The Registro Mercantil and post-incorporation registrations
- Paperwork, visas and the investor's life
- Incorporating the company
- not audited
The Commercial Registry (Registro Mercantil) is defined as "the state entity responsible for carrying out the registration and certification of, and for providing legal certainty to, all commercial acts"; it registers domestic and foreign companies, sole traders and empresas mercantiles, and runs a virtual office at sedevirtual.registromercantil.gob.gt. After incorporation, the ICS 2024 lists the tax authority (SAT), the social security institute (IGSS) and the Ministry of Labor as mandatory registrations. Foreign companies not incorporated locally still cannot use the online window (ICS 2024). Where licenses from MARN, MAGA or the Ministry of Health apply, the ICS warns that they add considerable time.
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