Company Formation & Business Registration in the Philippines
Setting up a business in the Philippines involves several agencies: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for corporations, or the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) for sole proprietorships, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for tax registration, the barangay and city government for business permits, and SSS, PhilHealth, and Pag-IBIG if you will hire staff. For foreign investors, it also means checking foreign ownership limits and minimum capital rules before choosing a structure. At Bizzure Visa, we guide you from structuring through to your first business permit, with careful attention to the corporate documents that define your rights as an owner.
Before you register: Certain business activities are reserved to Filipinos or capped at specific foreign ownership levels under the Foreign Investment Negative List (FINL). The current list is the 13th Regular FINL (Executive Order No. 113, s. 2026). Domestic-market companies with more than 40% foreign equity must also meet the minimum paid-in capital rules of the Foreign Investments Act (RA 7042, as amended by RA 11647). We check your activity against both before anything is filed.
