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If you want the company to have a name, then the minimum cost is R175. That is the CIPC fee of R50 for reserving the name and R125 for registration of a company. If you don’t register a name, you’ll end up with a company called something like K2020/001234/07. That’s if you do the entire job yourself. The alternative is to engage a professional, such as ourselves. The fee is currently R610 and then you know that you are tapping into a professional support service that will carry you through all of the statutory obligations applicable to companies. These include…

It now only takes about a week or so to form a new company, so why buy one off the shelf? The main reason for buying a shelf company is its age. We have them aged as old as 2010 and never having traded. You may want an old registration number to give the impression that you’ve been in the business a long time, or you may want to back-date some kind of transaction, such as the company’s ownership by a trust and that clearly can’t happen before the company and trust were both registered. That’s…

You are starting a new business. Presumably you are serious about this and want the company to succeed. You see that FNB will register a company for free, or, whilst most websites offer companies for around R2 000 (with varying free extras), some websites offer them at ridiculouosly low prices. Hey! You might save yourself R1 000! Really? Here are some of the things that can go wrong… and probably will if you buy a cheap shelf company. Why you shouldn’t even consider registering a cheap shelf company online: The company gets registered with no name and ends up being…

Quick pick – Form a new company Shelf company VAT registered Non-profit company (NPC) For a professional practice (Inc) Public company (Ltd) Or read more – Ordinary (Pty) Ltd Companies If you can wait about two weeks, let us form a new company for you with the name of your choice. If you need a company urgently, then buy a shelf company and we will change the…

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