How to Register Your Business Online

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How to Register Your Business Online

Overview of Business Registration through Old and New Procedures

Registering a business may involve a series of ministries/institutions. Generally, Ministry of Commerce (MoC), General Department of

Taxation (GDT) and Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training (MLVT) are the three main relevant ministries/institutions you need to go through to get your business registered. To run a business legally, you should first register at MoC before registering tax at GDT and announcing the opening of your enterprise at MLVT. Nevertheless, some businesses may need to go through other ministries/institutions in addition to the above-mentioned ministries/ institutions – for instance, Ministry of Tourism (for restaurants), Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (for construction companies), Ministry of Health (for pharmacies or private hospitals), etc.
This registration procedure requires you to register your business at different ministries/institutions through different methods (electronically, semi-electronically and/or physically). To complete a business registration, you need to wait multiple times until each ministry/institution approves. Electronic registration system of each ministry/institution is monolithic, thus is unable to either communicate or safely exchange data with one another. In such a fashion, you would be required to fill out the same information on different forms of different ministries/institutions.