Formation documents, the operating or shareholder agreement, share or membership ledgers, the lease or premises contract, licences, bank statements showing capital arriving and being spent, payroll registers, and tax filings once they exist. Add a detailed business plan supported by market and financial evidence. Together these show a real enterprise rather than a company registered for immigration purposes.
Set up the bookkeeping the case will need
Choose an accounting system and a filing structure in the first month, not the month before filing. Tag every transaction funded by the invested capital so the deployment story can be produced on demand. Keep the personal source-of-funds file — sale contracts, tax returns, loan documents, transfer receipts — physically separate from company records, since it answers a different question.
Ask the accountant to produce a monthly package that counsel can review without reconstruction work. Choose an accounting system and a filing structure in the first month rather than the month before filing, and tag every transaction funded by the invested capital so the deployment story can be produced on demand. Keep the personal source-of-funds file, meaning sale contracts, tax returns, loan documents, and transfer receipts, physically separate from company records, since the two answer entirely different questions.
The corporate set includes formation documents, the operating or shareholder agreement, share or membership ledgers, the lease or premises contract, licences, bank statements showing capital arriving and being spent, payroll registers, and tax filings once they exist. Ask the accountant for a monthly package counsel can review without reconstruction work.