Register a company in Suriname

We do not promise that up front. The deed must be executed by or before a Surinamese notary, and the texts we work from do not say whether a founder may sign through a proxy. Two things help. Suriname is a party to the Apostille Convention, so papers from other member states travel with an apostille, and a new company registers for tax online. We agree the signing route with the notary first.

Registration starts from $2,900. Official notary and KKF fees and a legal address, if you need ours, are quoted separately. With an EMI or online bank account, from $4,800. Book 2 sets no minimum capital: each share is paid in at least at the nominal value you choose.

There is no official processing time we can quote for any step. What is fixed is the order: the notary registers the NV with the KKF as soon as possible after the deed, and the Belastingdienst's checklist asks for a recent KKF extract before the FIN. The published text of the Trade Register Act makes the first registration due within one week of starting business. Our own preparation time is confirmed in your quote.

Corporate income tax is a flat 36%, and we found no minimum tax in the Income Tax Act. Dividend tax is 25%. BTW is 10% at the general rate and 0% on exports; the Belastingdienst also lists 5% and 25% rates. Registration for BTW starts once turnover passes SRD 1,000,000 in a calendar year. If you see 46% quoted somewhere, that is the solidarity levy, which the Act's own text says lapsed on 1 January 2022; we recheck the current position before filing. For interest, royalties or fees paid abroad, we work out the treatment case by case.

No, and we would not sell it as one. At 36%, the corporate rate sits above Trinidad and Tobago's 30% and Colombia's 35%, though Guyana charges commercial companies 40%. In Suriname, dividends then carry 25% dividend tax on top. The case for a Surinamese NV is local: a contract, staff, customers or assets in the country. If your income comes from elsewhere, you will hear that from us at the consultation.

Pack 2, from $4,800, adds an account with an EMI or online bank, opened remotely, with the KYC file and compliance onboarding prepared by us. A local bank account is available on request and quoted separately. Plan for the currency as well. The SRD has floated since 7 June 2021, with the rate set by supply and demand, and supervised banks and exchange offices are the only authorised dealers for the public. Moving profits abroad is a question we answer for your specific case.

Book 2 names five legal persons: the foundation, the association, the cooperative, the mutual insurance society and the NV. The BV is not among them. The NV is the company with share capital. Since it takes one founder and no minimum capital, it also fits a small project. The published adaptation law repealed the old Commercial Code titles that held the NV rules, so guides written before May 2025 may describe a different regime.

We found no residence or nationality rule for directors in the Book 2 articles we have reviewed, and no foreign-ownership limit in the other official texts we read. The deed records the first directors and where they live. The Staatsblad text of the Trade Register Act adds that if no director is based in Suriname, the person running the business there day to day must also file with the KKF. We check your sector before filing.

The articles must name the place in Suriname where the company has its seat, and the Belastingdienst's checklist for an NV includes a copy of the lease. A legal address from us is quoted separately where you need one. We check that a given address arrangement meets the Belastingdienst's lease requirement before you rely on it.

Annual accounts and a board report within six months of the year-end, with records kept for ten years. A provisional income tax return is due by 15 April, the tax is paid in four instalments (15 April, 15 July, 15 October and 31 December), and the final return follows within six months of the year-end. BTW is filed monthly between the 1st and the 15th, wage tax by the seventh working day after month-end. The 2017 Annual Accounts Act allows Dutch or English. Large companies deposit their accounts with the trade register, and because the Act's size classes date from 2017, we look at where your company falls before the first accounts are due. The Trade Register Act also provides for an annual KKF fee, with the amount left to a state decree.