Plan one or two visits, typically combined with the residency file that most clients run in parallel.

From €6,900 for the authorisation and company, from €12,000 with principality banking, renewals from €5,000 a year - before premises, which are the world's most expensive per square metre. Monaco prices participation, not paperwork. If the budget argues, we'll name Andorra or Dubai instead.

For residents, none since 1869: no income tax, no capital-gains tax, no wealth tax, and direct-line inheritance at zero. The one carve-out: French nationals remain taxable in France by bilateral treaty. The policy has survived every European tax wave for 150 years; stability is the product.

Geography decides: if more than 25% of turnover arises outside Monaco, profits pay 25% under French-style rules, softened by real deductions - notably director remuneration, which flows untaxed to a resident owner. Purely principality-focused business pays no corporate tax at all. We model the split before you commit.

Real, and that is the point. The economic-development department reviews founders' backgrounds, the business plan, financing and the venture's benefit to Monaco, over one to three months, and refuses files it dislikes. Our pre-qualification tells you before anything is filed whether yours will pass; then we build the dossier to the standard the department expects.

SARL (€15,000): the working company for services and trade. SAM (€150,000, two directors): the prestige form for finance, larger ventures and anything wanting the anonyme name. SCI: the civil vehicle for holding principality real estate with clean succession. Most operating clients start SARL; the file tells us if yours shouldn't.

Naturally - it is usually the same project: an apartment (bought or leased), a principality bank relationship of substance, clean records, and the carte de séjour follows. The company gives economic purpose; the residency delivers the 0% personal regime. We run both files as one calendar.

Private-banking expectations, stated as they are: CMB, CFM and the resident houses want to understand the person, the wealth and its source, and typically expect relationships in the seven figures. A prepared file opens serious doors; an unprepared one wastes a famous address. We build to their standard before the first meeting.

Dubai offers 0% personal at scale with a 9% corporate rate and a different pace of life. Andorra delivers a 10% world at a fraction of the cost. Monaco offers the original: 150 years of fiscal stability, European legal comfort, and an address that is itself a credential. Budget-led cases go elsewhere - and we say so; the rest come here.

Plan two to four months end to end: weeks to build the dossier, one to three months of government review, then incorporation, registry and banking in a few weeks more. Residency runs on a parallel calendar. Monaco cannot be rushed; it can only be prepared properly, which is the entire service.