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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Azerbaijan and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Unique registration number assigned at incorporation; embedded in the State Registry Extract (Çıxarış). In practice the VÖEN doubles as the primary public identifier. Registration number: Unique registration number assigned at incorporation; embedded in the State Registry Extract (Çıxarış). In practice the VÖEN doubles as the primary public identifier.

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Sector regulators

CBAR

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How documents combine

For each evidence area, this table shows whether the listed documents are alternatives (any one of) or a bundle (all required). The artifact-by-artifact lookup follows below.

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Documents to collect

The physical documents you’ll collect from your customer, with the evidence area each one proves. One document can prove multiple areas — for example, Brazil’s Cartão CNPJ covers both tax and business-registration proof, so it appears once with both areas listed.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued by DVX; contains registration number, VÖEN, legal address, director. Order online via e-taxes.gov.az or ASAN service centers.
  • Constitutive Documents: Charter is the sole constituent doc for single-founder MMC/JSC; Founders’ Agreement required for multi-founder MMC.
  • Tax Registration: 10-digit TIN certificate issued by DVX at registration; also shown on Çıxarış.
  • Operating Permit: Required for activities on the licensed list; issued by DVX or relevant ministry. Many ordinary commercial activities need no license beyond registration.
  • Sector-Specific License: Required for banks, non-bank credit institutions, insurance, securities dealers, payment services, investment funds. All financial-sector licenses transferred from FIMSA to CBAR effective 2020-01-01.
  • Ownership Records: Çıxarış lists founding participants; founder and shareholder details are treated as confidential under the Tax Code. Request the company’s own Çıxarış or charter directly from the customer to verify ownership structure.
  • Governance Records: Current director (icra direktoru) named in Çıxarış; for JSCs, Supervisory Board (Müşahidə Şurası) members filed separately with DVX.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution of the general meeting or notarized POA authenticates signing authority for third parties; notarization via ASAN or state notary.
  • Address: Conduit universal policy: lease (no time bound) OR utility bill OR bank statement, with utility/bank dated within 90 days. Same evidence satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: No standalone good-standing certificate is issued; a recently dated copy of the listed document evidences current standing. Azerbaijan does not issue a separate certificate of good standing; a freshly ordered Çıxarış from DVX via e-taxes.gov.az reflects current active status and serves the same purpose.

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Person roles

When you submit a person on the application body, set their role to one of Conduit’s canonical BusinessPersonRole values. Use this table to map a local corporate-governance title onto the right canonical role.

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Notes

  • FIMSA no longer exists. FIMSA was liquidated by Presidential Order dated 2019-11-28; all financial market supervision (banking, insurance, securities, payments) transferred to CBAR effective 2020-01-01. Any reference to a FIMSA license in customer documents predates 2020 and should be treated as legacy.
  • Single-window registration = TIN + registry in one step. Azerbaijan’s DVX registers the entity and issues the VÖEN simultaneously (2-day turnaround for local-investment entities). There is no separate “business registration number” distinct from the VÖEN in practice.
  • Shareholder information is treated as confidential under the Tax Code. The Çıxarış issued to third parties may omit founder/shareholder details. Request the company’s own Çıxarış or the charter directly from the customer to verify ownership structure.
  • Azerbaijan is a party to the Hague Apostille Convention (acceded effective 2005-03-02; Netherlands objection withdrawn 2010-08-10; Germany objection withdrawn 2026-03-16). Corporate documents authenticated for cross-border use require apostille, not full embassy legalisation.