Keep the company in good standing, month after month.
Compliance in Chile rarely fails dramatically. It drifts — a calendar nobody owns, a rule that changed while no one was reading, a corporate record that stopped matching reality. We hold the calendar, watch what changes, and tell you what it means for your operation.
Three clocks start the day the company exists.
None of them wait for the operation to be ready, and none of them stop because the Chilean company is small or because it only invoices its own parent.
Corporate
Shareholder decisions, the company’s own books and registries, amendments to the bylaws, and the powers held by whoever can bind the company. The record has to stay accurate, because it is what a bank, an auditor or a buyer reads to establish who may sign.
Labour
Employment contracts and their amendments, the documentation the labour authority can ask to see, and the obligations that appear as the team grows rather than at the moment you hire the first person.
Tax and accounting
Monthly filings from the month the company exists and annual returns after that, supported by bookkeeping that actually reconciles. Handled by the Chilean accountants we work with and coordinated with the legal side, so it is one conversation rather than three.
Compliance is rarely lost. It is mislaid.
When something goes wrong in a foreign-owned Chilean company, it is usually one of these three, and all three are quiet until the day somebody asks for the file.
Nobody owns the calendar
Head office assumes the local accountant has it. The accountant has the tax dates and assumes a lawyer has the corporate ones. The corporate side is the one that lapses, because it has no monthly rhythm to make its absence obvious.
The rules move
Chile legislates actively in labour and tax. The reduction of the working week is a plain example: passed in 2023, it lands in steps and is still landing. Planning against the rule in force today, rather than the one that will apply, is how a headcount or delivery plan quietly stops being realistic.
The record stops matching reality
Powers still held by someone who left the group. A legal representative who moved on. Bylaws describing a business the company no longer runs. None of it causes a problem until a bank, a counterparty or a purchaser asks, and then it causes the problem at the worst possible moment.
What we hold on your behalf.
The point of the retainer is not that compliance becomes somebody else’s job. It is that one person is accountable for the calendar, and that you hear about a change before it costs you something.
A calendar with an owner
Corporate, labour and tax dates in one place, with the reminders landing before the deadline rather than after it, and a single person you can ask whether something is pending.
Corporate housekeeping
Books and registries kept current, shareholder decisions properly recorded, bylaw amendments when the business changes, and powers reviewed so the people who can sign are the people you meant.
Labour support
The questions that come up week to week, contract amendments, and the obligations that appear as headcount grows — flagged when you cross the line rather than when somebody inspects.
Change monitoring
What changed in Chilean labour, corporate and tax law, whether it affects your operation, and what to do about it — in plain language, not a newsletter of everything that happened.
Most companies reach us with an entity already running.
For those, we start with a review rather than a retainer: what the company owes, what is current, what has lapsed and what it would take to put right — ranked, with the exposure stated in plain language and a fixed fee for each fix. You decide what to repair and what to leave. Plenty of companies take the review and handle the rest themselves, and that is a legitimate outcome.
What companies ask about this one.
We already have an accountant in Chile. Do we need this as well?
Possibly not, and we will tell you if that is the case. Accountants cover bookkeeping and tax filings, which is the part with a monthly rhythm. What usually sits with nobody is the corporate side — books, powers, amendments — and reading what changed in the law. Where your accountant already covers those, say so on the call and we will scope around it.
Can you take over a company that has been running for years?
Yes, and that is the common case. It starts with the review rather than with a retainer, because neither of us can usefully commit to a monthly scope before we know what state the company is in.
What happens if the review finds something wrong?
You get told what it is, what the exposure looks like and what it costs to fix, ranked so you can decide. Repairs are quoted separately and are yours to approve one by one. Finding a problem does not oblige you to fix it through us.
Do we need this if our people are employed through your EOR?
Not for those people. Under an employer of record we are the legal employer and we carry the employment obligations. The retainer becomes relevant once you have your own Chilean company, because that is when the corporate and tax clocks start running in your name.
How is it priced?
A monthly retainer scaled to the size of the operation, fixed and agreed in writing. Work outside the scope — a restructuring, a dispute, a transaction — is quoted separately before it starts. The first conversation costs nothing.
Who actually does the work?
A Chilean-licensed attorney, with the accountants we work with on the tax and bookkeeping side. Nothing is routed through a platform, and you are not handed to a different person each month.
Tell us what state the company is in.
If you are not sure, that is the usual answer and it is a fine place to start. A short call is enough to tell you whether you need a review, a retainer, or neither yet. The first conversation is free, and you will hear back within one business day.
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