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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Dominica and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Taxpayer Identification Number issued by the Inland Revenue Division after business registration for tax purposes; businesses must register with IRD before commencing operations. Registration number: Issued by CIPO upon incorporation, external-company registration, or business-name registration; appears on the CIPO certificate or registry extract. Operating under an unregistered business name is an offence.

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Sector regulators

FSU · ECCB · ECSRC

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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 CIPO on incorporation, business-name registration, or external-company registration. A current CIPO registry extract is an accepted alternative.
  • Constitutive Documents: Filed at CIPO on incorporation; By-Laws collected where applicable/available.
  • Tax Registration: Any official IRD evidence showing the TIN is accepted. Do not require VAT registration unless the business is VAT-registered or required to be.
  • Operating Permit: Conditional — IRD or the local authority determines after registration whether the activity requires a licence (e.g. store/parlour, huckster, liquor, professional). Collect only where required.
  • Sector-Specific License: FSU regulates financial entities including virtual asset businesses; ECCB is the central monetary authority for the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; ECSRC regulates securities-market participants.
  • Ownership Records: Prefer the Register of Members; Register of Substantial Shareholders or Annual Return accepted where available.
  • Governance Records: CIPO’s current director filing is Form 9A (one per director); older references to a “Notice of Directors / Form 9” may be outdated.
  • Signing Authority: A company secretary is not automatically a legal representative; require resolution, mandate, articles, or other local authority to bind the company.
  • Address: Collect evidence of the registered office and, if different, the operating address. Utility bills and bank statements must be dated within 90 days; a current lease does not need to be.
  • Good Standing: Risk-based; recommended for regulated, higher-risk, foreign-owned, or older entities. Prefer a certificate or current CIPO registry extract issued within the last 3-6 months.

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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

  • Dominica’s IBC regime has been closed/repealed; legacy IBCs are not a current standard entity type. If a customer presents legacy IBC documents, escalate for enhanced review and request evidence of transition, continuation, dissolution, or current CIPO status.
  • All business names must be registered with CIPO; operating under an unregistered business name is an offence.
  • A company incorporated in another jurisdiction that intends to carry on business in Dominica must register with CIPO as an external company.
  • IRD informs a business after registration whether its activity requires a licence and of what type — do not require a trade or business licence for every customer by default.
  • For any customer in financial services, money services, virtual assets, securities, banking, insurance, trust services, or gaming, collect the applicable FSU / ECCB / ECSRC licence or registration evidence in addition to standard KYB documents.