How it works
Countries
Solutions
Developers
Hong Kong
Companies
Private company limited by sharesPublic company limited by sharesCompany limited by guaranteeUnlimited company with a share capitalForeign companies
Registered non-Hong Kong companyTrusts and societies
Registered trustees corporationRegistered or exempted societyRegistered co-operative societySingapore
Companies
Private company limited by sharesExempt private companyPublic company limited by sharesPublic company limited by guaranteeUnlimited companyPartnerships and sole traders
Limited liability partnershipLimited partnershipGeneral partnershipSole proprietorshipUnited Kingdom
Companies
Private company limited by sharesPrivate company limited by guaranteePrivate unlimited companyPublic limited companyCommunity interest companyPartnerships
Limited liability partnershipLimited partnershipScottish limited partnershipGeneral partnershipScottish qualifying partnershipForeign companies
UK establishment of an overseas companyOverseas entity on the Register of Overseas EntitiesCharities and societies
Charitable incorporated organisationScottish charitable incorporated organisationCharitable companyCo-operative or community benefit societyCayman Islands
Companies
Exempted companyExempted limited duration companySegregated portfolio company, including SPC-LDCSpecial economic zone companyOrdinary resident companyOrdinary non-resident companyLimited liability companyFoundation companyPartnerships
Exempted limited partnershipLimited partnershipLimited liability partnershipGeneral partnershipNot-for-profit and societies
Company designated under s.80Co-operative societyFriendly societyBuilding societyTrusts
Exempted trustBritish Virgin Islands
Companies
BVI business company limited by sharesCompany limited by guarantee not authorised to issue sharesCompany limited by guarantee authorised to issue sharesUnlimited company not authorised to issue sharesUnlimited company authorised to issue sharesSegregated portfolio companies
Segregated portfolio companyMutual fund segregated portfolio companyBVI insurer segregated portfolio companyPartnerships
Limited partnershipLimited partnership without legal personalityExisting limited partnership under the Partnership Act 1996General partnershipForeign companies
Foreign company registered to carry on business in the BVIUnited States
Corporations
C corporationS corporation electionPublic benefit corporationClose corporationProfessional corporationLimited liability companies
Single-member LLCMulti-member LLCSeries LLCProfessional LLCWyoming DAO LLCPublic benefit LLCL3CWyoming close LLCPartnerships
Limited partnershipLimited liability partnershipLLLPGeneral partnershipPublic benefit LPForeign companies
Foreign company's US branchSix jurisdictions, 109 entity types and 1,193 action types, with Entiva doing the filing.
Every count below is read from the data behind GET /v1/jurisdictions.
Hong Kong
206action types
13 entity types
24 are formation actions. The other 182 cover running, changing and closing a company.
Singapore
192action types
15 entity types
23 are formation actions. The other 169 cover running, changing and closing a company.
United Kingdom
213action types
20 entity types
26 are formation actions. The other 187 cover running, changing and closing a company.
Cayman Islands
204action types
19 entity types
41 are formation actions. The other 163 cover running, changing and closing a company.
British Virgin Islands
224action types
15 entity types
31 are formation actions. The other 193 cover running, changing and closing a company.
United States
154action types
27 entity types
38 are formation actions. The other 116 cover running, changing and closing a company.
Formation, ongoing compliance, governance, officers and people, ownership and capital, changes, restructuring and closure.
Companies House has offices in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Belfast.
Each state's and DC's Secretary of State or corporations division handles formation, annual reports and foreign qualification.
The same workflow your customers would get from Entiva.
Only the action type changes from one country to the next.
POST /v1/accounts. The owner receives the onboarding link, then you act for them with the Entiva-Account header.
GET /v1/jurisdictions/{jurisdiction} returns its entity types, signature rules, verification rules and lifecycles.
GET /v1/action-types filters by jurisdiction, entity type, stage or search text.
GET /v1/action-types/{type} returns its parameters, documents, people, signatures and fees.
POST /v1/formations. The founders instruct it, and each confirms in person.
POST /v1/entities/{entity_id}/actions. The type, such as hk.director.appoint, says which action to start.
POST /v1/entities/import needs the jurisdiction and the registration number of the company to move.
GET /v1/entities/{entity_id} returns the registration number, registered office and status, such as forming, active, dormant or dissolved.
GET /v1/entities/{entity_id}/deadlines lists each due date with the penalty for missing it.
GET /v1/entities/{entity_id}/registers/{register} reads the members, directors, secretaries, controllers, charges or beneficial owners register.
GET /v1/events lists everything delivered to your webhook endpoints in the last 30 days.
validate_only returns every requirement up front, without creating anything.
Set validate_only to true on POST /v1/formations or POST /v1/entities/{entity_id}/actions. Every requirement comes back and nothing is created.
Verify a person, upload a document, collect a signature, approve, pay a government fee or provide a parameter.
draft, requirements_pending, awaiting_approval, awaiting_signatures, in_preparation, submitted, completed. It can also end as rejected, cancelled or failed.
The caller must act for a person, such as a director, with an active authority covering the action type. Otherwise the API returns no_authority.
A contractual consent blocks the action until it is given, or until an owner waives it on the record.
A care-of address, a PO box or an address outside Hong Kong returns registered_office_invalid.
A company with no director ordinarily resident in Singapore returns resident_director_required.
Without the personal code from identity verification the appointment cannot be registered, and the API returns director_not_verified.
The customer confirms the operations declaration. Without it the API returns operations_declaration_required.
Give a maximum number of authorised shares, or set them as unlimited. Otherwise the API returns authorised_shares_missing.
Without an in-state registered agent who has accepted the role, the API returns registered_agent_required.
Some steps only the person can do, so Entiva gives them a hosted page for it.
POST /v1/account-links makes links to verify identity or sign, as well as to claim, onboard or update an account. Each expires ten minutes after creation.
POST /v1/people/{person_id}/verifications returns an existing verification at once if the person already holds a reusable one at that level.
identity, identity_address, enhanced and registry_idv. You can ask for a higher level, never a lower one.
Hosted page (the default), SDK, government eID, document upload or video call.
POST /v1/signature-requests/{sig_id}/send sends the link by email, SMS or in-app message, or returns sign_url for embedded signing.
It records who signed, how they were verified, when, from where and the document hash at each step.
They sign in their own Companies Registry e-Services account with a password, a digital certificate or iAM Smart.
Form 45 is a personal declaration. Singpass is the preferred way to sign it, and nobody else can sign for the director.
Verification has been mandatory since 18 November 2025, and the director's personal code goes on the incorporation filing.
The signature page is sent by courier, and the customer signs it before a witness who is physically present.
The consent to act is a personal act, signed electronically by the director.
It signs as incorporator in its own capacity. In Delaware the signature affirms the facts under penalty of perjury.
Government fees pass through at cost, and Entiva's own fee is stated separately.
Entiva's fee is free, included or fixed. Government fees are listed separately and marked at cost.
Any user with the approver role can approve it with POST /v1/actions/{action_id}/approve.
Business registration adds HK$2,350 for a one-year certificate in 2026/27.
This applies online, when the name needs no Companies Registry review.
A separate S$15 name application makes S$315 in total, or S$300 when a reservation already exists.
ACRA, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority, takes up to 15 working days for complex applications.
Same-day incorporation by software filing costs £156.
Same-day registration is available through software filing.
Fees rise with authorised capital, to CI$2,568 above CI$1,640,000.
Express service completes the same working day if everything reaches the Registry by 12 noon.
Above 50,000 authorised shares, or with unlimited shares, the fee is US$1,350.
Delaware expedite adds US$50 for 24-hour filing and US$100 for same-day filing.
Events go to your webhook endpoint, and every entity's deadlines can be read at any time.
POST /v1/webhook-endpoints takes your URL and the events to send.
action.created, quote_ready, requirements_changed, awaiting_approval, awaiting_signatures, submitted, completed and rejected.
verification.verified, failed, requires_input and needs_review.
Every verified person is screened again every day. An open sanctions alert pauses live actions that involve the person.
entity.status_changed fires when an entity's status changes, and deadline.upcoming warns before a deadline falls due.
In Hong Kong that is form NNC3 within 15 days, the first annual return and the business registration renewal.
The form is NAR1. Dormant companies are generally exempt.
The fee is S$60. The late penalty is S$300 within 3 months and S$600 after that.
It is due within 14 days after the end of each review period.
Filing by 31 January keeps the company in good standing. Penalties start on 1 April.
Companies incorporated from January to June pay by 31 May and those incorporated from July to December by 30 November, from the following year.
The report covers the prior calendar year.
One request forms a company in any of the six countries. Only the action type changes.
Every Entiva fee and every government fee for the standard company in each country, then the price of every company type.
$679one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $679
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
Electronic HK$1,545. Hard copy HK$1,720. Plus business registration fee and levy HK$2,350 or HK$6,170 for 2026/27, set by the date of submission; companies cannot claim the small-business exemption.
HK$3,440 plus HK$975 per person subject to the fit-and-proper test.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
HK$105 on time. Late: HK$870, HK$1,740, HK$2,610, HK$3,480; re-delivery is charged at its own date.
Certificates starting 1 Apr 2026 to 31 Mar 2027: 1-year HK$2,200 plus a HK$150 levy; 3-year HK$5,720 plus HK$450, HK$6,170 in total; branch 1-year HK$230, 3-year HK$658.
Tax is payable on assessment: corporations 8.25% on the first HK$2m and 16.5% above; unincorporated 7.5% and 15%.
Ad valorem: 0.1% of consideration or value on each of the bought and sold notes since 17 Nov 2023, plus HK$5 on the instrument; a gift is HK$5 plus 0.2%.
HK$295.
NDR1 HK$420 plus IR1263 HK$270; both non-refundable.
HK$11,250 deposit to the Official Receiver plus HK$1,045 court fee at the High Court Registry. A further HK$3,500 deposit applies if a provisional liquidator is sought, and the court may direct more (r.22A).
HK$240 notice plus HK$55 certificate of change of name.
$269one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $379
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
S$15 for every entity type, including VCCs.
S$300 registration, plus the separate S$15 name application.
Late registration risks a fine of up to S$10,000 plus a 10% penalty on GST due, with registration backdated.
S$15 name application plus S$100 registration for 1 year. The 3-year registration is S$160, so S$175 in total, if CPF Board conditions are met.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
S$60 per filing. Late filing adds S$300 or S$600, applied automatically by Bizfile.
No separate fee; covered by the S$60 annual return fee.
Tax at the flat 17% rate is payable on assessment.
Tax at the flat 17% rate is payable on assessment, within 1 month of the Notice of Assessment.
IRAS duty is 0.2% of the higher of price or value, rounded down, minimum S$1. Late: S$10 or the duty, S$25 or 4x duty after.
S$15 name application, non-refundable if rejected or withdrawn. Notice of resolution and entity-name update are S$0.
S$60 per filing. Late filing adds S$300 or S$600, applied automatically by Bizfile.
S$20 per filing.
S$20 per filing.
A lodgement fee of S$20 applies to notices of appointment of liquidators.
Add S$15 if a new name is reserved. The S$300 registration fee applies only if the amalgamated company is new.
S$400 amalgamation registration, plus S$300 to register the new company and S$15 for the name application.
$9one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $129
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
£100 software, £156 same-day, £124 paper.
The registration threshold is £90,000.
Tier 1 £52; tier 2 £78; tier 3 £3,763; £5 off by direct debit.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
£50 online or software, £110 paper.
CICs pay £15 for the CIC34 report, shown as a separate line in government_fees[].
Late filing penalties: 200 GBP at 1 day, another 200 GBP at 3 months, then 10% of unpaid tax at 6 and 12 months; 1,000 GBP each if late three times in a row.
Tier 1 £52; tier 2 £78; tier 3 £3,763; £5 off by direct debit.
0.5% of consideration rounded up to the nearest GBP 5 where it exceeds GBP 1,000; otherwise nil.
£20 online or software; £85 for same-day service; £30 on paper.
The Gazette 2026 price list: £96.55 plus VAT per corporate insolvency notice placed by webform, XML or template. A CVL normally needs two notices, about £193.10 plus VAT.
Gazette notice extra: £96.55 plus VAT via webform.
Court fee 3.8 on a notice of intention or appointment; court route fee 3.2 is £352.
$2,729one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $2,159
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
By period: 1 week CI$40; 1 month CI$60; 2 months CI$80; 3 months CI$120; 4 months CI$160.
Express filing CI$150 extra. Penalties: company CI$10 a day capped CI$500; LLC CI$200 a day capped CI$5,000; ELP CI$200 a day per GP.
By authorised capital: up to CI$42,000 CI$700; CI$42,001 to 820,000 CI$1,000; CI$820,001 to 1,640,000 CI$1,984; above CI$1,640,000 CI$2,568. Express service adds CI$500. Annual fee after registration CI$925 to 2,793.
No fee; the CI$100 officer-change notice is filed through the officer actions.
CI$4,125 registration and first annual fee plus CI$300 administrative fee and CI$750 per sub-fund. Offering document amendment CI$125.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
2027: CI$1,025, 1,325, 2,309, 2,893 above. 2026: 925, 1,225, 2,209, 2,793. Late filing adds 33.33%, 66.67% or 100%, by quarter.
CI$300 per mutual fund or sub-fund; private fund CI$300 plus CI$150 per AIV or sub-fund.
Express name change adds CI$150.
Express service adds CI$150.
Express adds CI$150.
January 2027 annual fees: exempted company or LDC CI$1,025 to 2,893 by capital band, SPC from 3,025, SEZC 925, non-resident 1,000 or 1,240, resident 300 or 500, LLC 1,200, ELP 1,400 regulated or 2,200.
Surrender fee CI$750; none for a sub-fund. Audit waiver CI$500.
Certificate of strike-off CI$150.
No fee; CI$100 on the child filing.
Express CI$150 each.
Pre-clearance CI$400 if requested. Express CI$500.
Express CI$500.
$1,479one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $2,799
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
Late penalties: initial US$300 first month or part, US$350 per further month up to 2 months, then US$400 per month up to 3; change US$300 per month up to US$3,600.
Late penalties: initial US$200 first month or part, US$250 per further month up to 2 months, then US$300 per month up to 3; change US$200 per month up to US$2,400.
Late filing: US$500 for the first month, US$550 per month for months 2-3, US$600 per month after that.
US$100 for organisations established on or after 1 January 2013; US$50 for those operating before.
Every entity required to be enrolled pays the US$185 annual BVIFARS fee by 1 June, which is a separate action.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
Late penalty: 10% of the fee if paid before 2 months after the due date, 50% after that.
A first determination carries US$5,000 to 20,000.
The US$185 annual BVIFARS fee is a separate action.
US$50 where gross annual income is up to US$250,000; US$100 above that.
Late filing: US$300 per month or part, up to US$3,600.
Late filing: US$300 per month or part, up to US$3,600.
Late filing costs US$200 per month or part, up to US$2,400.
Late filing costs US$200 per month, up to US$2,400.
The annual fee band changes accordingly: US$550 for up to 50,000 shares and.
Adding costs US$425.
Notice of appointment US$150. Regulated persons also pay US$100 FSC consent and US$200 for approval of the liquidator.
Failing to file or advertise carries an administrative penalty of up to US$10,000.
Completion statement US$100 plus certificate of dissolution US$100.
Within 12 months of dissolution: US$200 application plus US$500 for restoration and certificate, total US$700. After 12 months: US$400 plus US$1,200, total US$1,600.
Application within 12 months of dissolution: filing the order US$400 plus restoration and certificate US$2,000, US$2,400 in total. After 12 months: US$600 plus US$4,000, US$4,600 in total.
Follow-on child actions are quoted at cost: register of members change US$75, register of directors change US$50, beneficial ownership change US$75.
Raised from US$1,000 on 1 January 2023.
$189one-off
Steps marked only if needed are not counted.
From $299
Each extra is quoted before it starts, and nothing is done until you approve it.
Delaware $75 for a 120-day reservation.
DE expedite: 24-hour $50, same-day $100, 2-hour $500, 1-hour $1,000. WY $100.
Federal figure: no fee. $6,200 user fee only for a business-purpose tax year request.
Excludes steps marked only if needed.
$50 filing fee for non-exempt corporations, $25 for exempt. Late: $200 penalty plus 1.5% interest per month; charter void after 1 year unpaid or unfiled.
Authorised Shares Method: $175 up to 5,000 shares, $250 for 5,001-10,000, plus $85 per extra 10,000 shares or portion. Maximum $200,000; Large Corporate Filers fixed $250,000. Non-stock for-profit non-exempt: flat $175.
Greater of $60 or $0.0002 per dollar of WY assets. Nonprofits and cooperative marketing associations $25; statutory foundations $100; statutory trusts $100 annual tax. Over $500 must be filed by mail or courier.
Corporation minimum $150 list plus $500 licence, $650 in total. LLC $150 plus $200, $350 in total. Nonprofit list $50.
Delaware: corporation amendment or restated certificate $214; LLC $220; LP $200; statutory trust $500. Nevada $175. Wyoming $60.
Delaware: corporation $214; LLC $220; LP $200; statutory trust $500; foreign corporation name-change amendment $100. Wyoming $60. Nevada $175.
Delaware: $50 for corporations, LLCs, LPs and partnerships; expedite 24-hour $100, same-day $200. Wyoming $5. Nevada $60.
Delaware figure: foreign corporation qualification $245; foreign LLC $200; foreign LLP statement $300 per partner. WY $150.
$50 filing fee for non-exempt corporations, $25 for exempt. Late: $200 penalty plus 1.5% interest per month; charter void after 1 year unpaid or unfiled.
Authorised Shares Method: $175 up to 5,000 shares, $250 for 5,001-10,000, plus $85 per extra 10,000 shares or portion. Maximum $200,000; Large Corporate Filers fixed $250,000. Non-stock for-profit non-exempt: flat $175.
NV $100, NV nonprofit $50. WY $60, nonprofit $25.
Delaware foreign corporation withdrawal $175; foreign LLC, LP or partnership cancellation $200. NV foreign corporation $100, NV LLC cancellation $100. WY $60.
Delaware figure: corporation $259; LLC $220; LP $200; statutory trust $500; foreign corporation merger $50. WY $60.
Delaware figure: other entity into a DE corporation $184 plus Certificate of Incorporation. DE corporation to non-DE entity $234. Into or out of a DE LLC $220. LP $200; statutory trust $500.
Delaware figure: corporation $1,069. LLC $220; LP $200; statutory trust $500.
Delaware corporation revival $189 plus all back taxes, penalties and interest; LLC revival $220; LP $200; LLP/LLLP reinstatement $200; foreign corporation reinstatement $125.
Delaware $189 plus taxes.
Entiva fees are in US dollars. Government fees are in the currency each authority charges, passed through at cost when the filing is made. Taxes are separate.
We are onboarding a small group of founders and finance teams with entities in more than one country.