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Overview

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Identifiers

Collect two identifiers from each business customer in Trinidad and Tobago and submit them as strings on the application body. Tax ID: Numeric code; mandatory for all companies; also serves as VAT registration number when VAT-registered. Registration number: Assigned on incorporation via CROS; appears on Certificate of Incorporation.

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Sector regulators

CBTT · TTSEC · FIUTT

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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. Not applicable in Trinidad and Tobago: Ownership Records. Skip these areas — no local artifact exists.

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Collection notes

  • Legal Registration: Issued by RGD under Companies Act Chap. 81:01 s.9; includes company name, registration number, and date.
  • Constitutive Documents: Filed with RGD on incorporation; By-laws govern internal management.
  • Tax Registration: Issued by IRD; numeric code required on all tax correspondence and returns.
  • Operating Permit: Trade Licence issued by Ministry of Trade for goods import/export; municipal permit from relevant Municipal Corporation for premises operation.
  • Sector-Specific License: CBTT licenses banks, insurers, and payment service providers. TTSEC registers broker-dealers and virtual asset service providers. FIUTT supervises designated non-financial businesses.
  • Governance Records: Filed via Annual Return; includes Notice of Directors (Form 8) on incorporation and updates thereafter.
  • Signing Authority: Board resolution authorising a signatory, or a notarized POA; witnessed by Commissioner of Affidavits or Notary Public if POA.
  • Address: Lease (no time bound) or utility bill or bank statement dated within 90 days. Satisfies both registered-address and operating-address checks.
  • Good Standing: Issued by the Registrar General’s Department upon request; requires all Annual Returns filed and all notices of change submitted. Confirms the company is active, not in winding up, and compliant with statutory filing obligations.

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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

  • Apostille is available: T&T acceded to the Hague Convention on 1999-10-28 (EIF 2000-07-14); corporate documents authenticated by the RGD are apostillable without full legalisation chain.
  • VASPs must now seek authorisation under the Virtual Assets and Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2025 (Act No. 12 of 2025, assented 2025-12-23) via TTSEC’s regulatory sandbox — this supersedes prior ad hoc TTSEC guidance on virtual asset business.
  • External companies (foreign branches) must register with the RGD within 14 days of establishing operations in T&T; they file separate BO and director forms.
  • Annual Return must be filed on the anniversary of incorporation; failure triggers BO and director register lapses that can block KYB verification.