The agencies a foreign company ends up dealing with, and in what order

Company registration involves one agency; operating legally afterward involves several more, and the order matters. Registration comes first, the Corporate Affairs Commission in Nigeria, the Office of the Registrar of Companies in Ghana, the e-Citizen portal in Kenya. Tax registration follows, sometimes as a separate step and sometimes folded into the same process, as it is with Kenya's KRA PIN. Sector regulators come after that, and which ones apply depends entirely on the industry: a mining company deals with a minerals commission that a software company never encounters.

Knowing which agency to contact, and in what sequence, saves the most common source of delay: submitting an application to the right agency before a prerequisite step with a different agency has cleared. The directory lists the agencies relevant to the countries and sectors covered on this site, with the mandate of each one stated plainly.

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