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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Cambodia and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Two distinct GDT certificates: Patent Tax Certificate (annual, all businesses) and VAT Certificate (threshold-based). Patent tax number used as primary business tax ID. Registration number: Numeric; appears on Certificate of Incorporation and MOC online profile. Also called “Registration Number.”

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Sector regulators

NBC · SERC · IRC · CAFIU

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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: Downloaded electronically from MOC portal (QR-code verified); bilingual Khmer/English.
  • Constitutive Documents: Filed with MOC at incorporation; Khmer language version is controlling; English translation accepted for KYB.
  • Tax Registration: Collect both: Patent Tax Certificate confirms general business tax registration; VAT Certificate confirms VAT status. Annual Patent Tax renewal due 31 March.
  • Operating Permit: Issued by Phnom Penh Municipality or relevant provincial/Sangkat authority; confirms premises registration. No single national operating licence equivalent.
  • Sector-Specific License: Required only for regulated-sector customers; confirm applicable prakas (regulatory instrument) number.
  • Governance Records: Current directors listed on the MOC extract; confirm via CamDX portal.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution is standard; notarized POA for external parties. Cambodia is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention — foreign documents require full embassy/consular legalisation chain.
  • 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: MOC issues a distinct Certificate of Good Standing via the CamDX portal (businessregistration.moc.gov.kh); typically accepted as valid for 6 months from issue date.

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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

  • Cambodia is not a party to the Hague Apostille Convention; legalisation of foreign documents requires the full chain (notarisation → home-country competent authority → Cambodian embassy/consulate). Factor in material lead time.
  • The Patent Tax Certificate must be renewed annually by 31 March; an expired certificate is a common KYB red flag for non-compliant businesses — check issue/renewal date on the certificate.
  • MOC certificates are issued as electronic documents with QR codes via CamDX; accept digital copies (legally valid under Cambodian e-government framework) but verify QR code authenticates to the MOC portal.