More Nevis IBC Benefits...
- Limited business activity may be carried
out in Nevis while still maintaining tax exemption
- Nevis Corporations may redomicile into and
out of Nevis
- A Managing Director of a Nevis Corporation
may be appointed to guide the activities of
the company
- Directors and Shareholders may act by unanimous
consent without a meeting
Support for Business
In conjunction with our resident Nevis associate,
we provide incorporation and the following support
services to ensure compliance with The Nevis
Business Corporation Ordinance.
- One hour Nevis company formation service
- Return of official documentation evidencing
incorporation within one week by courier
- Facsimile filings and transmission of evidence
within hours of filing
- Instantaneous name clearance
- Rapid corporate status advice and issuance
of Certificates of Good Standing
- Inexpensive incorporation and annual charges
- Ready made companies for emergency situations
- Nevis offshore bank account services
- Resident management services when required
- Sample documentation for assistance in preparation
- Copies of The Nevis Business Corporation Ordinance
1984
- Saturday incorporation and filings available
- Formal Name Reservation procedure
- Assistance in obtaining Legal Opinions from
local Nevis counsel
Profile of Nevis
Business Jewel of the Caribbean
Christopher Columbus discovered Nevis on his
second voyage in 1493. Rich in both scenic beauty
and history, it is one of the Lesser Antilles
and was claimed by Spain but was not settled
by Europeans until the English arrived in 1628.
The Spanish
name for Nevis was "Nuestra senora
de las Nieves" meaning "Our
Lady of the Snows" and it was later
anglicized to "Nevis." Mount
Nevis, in the center of the Island, towers
3,265 feet (985 meters) and is usually
enveloped in clouds which can sometimes
appear as a snow cap, hence the origin
of the name.
The climate is nearly perfect
and the variation in altitude and soil
conditions on this 36-square-mile island
creates a natural garden of tropical vegetation
ranging from rain forest to near desert.
Brilliant flowers and exotic fauna abound.
On the Caribbean side there
is an unspoiled four mile long beach,
a quarter mile of which has been taken
up by the new 196 room Four Seasons Resort.
It has a beautiful 18 hole Robert Trent
Jones golf course, tennis courts and swimming
pools in addition to the ocean frontage,
and has doubled the number of hotel rooms
available on the island. It is a combined
Canadian, Japanese and French project
and is reported to be the first major
Japanese property investment in the Caribbean.
Its grand opening was in February of 1991. |
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We highly recommend accommodations in one of
the 10 unique small inns, most of them converted
18th century sugar plantations with original
stone buildings and windmill towers. They possess
an easygoing ambiance and attract upscale visitors,
many of whom return year after year. The government
wishes to increase tourism but insists that
all development be of five-star quality and
has rejected mass tourism as an official policy.
The visitor attracted to Nevis usually appreciates
the historical character of the island. Today's
population is about 39,000. Of this, approximately
8,000 are on Nevis, about one-third of what
it was when sugar was King and the value of
exports from Nevis exceeded that of any single
British colony in North America.
Alexander Hamilton, a founding father of the
United States and first Secretary of the U.S.
Treasury, was born in Charlestown in 1757. His
face is currently on the US $10 bill. His home
has been reconstructed and the lower level houses
a museum and the upper level the meeting chamber
for the Nevis Island Assembly.
Admiral Lord Nelson was stationed in Nevis
and married Frances Nisbet of Nevis at Montpelier
Plantation in 1787. The parish register of St.
John's Church is on display open to the page
recording the wedding, and the marriage itself
was reenacted in 1987 in period costume with
a Royal Navy honor guard present at Montpelier,
now an inn. Nevis was a British colony from
1628 until 1983, when it became independent
and joined the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
The Federation is an active member of the British
Commonwealth. Nevis is a vigorous democracy
based upon the British Parliamentary system
with an elected local assembly. The largest
expenditure by the government is for education
and Nevis has achieved a literacy rate of 97%,
possibly the highest in the Western Hemisphere.
The Federation St. Kitts and Nevis has also
been consistently judged to be among the world's
freest nations by Freedom House, an independent
and highly respected research organization in
the USA. Combined with a low crime rate, full
employment and lack of drug related difficulties,
Nevis is exceptionally stable politically.
The per capita income is about U.S. $8,800.00
per annum. The political parties reflect this
stability in that they are both centrist and
do not have substantial ideological differences.
Several years ago, the Government privatized
telecommunications, and Cable and Wireless of
England has since installed a state-of-the-art
fiber optic digital system. Standard and cellular
telephone service is available throughout the
island. Any part of the world may be direct-dialed
from Nevis without difficulty.
The Nevis airport can accommodate 70-passenger
propeller aircraft to land and take off. Nevis
has connecting flights to Puerto Rico and Antigua
for the USA and Britain; St. Kitts for the USA
and Canada; and St. Martin for the USA, Holland
and France. There is a daily ferry boat service
to St. Kitts, 11 miles away. The best way for
you to gain an appreciation for Nevis and its
corporate program is, of course, for you to
visit. If that is temporarily impractical, please
allow Companies Incorporated an opportunity
to demonstrate to you its commitment to prompt
and outstanding service to the international
corporate community. Companies Incorporated
is the one of the sole Western US management
consulting firms offering Nevis corporation
formation.
A note from Kevin Wessell, the President of
Offshorecorporation.com (a division of Companies
Incorporated - since 1977) about the search
for Nevis
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We spent a
lot of time looking for an offshore domicile
that we could honestly recommend to our
clients seeking the asset protection and
privacy of a base outside of the United
States. There are literally hundreds of
places promoting their spot as the best.
The one thing I insisted on was absolute
propriety, where there would be a scrupulous
regard for international law and the laws
of the United States. No phony banks,
no money laundering, no tax evasion. There's
been a lot of that around the world, and
I wanted no part of it.
So when I finally visited Nevis,
an independent nation, which has joined
St. Kitts to form the Federation of St.
Kitts & Nevis, I was intrigued. The
more I investigated, the more confident
I became that we had found a truly peaceful,
law-abiding base for our clients seeking
Privacy and Protection.
The fact that Nevis' corporate law and
Nevis asset protection provisions are
largely based on U.S. and British codes
was one of the first aspects of the country
that attracted me. That meant no major
legal problems in understanding how to
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Many of our clients seek to expand their businesses
around the world and need to be free of the
cumbersome legal code questions and corporate
procedures they face in some domiciles. They
need a secure, dependable domicile, a place
where they know the laws will be fairly and
honestly followed. That's Nevis. And believe
me, we've thought long and hard about this before
deciding we could recommend Nevis. With our
long history of doing business with multitudes
of corporate clients and our reputation to guard,
we don't dare go with anything but the very
best for our clients.
There were other factors, of course. We had
to look at Nevis corporations from a strictly business point
of view. Knowing our clients, we looked for
a base that offered such things as these:
- No disclosure of Owners, Officers, or Directors.
- Strong, safe banking institutions.
- No requirement for annual financial returns.
- Freedom to locate offices and records wherever
desired
- Ability to maintain certain control without
ownership.
- No requirement that officers or directors
be citizens of the country.
-Freedom to issue bearer shares.
- Authority to redomicile in or out of the country.
- Strict privacy laws.
Nevis corporations more than met our requirements.
Underlying all of these considerations is
the fact that Nevis is a stable, parliamentary,
democratic country. That's why I can honestly
recommend any client who wishes to enjoy the
benefits of an offshore domicile to consider
Nevis. I think many American business people
simply don't realize how they can benefit from
an offshore domicile. Asset protection and privacy
are two of the major factors.
With tort lawyers enjoying wide latitude these
days, an offshore domicile could be the cheapest
form of liability insurance an American company
could find. Right now the U.S. is in the midst
of a "litigation explosion." I think
Nevis is the kind of bomb shelter many businesses
need to escape the fallout from that explosion.
Rather than the usual $5,000 US to $8,000 US
for an offshore company, a Nevis LLC is only
$1495 US.
An offshore bank account is only $350 US.
The total for the Nevis LLC plus offshore bank
account is only $1845 US.
We also highly recommend the
Nevis Office Program which
gives you a Nevis office address with mail forwarding,
a shared telephone number answered by a live
receptionist, and a Nevis fax number. For extra
legitimacy and privacy, you can place your Nevis
Office Program address, telephone number and
fax number on your website and on company letterhead.
The Nevis office program can be added for only
$995 US.
It just makes good sense to explore your options
these days. Please feel free to call just to
talk it over---call 1-800-830-1055 or 661-253-3303
or order online by clicking the link below.
In addition, feel free to view our Nevis
Complete Management Package
