Submit all documents to the one-stop shop (API) and obtain registration certificate and the tax identification number
Agency: Agence de la Promotion et de l’Investissement (API)
The following documents need to be submitted at the Agence des Promotions des Investissements (API):
- Application form for the creation of a new company (includes name of the company, type of company, address, initial capital, number of partners and their names, contribution of each partner)
- Standard company statutes
- Application form for registration with the Greffe of the Tribunal de Commerce
- Application form for registration with the OBR to obtain the NIF
- Photos of all partners
- Copy of identities of all partners
The applicant first deposits all these documents at the API. The applicant will then obtain a certificate of incorporation and a fiscal identification number (NIF) issued by the tax authority (Office Burundais des Recettes). In addition, the applicant can now complete the registration of the company with the National Institute for Social Security at the one-stop shop.
Time and cost: 1 day, cost included in procedure 2
Pay the registration fees at the Commercial Bank cashier at API
Agency: Representative of the Commercial Bank of Burundi (BANCOBU) in the one-stop-shop
The applicant pays the registration fees at the Commercial Bank of Burundi (BANCOBU) located inside the one-stop shop.
Time and cost: 1 day, BIF 40.000
Make a company seal
Agency: Shops dealing with stamp making
The company seal is not required by law but it is done in practice.
Companies need it for their daily activities in order to authenticate their documents.
Time and cost: 2 days, BIF 20,000
Affiliation of employer and employees to an official body providing maternity and health insurance (mutual insurance company or any private health insurance)
Agency: Mutual insurance company or any private health insurance
The employer needs to affiliate his/her employees to a body providing maternity and health insurance and needs to have a proof of the health insurance coverage.
Time and cost: 1 day, no charge
