JCA BOOKKEEPING SERVICE (JCABS), an accounting firm and business registration provider and conveniently located at the Lapu-lapu City was organized on November 29, 2008, with the basic intent to provide quality and accurate service through its clients and prospective clients.

JCABS will help you assess your future business in the Philippines and determine the best business incorporation procedure and investment vehicle for you and your company in either Cebu, Tacloban, Bohol & Dumaguete, Philippines. We will assist you in business incorporation procedures, planning and business registration with relevant agencies, such as the Philippines SEC, DTI, BIR and other pertinent government agencies in the Philippines. Incentives such as income tax holidays and special tax regimes are also available to foreign companies who invest in activities that significantly contribute to national industrialization and socio-economic development, and in export-oriented enterprises. However, these businesses must first comply with the requirements set by the government. Eligible businesses may then incorporate their company with other government agencies in the Philippines, such as PEZA  and BOI.

JCABS offers to fill-in the basic needs of companies for a quick and accurate quality services to serve primarily for the businessman who are just starting their business and wanted to start it right. It also offers a Bookkeeping services, taxes, construction of accounting procedure and control, licensing services for DTI/SEC, BIR, Mayors Permit Processingwho wants to run their business here in Cebu and other related services, manned by competent owner with more than ten (10) years of experience in accounting and have gained expertise in her respective field of specialization

JCABS will assist to determine the type of company to incorporate in Metro-Manila, Subic, Clark or Cebu, Philippines:

• Fully foreign owned Branch Office
• Fully foreign owned Representative Office
• Fully foreign owned domestic corporation (subsidiary)
• 60/40 owned domestic corporation

JCABS will perform the following for foreign, outsourcing and BPO companies:

• Determine company formation
• Determine Capital Requirement for Incorporation
• Open local bank account
• Register (incorporate company) and secure company name with SEC or DTI
• Identify Shareholders, Directors, Nominees and Incorporators
• Draft Articles of Incorporation and By-Laws
• Process documents with SEC, BOI, PEZA, BIR, SSS, etc
• Process Mayor's Permit and Business Permit

The failure of a foreign corporation to obtain a license to do business will bar the entity from filing suit in Philippine courts. The issuance of a certificate of incorporation from the SEC signifies the commencement of corporate existence and juridical personality of a particular company. Before commencing operations in the Philippines, businesses must also register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the Social Security System (SSS), the Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF), the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Phil-Health) , and the local government unit where its principal office will be located.

Visas & Immigration Services in the Philippines

Foreigners or non-Philippine nationals coming to the Philippines as tourists, employees, for medical attention, investors or retirees must comply with Philippine Immigration Law which is enforced by the Philippine Bureau of Immigration. JCABS will assist individuals and local and foreign companies' employees with obtaining visas and work permits with the Philippines Bureau of Immigration and the Department of Labor and Employment.

We will perform the following services:

• Determine appropriate type of Visa (Investor, Working, Permanent)
• Process all documents with Bureau of Immigration (BI)
• Process all documents with Department of Labor & Employment (DOLE

If you will not be relocating to the Philippines and wish to stay in the Philippines longer than 21 days you will most likely be required to obtain a non-immigrant (temporary) visa. Generally non-immigrant visas are issued for travel to the Philippines for a specific purpose and for a set duration. Aliens entering the Philippines may qualify for the following visa categories:

Aliens admitted as nonimmigrants cannot remain in the Philippines permanently. To obtain permanent admission, a nonimmigrant alien must depart voluntarily to a foreign country and must, with the exception of foreigners faling under the visa waiver program, procure from the appropriate Philippine consul the proper visa and thereafter undergo examination by the officers of the Bureau of Immigration at a Philippine port of entry for determination of his admissibility in accordance with the requirements.