How Much Does It Cost to Register a Company in Georgia? (2026 Breakdown)
A transparent, line-by-line cost breakdown for registering a Georgian LLC remotely in 2026: state fees, notarisation and apostille, translation, courier, registered address, service fees, VAT - plus the ongoing costs and the items that are only priced after assessment.
Most pricing pages show one number and hide the rest. Real remote formation has several independent cost lines - some fixed, some depending on your country, and some that no honest provider can quote before assessing your case. Here is the full picture for a remotely registered Georgian LLC in 2026.
€692
Typical one-off total, individual services
Standard single-founder remote LLC on the standard track, incl. VAT on the service fee, before the address; same-day registration adds about €70
€400
Of which service fee
The provider's own work, fixed at Trustlex, tax registration included
€1,400-2,000
First-year running costs
Address plus basic accounting, by activity
What you are actually paying for
A Georgian LLC (შპს) is registered with the National Agency of Public Registry under the Law of Georgia on Entrepreneurs (2021). The registration itself is inexpensive and fast; the cost of a remote formation comes from the formalities that let a representative act for you without your travelling - notarisation, apostille, translation and courier - plus the professional work of drafting and filing. Splitting the cost into its natural groups is the only way to see whether a quote is complete.
An entrepreneurial entity is deemed registered upon entry in the Registry of Entrepreneurs and Non-entrepreneurial Legal Persons; registration is carried out on application, against payment of the fee established by law, and the entity acquires legal personality from the moment of that entry.
The one-off cost lines
- Formation service fee - the provider's own work: legal drafting, name check, charter, filing, coordination. At Trustlex this is a fixed €400, with the tax registration and the Revenue Service portal set-up inside it.
- State registration fee - paid to the Public Registry; a modest fixed amount (roughly tens of euros; expedited same-day filing costs about double the standard fee).
- Notary and certified translation in Georgia - the charter, founder decision and supporting documents notarised and translated; typically in the €110 range in a standard file.
- Courier of originals - sending your notarised, apostilled Power of Attorney and passport copy to Tbilisi by tracked courier. You pay your own courier at home, like your notary and the apostille; it is not a line on the Trustlex invoice.
- Identity verification - a third-party KYC check; a small fixed cost (about €40).
| Line item | Who charges it | Typical amount |
|---|---|---|
| Formation service fee | Provider (Trustlex) | €400 fixed |
| State registration fee | Public Registry | About €70 (GEL 200); GEL 400 for same-day |
| Georgian notary and translation | Georgian notary / translator | Around €110 |
| Courier of originals | Your courier at home | Paid at home, not on the Trustlex invoice |
| Identity verification (KYC) | Third-party checker | About €40 |
Costs that happen in YOUR country (often forgotten)
- Notarisation of the Power of Attorney before your local notary - local notary rates apply.
- Apostille (Hague Convention countries) or consular legalisation - from tens to a couple of hundred euros depending on the country.
- These are paid by you locally and are not part of any Georgian provider's invoice - but they are real costs of the remote route, so budget them.
VAT - only on service fees, not on disbursements
Georgian VAT (18%) applies to the provider's service fees. Government fees, notary charges, courier and third-party checks are pass-through disbursements - an honest invoice does not add VAT on top of them. If a quote charges VAT on the state fee, ask why.
General information, not legal or tax advice. The figures here are typical ranges for a standard case in 2026, not a quote. Your final cost depends on your country, your documents and your activity.
What can only be priced after assessment
- Licensing work (crypto/VASP, payments, gaming) - scoped and quoted case by case.
- Virtual Zone or International Company status applications - depend on your substance and evidence file.
- Complex structures: corporate shareholders, multiple jurisdictions, regulated activities.
- A provider that quotes a flat price for these before seeing your case is guessing - and you will pay for the guess later.
Next step
Every line, before you pay
The point of an itemised quote is that nothing appears later. The registration page lists the service fee, the state fee, notary, translation, courier and VAT separately, and marks the lines that can only be priced after assessment.
See the itemised priceOngoing costs after registration
- Registered legal address - €120 a year for the address alone, €240 a year with mail scanning, renewed yearly; a year of it is inside the formation packages.
- Accounting and tax filings - from roughly €110 per month for a simple company, scaling with activity.
- Local secretary / contact person, mailroom, phone line - optional monthly add-ons (tens of euros each).
- Bank account opening assistance - €500 as a one-off where you want help with the file, optional beside the Starter package; the bank decides.
The ongoing lines are driven by the company's continuing obligations rather than by any provider's markup: most active Georgian companies file monthly declarations, so accounting is a recurring cost, not an annual one, and a registered legal address is a standing requirement for the entity to exist. Budget the running cost from day one, not just the setup.
Reading two quotes like a lawyer: €299 versus €692
A founder receives two offers for the same remote formation: one advertising €299 all-in, one itemising to €692. The cheap one looks like the obvious choice.
- 1Ask each provider the same question: is the state fee included, and the Georgian notary, and the translation, and the courier, and VAT on the service component?
- 2The €299 quote turns out to cover the service fee only; each remaining line surfaces later as an extra, some with a handling margin added.
- 3The €692 quote is complete: every line named, disbursements passed through at cost, VAT charged only on the service component.
- 4Total the €299 route honestly and it lands at about €692 - with the extras revealed one at a time, after commitment, when switching is expensive.
The itemised quote was cheaper, and - more importantly - it was checkable before signing. A quote you can audit line by line is worth more than a low headline, because the lines are where the money is.
Illustrative. The pattern - headline price versus complete price - is what to test in any market, including against our own quotes.
A realistic total
Where the second year's costs come from
A founder budgets carefully for formation, is pleased with the total, and is surprised by the size of year two.
- 1Formation is a one-off; the address and the accounting are not, and together they are the larger number over any period longer than a year.
- 2A month of accounting is not optional in a month with no activity: someone still has to confirm that nothing taxable happened and file the returns that stay due.
- 3Adding VAT registration, or a first employee, changes the accounting tier rather than adding a line to it.
- 4The one-off total was about €692; the second year, with an address and monthly accounting, ran to several times that without anything unusual happening.
The setup cost is the part everyone compares and the smaller part of what a company actually costs. Budget the running cost first and the formation fee second - that is the order in which the money leaves.
Illustrative ranges for a simple company; activity, VAT status and headcount move the accounting tier.
For a straightforward single-founder remote LLC on individual services - service fee, state fee, Georgian notary and translation, identity check and VAT on the service component - the one-off total is about €692 on our own itemised price list with the standard-track state fee (same-day registration adds about €70), plus the address (€120 a year) and whatever your local notary, apostille and courier cost at home. The Starter package, the formation with a year of registered address, is €520 in professional fees, an illustrative €740 with the third-party estimate (standard-track state fee) before VAT; the Virtual Zone status is an add-on in two stages (€150 for the written assessment, €450 only after a positive one). First-year running costs (address plus basic accounting) add roughly €1,400-2,000 depending on activity. Anyone quoting dramatically less is usually leaving lines out; you will meet them later as 'extras'.