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No. Nothing is charged until you confirm on the payment screen, and you see the full invoice there first. The $11,500 incorporation fee is one-time. Any service your answers added is listed with its own cadence, annual or monthly, so read those labels before you confirm because they keep billing after the first cycle. New Zealand has no minimum share capital, so there is no capital deposit to fund on top.

We start immediately and open your compliance dashboard with a named point of contact instead of a ticket queue. First we collect KYC for every director, shareholder, and beneficial owner. Then we reserve the name with the Companies Register, complete pre-registration compliance (constitution, registered address, director and shareholder consents, statutory declarations), file the incorporation, register your IRD number, and start the corporate bank account application.

For every director and shareholder: legal name, contact details, and residential address, plus a notarized passport copy for anyone who is not a New Zealand resident. Each ultimate beneficial owner adds a notarized passport or government ID, notarized proof of residential address in English (a bank statement or utility bill no older than 3 months), a CV, proof of source of income, and a signed UBO declaration. A corporate shareholder sends its certificate of incorporation, register of members, register of directors, register of beneficial owners, constitution, and latest annual return and tax return. If your parent is a U.S. company those registers usually do not exist, so we have you prepare an internal document listing directors and UBOs, signed by the company secretary.

Incorporation runs about a week once signed documents and IDs are back from everyone. The clock really starts when that paperwork is complete, and the Companies Register controls the final approval. The corporate bank account follows incorporation and takes around four weeks, which is the banks' timeline, not ours.

Yes. The $11,500 covers the Companies Register filings, so no separate government-fee invoice arrives later. It also covers your IRD number registration, the company secretary and legal registered address for year 1, year 1 of a local nominee director including the security deposit, and the corporate bank account opening. There is no minimum share capital in New Zealand, so nothing has to be deposited before registration. A company can be formed with NZD 1.

Yes, unless one of your own directors already lives in New Zealand, or lives in Australia while also serving as a director of an Australian company. New Zealand law requires at least one director who meets that test, so where nobody on your team does, a local nominee director must be appointed to satisfy the statutory obligation. Year 1 of that nominee is inside the $11,500, bundled with the company secretary, the registered address, and the nominee's security deposit. From year 2 those three renew together at $8,500 per year, so budget for it before you buy.

The $11,500 is one-time and covers incorporation, your IRD number, the company secretary and registered address for year 1, year 1 of the local nominee director with security deposit, and the bank account opening. The biggest item outside it is the year 2 onward renewal of that same bundle, the company secretary, registered address, and local nominee director together at $8,500 per year, which every company without its own resident director keeps paying annually. The other paid services are GST registration ($800 one-time), GST filing ($500 for a bi-monthly cycle or $2,000 for a bi-annual cycle), preparation of management accounts and the corporate tax return ($4,500 per year), payroll system setup ($500 one-time), Xero payroll for up to 20 employees ($3,600 per year), and monthly payroll ($250 per month for your first employee, $150 per month for each additional one). Share capital you choose to contribute, trademark or IP work, and tax advice in your home country are not part of any package.

Yes, and it is already in the $11,500. A corporate account is needed for full operational capability, and the company has to exist before an account can open, so we start it right after incorporation. We prepare your business profile and submit it to several international and regional banks. They run full KYC and director-level due diligence, so the roughly four-week timeline and the decision itself are the bank's, and approval cannot be guaranteed.

Because New Zealand obligations attach to the company, not to its revenue. Your company is registered with Inland Revenue from day one, and every year it must prepare financial statements and file a corporate tax return even with little or no activity. It also has to keep a resident director and a registered address in place the whole time. Skip any of that and the company's good standing is at risk.

Yes. Add GST registration and a filing cycle when you actually start selling in New Zealand rather than now. Add accounts and the corporate tax return at any year end, and add payroll when you make your first hire. Payroll scales with headcount at $150 per month for each employee beyond the first, so you only pay for people you employ. Every change goes through your point of contact and lands on the same invoice.

Your company gets a compliance calendar built from its own details, covering the New Zealand deadlines it actually owes: annual financial statements and the corporate tax return with Inland Revenue, GST returns on whichever cycle you chose, and payroll filings. Reminders go out ahead of each due date and every item carries a status, so you see what is upcoming, in progress, and filed. Where a filing sits inside your plan we do it and put the confirmation in your dashboard. Entities you add in other countries later land on the same dashboard.

Both. The platform gives you the dashboard, compliance calendar, and document vault, and an in-house team covering New Zealand handles the Companies Register filing, the IRD and GST registrations, the annual accounts, and the bank application. The nominee is a real person appointed as a director of your company to satisfy the residency requirement, not a name on a form. You get one named contact for the account rather than a ticket queue.