Business Registration Super-Form & Electronic Business Registration

Name of Entity: 

Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ)

Brief Description: 

This initiative is geared towards simplifying, speeding up and making less onerous the process of registering new companies and business names through the use of a single form. This also further allows for a fully electronic system that involves interfacing with the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), as well as the Tax Administration Jamaica's (TAJ) Taxpayer Registration Number (TRN), and Tax Compliance Certificate (TCC) systems (companies only).

Additionally, registration with HEART Trust/NTA and the National Housing Trust (NHT) will be undertaken using the same methodology. This electronic registration process utilizes 'Web Service Technology' to achieve the desired outcome.

Benefits: 

The electronic exchange of data between COJ's system and the NIS and TAJ systems have effectively replaced the need to fill out numerous forms that were previously used for the registration and commencement of companies and business names, and have therefore eliminated the need for the customer to visit various government agencies and departments to complete the start-up process.

More specifically, the number of forms to be completed has been reduced from thirteen (13) to one (1) for a business name and two (2) for a company since January 2, 2014. The time to register and start a company or business has been reduced by two (2) days.

Find Contact: 

Companies Office of Jamaica
1 Grenada Way
Kingston 5
Jamaica
Telephone: (876) 908-4419-25

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