It starts on a desk at night. It ends with your name on the building.
Filed by a chartered accounting practice, not a registration mill.
This is the part that lasts.
A company is not the certificate. It is the tax position, the share register and the ownership you set today and live with for years. We settle the four questions that decide them before we lodge, not after.
Open for business in one to three business days.
Registration number, CIPC documents, beneficial ownership filed and your SARS income tax number confirmed. Everything you need to bank, invoice and grow.
Practising since 2009. The client and retention figures are our own estimates across that time.
No professional licence is needed to lodge a CIPC form, which is why so many people offer it. These are the credentials behind yours.
Three categories. One administrative back office.
Engage any single service, or several at once. The administrative scope is yours to define.
Set up new entities.
Form companies, NPCs, personal liability companies and pre-registered shelf companies. Set up correctly the first time so the back-end doesn’t need a rebuild at year-end.
Register & certify.
SARS registrations (VAT, PAYE, Tax Compliance Status, import and export), CIPC filings, BEE EME affidavits: the documents you’ll be asked to produce within months of forming.
Maintain compliance.
CIPC annual returns, Beneficial Ownership filings, director changes, share register maintenance and address changes: the filings that keep the entity in good standing once it exists.
Four steps, and we run three of them.
Your part is the first step. Everything after it is ours, and the CIPC and SARS filings run in parallel rather than one after the other.
You brief us
Three name choices in order of preference, your directors and shareholders, and a physical address. Ten minutes on a form.
Your stepWe check before we lodge
A chartered accountant reads the brief, confirms the documents are certified and legible, and raises anything that would draw a CIPC rejection. Corrections happen here, not after a refusal.
Our stepWe file, in parallel
Name reservation, then incorporation with the beneficial-ownership register. Income tax registration follows from incorporation, and anything further you have asked for is lodged as soon as the company number exists rather than queued behind it.
Our stepYou trade
Registration certificate, notice of incorporation, MOI, share certificates and your tax number. Enough to open a bank account and invoice.
Our stepRegistered in 1 to 3 business days, counted from the moment we have your completed application and your certified documents. That is the CIPC side. The refund guarantee below covers our part of that chain, and it sets out separately what you get when the delay is CIPC’s. SARS runs to its own clock: income tax follows incorporation, but VAT is materially longer, often 2 to 4 weeks and longer again where a physical verification is called. Your SARS income tax reference number is issued off the incorporation, so it needs no separate application. Appointing your public officer and activating the company on eFiling is a separate step. We do not average them together to make a better headline.
The filings we make, and the documents you keep.
What MAW files
- CoR 9.1 name reservation, lodged in your ranked order
- CoR 14.1 notice of incorporation, with CoR 14.1A listing your initial directors
- The standard short-form MOI (CoR 15.1A). Where the structure needs a customised MOI (CoR 15.1C) we quote it before we lodge, because it carries a higher CIPC fee and a longer turnaround
- Your beneficial ownership declaration to CIPC, with the certified copies and the securities register it must be supported by
- Your SARS income tax registration, which SARS raises automatically off the CIPC incorporation. We check it landed and hand you the number
What you walk away with
- Registration certificate (CoR 14.3), the document a bank asks for
- Notice of incorporation and the registered MOI
- Share certificates and an opened share register
- Your company registration number and CIPC customer code
- Your SARS income tax reference number
- Your beneficial ownership declaration already filed, and your register of beneficial interests opened, not a task left with you
Not included unless you add it: appointing your public officer and activating the company on eFiling, VAT, PAYE, UIF and SDL registration, import and export codes, tax compliance status, and BEE EME affidavits. Each is priced separately, because most new companies do not need all of them on day one and we would rather not sell you what you cannot yet use. Several of them stop being optional the moment a trigger is hit, so know the triggers. Every company must have a public officer, and the Tax Administration Act allows one month from the day it starts trading. You must register as an employer within 21 business days of paying anyone, including yourself as a working director. You must register for VAT once taxable supplies pass R2,3 million in any 12 month period, and you then have 21 business days to apply. SDL follows once your annual payroll passes R500,000. Tell us your plans when you apply and we will tell you which of these you will need and when, at no charge.
One price, stated before you pay.
Private company (Pty) Ltd registration
CIPC registration of a private company: the name reservation, the standard short-form MOI, the director appointments, the share register and your beneficial ownership declaration. CIPC’s own fees are included. SARS issues your income tax reference number off the incorporation, and we confirm it and hand it to you. Appointing your public officer and activating eFiling is a separate step, priced separately. Every company needs one within a month of trading, and we will tell you what yours needs.
Registered in 1 to 3 business days from the moment we have everything. If the delay is ours, you get the full R697 back. If CIPC is the delay, you may cancel for a refund of the R697 less any CIPC fees already paid on your behalf. The guarantee, in full.
Online payment is not open yet. This opens an email with your details filled in. We confirm scope, fee and turnaround by return, then invoice you directly.
No email program on this device? Write to info@mawinc.co.za or call 010 592 7717.
The three-day promise
Once we have your completed application and your certified documents, we lodge the same business day and your company is normally registered within three business days. That is our normal turnaround, not a best case.
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Step 1
The clock starts when we have everything
Not when you pay, and not when you send the first half. A missing certified ID or an illegible proof of address stops it, and we will tell you the same day if something is missing rather than sitting on it.
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Step 2
We lodge the same business day
Your application goes to CIPC on the same business day your documents are complete, as long as they reach us during business hours. Anything that lands after hours goes first thing the next business day.
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Step 3
CIPC registers, normally within three business days
Registration is effected by CIPC, not by us. Three business days is the normal turnaround on a complete application.
Guarantees and terms
- The R697 refund guarantee
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If the delay is ours, email info@mawinc.co.za and we refund the full R697, no argument.
- When CIPC is the delay
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Read the promise honestly: registration is effected by CIPC, not by us. CIPC sometimes queues, sometimes rejects a name choice, and occasionally goes down. Those days sit outside the promise, which means the guarantee covers our part of the chain and not CIPC's.
What we commit to when CIPC is the delay is different, and it is unconditional: you hear from us with what has happened and what we are doing about it, without having to ask, and you may cancel for a refund of the R697 less any CIPC fees already paid on your behalf.
- Your seven-day right, and what it means here
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The Electronic Communications and Transactions Act gives you seven days to cancel an online services agreement without giving a reason. Registration is fast, so we usually finish well inside that window.
When you submit the application you are asking us to start immediately, which is what allows us to hit three days. Once we have lodged with CIPC the seven day cancellation no longer reaches the work already done, and the CIPC fees paid on your behalf are not recoverable.
If you would rather we held off until the seven days have run, say so and we will.
| What happened | What you get |
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| A delay caused by us | The full R697 back |
| A delay caused by CIPC | You may cancel for a refund of the R697 less any CIPC fees already paid on your behalf |
| Documents missing or illegible | The clock does not start until they are corrected |
None of this limits your rights under the Consumer Protection Act or the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act. Where those Acts give you more than this page does, they win.
Your information
We collect what your filings require, what the law requires us to hold about the people behind the company, and what we need to take your payment and keep our own accounting records. We use it for nothing else. We keep it for at least five years after the engagement ends, as the Financial Intelligence Centre Act requires, extending to seven years for anything forming part of your company’s own statutory records under the Companies Act, and longer where a SARS audit or dispute is still running. Our full privacy notice is on this site and you can read it before you pay.
What is outside our control
CIPC and SARS turnaround times are theirs, not ours. We state the typical range from our own filing history, and we tell you when something has stalled rather than leaving you to wonder.
Who does the work
A chartered accounting practice, not a registration mill reselling a portal. If the entity needs a structure conversation before it is formed, you get one.
For urgent or specific-structure use cases.
A pre-registered entity that already has CIPC registration in place and, where available, an existing tax number and VAT registration. Used for specific transactions, urgent timing needs, or structures where a fresh registration would take too long.
Stock changes: enquire for current options.
Shelf company stock turns over. Some have full registrations including tax and VAT; some have CIPC only. Pricing reflects what comes with the entity. Because availability fluctuates, we don’t publish prices. We confirm what’s on the shelf at the time of enquiry.
A shelf company is a tool for specific use cases. Not a tax-avoidance vehicle. We’re explicit about that during the enquiry.
Request to confirmation, in five steps.
Every registration follows the same five steps. The clock below is the CIPC side. The refund guarantee is measured against our part of it, and the terms set out what happens when the delay is CIPC’s.
Three audience profiles.
Founders, existing companies, and the firms that outsource this work to us. Each is in scope.
Founders forming companies.
Setting up the first entity, or adding a new entity to an existing group. We register the company, activate the tax types, issue the certificates, all in one workflow.
Existing companies needing admin changes.
Director changes, share register updates, annual returns and address changes: the ongoing CIPC and SARS work that keeps the entity in good standing.
Accountants & legal firms outsourcing.
B2B engagements: smaller professional firms that want to offer this work to their clients without building the CIPC and SARS workflow in-house.
The chartered accounting edge.
Anyone can file a CIPC form. What we add is the tax-aware structure advice that comes from chartered-accounting depth: the questions about how the entity will be used a year from now, where the shares should sit, who the public officer should be, and which tax registrations to activate when.
If you want ongoing compliance after the registration is complete, the same team picks it up. Many of our clients cascade naturally into our Accounting, Tax & Business Compliance service once the entity is registered: same firm, no rebuild, no handover. Ask us about it once your company number is through.
- Tax-aware structure advice: what the entity needs to look like at year-end shapes how we set it up today.
- Public officer and beneficial-owner registry done right: the small details CIPC and SARS later care about.
- No re-mapping at year-end: chart of accounts and tax setup match SA statutory reporting from day one.
- Cascade to ongoing compliance: ATBC, payroll, VAT, management accounts handled by the same team.
- Discreet handling for sensitive matters: removals and structural changes managed without unnecessary disclosure.
The back office, behind your front desk.
If you run a smaller accounting or legal practice and your clients need CIPC and SARS work that you don’t want to build in-house, we’re the back office. You stay in front of the client. We do the filings.
Discreet handling.
Your clients don’t need to know we’re in the chain. Everything is invoiced to your firm, returned to you, branded as you need.
No competing.
We don’t poach. The B2B engagement is a back-office arrangement; we stay out of your client relationship.
Volume pricing.
If you’re sending us regular work, fees are structured accordingly. Talk to us about a back-office arrangement that fits your volume.
The questions we hear most often.
How long does each service take?
How is this priced?
Why does VAT registration sometimes require a SARS Visit?
How does shelf company availability work?
Do I need a BEE EME certificate?
What’s involved in Beneficial Ownership reporting?
Can accountants and legal firms outsource this work to MAW?
Do you sell financial products (insurance, RAs, investments)?
Your company, registered this week.
R697 once off, CIPC fees included. Registered in 1 to 3 business days from the moment we have everything.