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There are four steps to obtaining your first letter of good standing from COID. First, your company has to register with SARS as an employer. Next, your company has to register with COID as an employer. You’ll have to disclose its PAYE reference number, the type of work it does, the machinery used, the number of employees and their anticipated total annual salaries. The registration can now be done on line. Once your registration has been processed, you will receive an invoice for the first fees. You must pay this invoice. When your payment has been processed, you can go…

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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…

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