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Company registration can take anything from about 5 days to about 5 weeks depending upon the type of company and the ability of the client to provide all of the necessary information and signatures. By far the simplest and quickest is a (Pty) Ltd. This is the one that normally takes about 5 days. If you are going this route, don’t reserve the name yourself. If you do, you’ll add a week or two to the process. Any other type of company can take 5 weeks or so, sometimes considerably longer. Here are some of the things that will slow…

So you are starting a business and can’t decide whether it should be a company or remain a sole proprietor. It really depends upon the nature of the business, who your customers or clients will be and your expectation of success. So let’s take a look at it. One-man goods or service provider to the general public. You don’t expect to do more than earn a decent living, so you want to keep things simple and keep the costs down. Also, the general public don’t usually care whether they are dealing with a company or an individual. As far as…

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…

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