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No. You review the full invoice on the payment screen, and nothing is charged until you confirm it there. The $4,685 shown here is the one-time formation total. Anything you selected on an annual cycle, such as the legal representative or the legal address, is billed separately on its own yearly renewal and is not part of that one-time figure. All prices exclude Argentina's 21% VAT, which is charged on top.

Argentina is a two-registration structure. Your existing foreign company is registered in Argentina first, then a wholly owned S.A.S. subsidiary is incorporated, then the shares are transferred to the foreign parent. The $4,685 covers all five mandatory pieces of that: registration of the foreign holding company, incorporation of the S.A.S. including a CDI tax ID for foreign persons, government registration and notary fees, the share purchase agreement with its board and shareholder resolutions, and certified Spanish translation of your apostilled documents. It runs as four stages end to end.

Yes. Government registration fees and the notary fees for the incorporation procedure are a line item inside the base price, so you do not pay the registry or the notary separately. The certified Spanish translation of your foreign documents is inside the base price too, billed at $0.10 per word with $1,000 as the typical total. Argentina's 21% VAT on service fees is the one charge added on top.

Argentina levies 21% VAT on professional service fees, and it applies to every figure shown here, so your invoice total is higher than the fees themselves. We show pre-VAT fees so the service cost is clear rather than buried. The five formation items are one-time and make up the $4,685. The legal representative at $20,000 per year and the legal address at $1,500 per year are annual services that renew each year, so treat them as recurring, not as part of the one-time total.

The $4,685 covers the five mandatory formation items: foreign holding company registration ($2,500), S.A.S. incorporation ($375), government registration and notary fees ($310), the share transfer agreement ($500), and certified Spanish translation ($1,000 typical, billed per word). The two paid add-ons are the local legal representative at $20,000 per year and the registered legal address at $1,500 per year, each needed only if you do not already have your own. Not covered at all: the 21% VAT, certifying and apostilling your documents in your home country, bank account opening, ongoing accounting, tax and payroll compliance, which we scope separately once you are trading, and tax advice in your home jurisdiction. Your share capital is your own money rather than a fee, and Argentina sets no fixed monetary minimum, though in practice it must be at least twice the local minimum wage.

We start immediately and stand up your compliance dashboard with a named point of contact. The first stage is document reception, so we tell you exactly which home-country documents to certify and apostille, and we begin the certified Spanish translation as they arrive. From there we run the remaining three stages: registering the foreign company, registering the S.A.S. subsidiary including its tax ID and its social security and labor registrations, and transferring the shares to the foreign parent. Along the way we produce the bilingual board resolution, the Professional Prequalification Opinion, the Investment Plan, and the PEP and beneficial ownership declarations.

About two months end to end, covering the foreign company registration, the subsidiary registration, and the share transfer. That clock assumes your apostilled documents reach us promptly. Certification and apostille in your home country is the step we do not control, and it is the usual reason an Argentine setup runs long, so start it as soon as we send you the list.

Your home-country corporate documents, certified and apostilled at origin, plus a Certificate of Good Standing that is less than six months old. You send those to us and we handle the certified Spanish translation. You also sign a bilingual board resolution approving the registration, PEP and beneficial ownership sworn declarations, and provide shareholder and director details for the filings. If you are appointing your own Argentine legal representative, we need their notarized statement of acceptance, personal data, and domicile.

Argentina does not require a local director. It does require a legal representative resident in Argentina who holds a local Tax ID. That is a distinct role from a director, and it is mandatory even when every shareholder and director lives abroad. Every company must also declare a registered legal address, since the Declaration of Legal Address is part of the incorporation filing, and a registered or virtual office satisfies it without leasing commercial space. Neither is in the base price: we provide the resident legal representative for $20,000 per year and the legal address for $1,500 per year, and you skip either one if you already have your own.

Bank account opening is not priced into the Argentina package, and the account opening itself is always the bank's own process. We guide and coordinate banking setup as part of formation and point you to banking partners suited to the jurisdiction and your risk profile. Sequencing matters here: the entity has to exist before an account can open, and the account usually needs to be in place before funding and employee transfers, so we line those steps up rather than leaving you with a subsidiary that cannot transact.

Obligations attach to the entity, not to its revenue. A registered Argentine subsidiary with no trading activity still owes its statutory filings, and the legal representative and registered address requirements continue regardless of whether you have invoiced anyone. No operations does not mean no obligations, so a quiet entity can quietly fall out of good standing. Your compliance calendar carries those items from day one so that does not happen.

Your subsidiary gets a per-entity compliance calendar built from its jurisdiction, entity type, and fiscal year end, with automated reminders ahead of each due date. The two annual roles, the resident legal representative and the registered legal address, renew on schedule so the company stays in good standing with the authorities. You can change what you buy later: ongoing tax, accounting, and payroll are scoped once you start trading, and calendar items that do not apply to you are cleaned up during setup. Your other entities sit on the same dashboard, so a multi-country structure stays on one source of truth.