If a company does NOT pay the annual renewal fee, which includes the government fee and registered agent’s services, the Registrar sends the company an official notice informing that it must pay the fee within the prescribed period (normally, it is 30 days), otherwise the company will be struck off the Register.
Despite the fact that the company is struck off the Register of Companies, the company itself and its officers continue to be liable for their obligations and bear liability.
Moreover, from the moment of striking the company off the Register, directors, shareholders or other officers of the company have no right to:
A company may be restored by paying all annual fees and penalties. Only after 2 years, a company will be deemed liquidated.
In the case of restoration of a company, it is deemed that it has not been struck off the Register and its legal capacity has not been interrupted.
A company is deemed officially closed, and its obligations are terminated; it may only be restored in court. Upon liquidation, you will receive a certificate of liquidation of the company issued by the registration authority.
This procedure is only available to a company that meets the following requirements:
In order to prepare the documents you will have to provide us with a copy of the passport of the person who will act as the company’s liquidator, and you will have to tell us the amount of their remuneration.
MAY be an individual unless that individual is disqualified from acting as a voluntary liquidator of a company in accordance with the legislation.
MAY NOT be:
After the payment and above information have been received, we prepare a set of documents to be signed by the company’s directors, shareholders and liquidator.
In order to liquidate a company, financial statements and liquidation balance sheet also have to be prepared. The cost of this service is calculated individually depending on the nature of the company’s business, number of transactions, bookkeeping method, etc.
The company must terminate its activity by the beginning of liquidation.
USD 4 500 + compliance fee* – without liquidator’s services;
USD 5 800 + compliance fee* – including liquidator’s services.
The liquidation procedure comprises the following stages:
I. Signing and presenting to the registered agent prepared documents, in particular:
II. Publishing a notice in a newspaper
The liquidator will have to publish a notice (we will send you the text separately) of the company’s liquidation in a newspaper, so the maximum possible number of creditors can find this notice (normally, such notice is placed in a newspaper in the country of the company’s core business). The Registrar provides a list of newspapers for publishing.
III. The liquidator sends a notice of completion of liquidation
IV. Obtaining from the Register the certificate of the company’s liquidation
V. A notice of completion of the liquidation procedure is published on the Regulator’s website
The company is deemed liquidated from the time of issue of the certificate and may ONLY be restored by a court decision and if there is a strong reason.
USD 250 (standard fee – includes check of 1 individual)
+ USD 150 for each additional individual (director, shareholder or beneficiary) or legal entity (director or shareholder) if legal entity is serviced by GSL
+ USD 200 for each additional legal entity (director or shareholder) if legal entity is not serviced by GSL
+ USD 100 for signing documents
USD 350 (check for High Risk companies, including check of 1 individual)
+ USD 150 for each additional individual (director, shareholder or beneficiary) or legal entity (director or shareholder) if legal entity is serviced by GSL
+ USD 200 for each additional legal entity (director or shareholder) if legal entity is not serviced by GSL
+ USD 100 for signing documents