Starting a New Business or Company
We incorporate your company with ACRA, advise on the right structure before you commit, and set up the compliance foundations most founders discover too late. Registration itself takes a day or two. Getting the structure right is what you will thank yourself for in year three.
Most trading businesses choose a private limited company: liability is contained, ownership can change without disturbing the business, and investors and banks understand it. An LLP suits professional partnerships that want partnership tax treatment with limited liability. Sole proprietorships are cheap to start but leave the owner personally exposed, which is why we rarely recommend them beyond genuine one-person side ventures. Foreigners can own a Singapore company outright but need at least one Singapore-resident director; we advise on how that is typically solved before any paperwork starts.
In practice
Two co-founders arrived with a company name and a handshake. A day later the company existed; a week later the constitution, bank account and first resolutions were done and the pair were back at the business they actually wanted to build.
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With documents in order, a standard Pte Ltd is usually registered within one to two working days. Name approval is often same-day unless the name requires referral to a relevant authority for further approval.
Identification for directors and shareholders, the intended business activity, a registered address and the share structure. We guide you through each item in one short call.
Yes, with at least one Singapore-resident director. We advise on nominee arrangements and the work pass routes that let a founder eventually take the director role themselves.
A corporate secretary within six months, a registered office, statutory registers from day one, and a financial year end that sets your filing calendar. Our first-year calendar lays all of it out.
No, but you need a registered address that can receive official mail. A home address or a registered-office service both work; we help you weigh them.
The ACRA fees are fixed and modest; the real variable is what surrounds them. We quote one package price covering registration, constitution, first resolutions and the secretary appointment, so there is no drip pricing.
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