Within our Foreign Trade page, our Non Resident companies may establish their offshore structure, regardless the administrative one of their origin country.

Foreign Trade is the natural channel for the export-import companies that may take the advantage of legal and financial scenarios that have placed Uruguay as an effective place to establish an offshore operative financial centre.

Operative Management
In Gap Consultores we provide, besides financial advice and Financial Structure, an operative platform to deal with all documentary commercial operations.
We also arrange the local or international legal structure that applies to your business.  We take care of all bank dealing in Uruguay and overseas, that will be used to deal, manage, administrate and control in the most efficient way balance of funds generated from such transactions.

In this web page you will find the following information:

»    Services
»    Non resident companies
»    Benefits.
»    Companies that may take advantage of such benefits.
»    Uruguay: Offshore Financial Centre of the region.

Services
Our Foreign Trade Services include:

• Advice and create the most appropriate legal structure to develop.
• Tax advice.
• Administration of societies.
• Financial advice and structure of Foreign Trade Operations.
• Deal all the Commercial development of the society.
  
• Advise on bank and services conditions offered in Uruguay.
• Negotiate with banks best conditions for services.
• Report of commercial operations pending of collection.
• Centralize all documentation and correspondence of the society (statement of account, commercial contracts, etc.).
• Centralize communications process with foreign purveyors/clients.
• Advice on commercial contracts and their issue under local or foreign regulations.onales.
  

Non Resident Companies
Uruguay has a wide tradition as an off-shore international centre, mainly in Foreign Trade transaction intermediation by non resident companies.
Our professionals have expertise to advice in all implementation stages of an offshore centre considering all the aspects concerning to such activity:  tax, fiscal, financial, commercial.


Benefits
Establishing an offshore company in Uruguay with us, will provide you with the following benefits:

• Elimination or reduction on fiscal charges on freight, insurance and any other overseas payment subjected to a with holding tax (tax payment by retention on funds to be transferred abroad).
• Reduction of Administration Expenses acquiring the services of Gap Consultores.
• Sundry Currency Exchange Operations at no cost (for example, import of DM and exports of USD).
• More flexibility in commercial negotiations,

Which companies may have these benefits?
Our experience has shown that the main beneficiaries of an Operative Financial Centre in Uruguay are the ones related to the Foreign Trade Area, with the following characteristics:

• Companies facing restrictions of:

Country Risk, Taxes, Dividends payment, investment limitations, lack of financial resources, commercial troubled issues and domestic regulations for incoming (export) and outgoing (import) of currencies.

• Companies that are in the process of regionalization of their administrative structure in different countries, increasing the control on foreign exchange funds and cash within affiliated companies..