Practically Speaking: Providing listeners with practical advice and insights on issues applicable to stakeholders in the BVI. Transactional Partner Rachel Graham and Director of Client Services Amy Roost host this Practically Speaking podcast. We hope the series will interest directors, shareholders, trustees and others concerned with BVI entities. Each episode is brought to you by Harneys Fiduciary.
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Practically Speaking: Providing listeners with practical advice and insights on issues applicable to stakeholders in the BVI. Transactional Partner Rachel Graham and Director of Client Services Amy Roost host this Practically Speaking podcast. We hope the series will interest directors, shareholders, trustees and others concerned with BVI entities. Each episode is brought to you by Harneys Fiduciary.
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December 18, 2025
Key BVI reporting changes to be aware of in 2025 and early 2026
<h3>In this episode, our BVI Managing Director of Client Services, Amy Roost and Rachel Graham, managing partner from our strategic alliance partner, Harneys law firm discuss the key reporting and compliance changes affecting British Virgin Islands companies during 2025 and into early 2026, including updated requirements for annual financial returns and beneficial ownership filings.</h3>
December 1, 2022
Important information relating to the UK’s Register of Overseas Entities
<p>In this episode, Partner Rachel Graham and Managing Director of Client Services Amy Roost, along with guest expert Sonia Dhesi, Owner and Managing Director of Appleton Company Services Limited, provide key information in relation to the newly implemented Overseas Entity register.</p><p><strong>Key takeaways</strong></p><ul><li>Any non-UK entity, which holds land in the UK, needs to register as an Overseas Entity at Companies House. </li><li>The deadline for registration is 31 January 2023. </li><li>There are significant penalties (£2500 per day) for failure to register before the deadline, and restrictions are imposed on the ability to acquire and transfer land. </li><li>If you have not already begun the registration process, do so urgently. </li><li>Where an entity held land on or after 28 February 2022 but disposed of it before 5 September 2022, it will likely still need to register with Companies House. </li><li>As part of the registration process, the entity will need to identify its registrable beneficial owners – in simple terms, anyone holding at least 25 per cent of the shares or voting rights in the entity or with significant control of the entity (where there is a trust involved in the ownership structure the process can be quite complicated). </li><li>Seek advice if you need help determining which registrable beneficial owners should be identified and verified.</li><li>Current certified proof of identity and address will need to be presented to a UK verification agent to complete the process. </li><li>We can assist with the registration and verification process via an authorised agent in the UK, where we are the registered agent of an entity. </li><li>Once registered, there is an annual renewal obligation. </li></ul><br/>
November 24, 2022
Director names publicly available from 1 January 2023
<h3>As part of the BVI’s commitment to the FATF Recommendations on the availability of basic company information via a company registry, from 1 January 2023, the names of directors of BVI companies will be made available by the Registry of Corporate Affairs in the BVI (<strong>the Registry</strong>) for payment of a fee.</h3><p><strong>What we know so far:</strong></p><ul><li>A list of directors will be available via the Registry on payment of a fee of US$75</li><li>If a BVI service provider is approached to obtain the information from the Registry, it is likely they will charge an additional fee </li><li>The information available will be limited to the names of current directors - other personal information such as dates of birth and addresses will not be included</li><li>The details of any former directors will not be available</li><li>It will only be possible to request a list of directors of a particular entity – it will NOT be possible to request a list of entities which a particular person is a director of</li></ul><br/><p><strong>What do you need to do?</strong></p><p>While we are not yet clear on the exact mechanism for the provision of the list of directors by the Registry it is important that you are aware that the Registry will make available, on request and payment of a fee, the names of the directors as at the date of the search.</p><p>Take action now to check your register of directors to ensure the copy held by your registered agent is up to date. Harneys Fiduciary clients can log on to the Harneys Connect Portal to check.</p><p>We recognise that some clients may have legitimate concerns about their director names being public, and we would be happy to discuss those with you.</p><p>If any changes need to be made to the register of directors, please contact your usual Harneys contact urgently to ensure there is time for the registered agent to file the necessary update at the Registry before the 1 January 2023 effective date.</p>
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