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Your Complete Guide To Incorporate A Company in Peru

A Short Guide on How to Incorporate a Company in Peru and Increase Your Investment.

Peru is bursting with investment opportunities for the local and offshore company. The good news is that there’s flexibility to incorporate a company in Peru that you can take advantage. You’ll only need to follow several steps for you to incorporate a company in Peru. Some of these steps are straightforward that you only need to understand the local rules and regulations.

Incorporating a company in Peru may take you four to six weeks. This will depend on the type of shareholders used to set up the company. So, if you plan to have local shareholders, the process may be less challenging as compared to when you use foreign shareholders. The inclusion of foreign shareholders means that the process will take longer because of several documentations. Setting up a legal structure is one of the steps to incorporate a company in Peru. Peru has different legal structures namely: Joint Stock Company (S.A.), Closely Held Company (S.A.C.); Publicly Held Corporation (S.A.A.) and Limited Liability company (S.R.L.)

It’s no doubt that before you incorporate a company in Peru, you must have the name of the company. If you have a business name, the Registry of Legal Entities makes it available for you to carry out name searching and reserve the name.

 

Requirements for Company Registration in Peru

Company registering in Peru requires that you prepare an incorporation deed under the National Superintendence of Public Registries (SUNARP). The process can be done online through the notary. Some of the requirements to register in SUNARP are; Notary public documents, SUNARP forms, payment for the Right to Registration. You’ll be required to prepare the minutes of incorporation as an ingredient of the incorporation contract. Again, as an inspiring company owner, you’ll need to provide information relating to the owner(s), founders (if they any), reason of incorporation, kind of leadership positions, and statutes.

The moment you have your minutes of incorporation, it is necessary that it’s signed by a lawyer to validate the incorporation contract. Like any business, having a bank account is one of the key requirements. And so, you’ll be required to deposit the initial capital in a momentary bank account in a local financial institution.

Once you had your company name and done with the registration, your company will need to attain tax status. Now, how do you attain the status? When you incorporate a company in Peru, the tax authority grants you a Taxpayer Identification Number under the Superintendence of Tax Administration (SUNAT). As much as you’d want to run your company, your accounting records are very important. This, therefore, necessitates you to formalize statutory books as a legal requirement through the Ministry of Labour and Promotion of Employment. Several requirements such as Payroll book authorization, copy of RUC Certificate, application rights payment, the name of employer and the company address will be required for authorization. Each municipality grants company’s licenses that would granted Certificate of Safety carried out by the National Institute of Civil Defense, compliance certificate among others.

For more information and guidance on setting up a company in Peru, please contact China 3E Accounting Firm. We can provide assistance with registration related matters.