Pakistan offers significant opportunity for international investors — and significant regulatory complexity. UMCO acts as a single local point of contact, coordinating the path from entity formation and SECP registration through tax compliance to SBP repatriation approvals.
International businesses entering Pakistan face an unfamiliar regulatory landscape: SECP for corporate registration, FBR for tax and NTN, SBP for foreign-exchange and remittance approvals, and provincial bodies for sales-tax registration. Navigating these concurrently while meeting a contract deadline is a significant operational challenge.
Today, the practice has served more than 100 businesses — founder-led SMEs and subsidiaries of international groups. Engagements span audit, review, compilation, and agreed-upon procedures, alongside tax, advisory, outsourcing, and digital transformation support. Internationally, UMCO delivers work under outsourcing arrangements with professional firms in Saudi Arabia and Canada, including Local Content verification support and outsourced accounting.
Entity-type selection (private limited, branch, liaison office), ownership structuring, and timeline planning.
End-to-end company registration, memorandum drafting, and post-incorporation SECP filings.
Taxpayer registration, sales-tax enrolment, and first-year return preparation and filing.
Investment inflow approvals, dividend repatriation, and tech-export facilitation under SBP regulations.
Introductions to commercial banks and assistance with corporate account opening documentation.
Continuous tax, secretarial, and accounting support — so the parent company doesn't need a local finance hire.
SECP incorporation, secretarial compliance, and ongoing governance support for foreign entities.
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Explore serviceFull finance back-office so your Pakistan entity runs without a local finance hire.
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