CIPC & Statutory Compliance

The filings that sink small companies are rarely the tax ones. They are the annual return nobody diarised and the letter of good standing that expired the week a tender closed.

A CIPC annual return is due within 30 business days of the anniversary of incorporation, every year, regardless of whether the company traded. Miss enough of them and CIPC begins deregistration — which is recoverable, but only through a reinstatement process that costs far more than the returns would have. We handle those reinstatements, including the outstanding returns and supporting affidavits they require.

Beneficial ownership registers must now be filed alongside the annual return, and kept current when holdings change. We maintain the register rather than reconstructing it each year.

Changes to the entity itself run through the same office: appointing and resigning directors, admitting and removing CC members, registered and postal address changes, converting a close corporation to a private company, and converting a Pty to a personal liability company where a profession requires it.

COIDA returns of earnings are submitted annually so your letter of good standing stays live, and for exempted micro enterprises under R10 million turnover we prepare the B-BBEE affidavit that most procurement departments will ask for.