Services

1. The nationatily of the capital: National/Foreign
2. Economic activity 
3. Investment scope: Number of employment, approximate amount, term of execution , etc.

This registration allows the CNI to issue:

1. Certificate of investor (Natural and Legal person)
2. Investment Certificate (Investment Project)

This documentation not only allows you to access and streamline immigration procedures, but also facilitates the requests of the Acceleration and Protection Services offered by the CNI.

Requirements:

Investor’s record:

1. Application addressed to the National Investment Council, containing the data of the investor, data of the legal representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, and amount of these.
2. Power of Attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry (RTN) of the investor, (Comerciante Individual o Sociedad Mercantil).
4. General Balance of the last year.
5. Current Business Operation Permit, given by the Municipality where the business is located.
6. Affidavit duly authenticated in which it is proven that the documents and the amount of the investment are true.
7. Copy of the Deed of Constitution of the Company or Individual trader.
8. Copy of  the valid attorney’s license.
9. Make a deposit to the following account #11102-02-000020-7 at the Central Bank of Honduras to Consejo Nacional de Inversiones (CNI) for L. 200.00 (two hundred lempiras), before your record is issued.

NOTE: All the document’s copy must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authenticity.

It is a declared benefit for the Executive Power granted to individuals and legal entities that execute or develop projects in regions of priority interest, this regime grants the benefits related to pre-operational expenses and accelerated depreciation.

Benefits:

Amoritzation of pre-operational expenses paid or incurred for a period of up to five (5) years according to the Income Tax Law and its regulations such as:

1. Expenses that have been incurred in research and development of commercial and/or patentable productos for commercial purposes at a national or international level.
2. The amounts granted as a donation to universities, educational institutions in Honduras and research centers.
3. Expenses caused by the registration of trademarks and patents in Honduras.
4. Expenses incurred in research and opening new markets nationally and internationally, and the promotion of their products during the first fice (5) years, which may be accredited.

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Photocopy of permits and licenses (Construction permit, Environmental License, payment of taxes on real estate and special permits).
5. Executive Decreein which it is agreed that it is a Project of National Interest.

NOTE: All the document’s copy must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authenticity.

It is a benefit, declared by the President of the Republic, which is granted to natural and legal persons who carry out an investment project of great magnitude for the State, this Declaration of National Interest will meet the criteria established by the National Investment Council.

Benefits:

1. Issuance through an Executive Decree of a CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND VIABILITY OF OPERATION that includes all types of investment in question, required by the applicable Honduran legislation.
2. When obtaining the certificate, the competent state authorities will not require any other requirement or legal accreditation, leaving the beneficiary qualifiend to start operating. 

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Copy of identity document or passport.
5. Document of incorporation of a commercial company or individual merchant.
6. Feasibility, technical, financial and economic studies.

NOTE: All the document’s copy must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authenticity.

Mechanism by which the State guarantees the conclusion of a project carried out in a property dispute.

Benefits:

1. Guarantee of the continuity of the project through the constitution of an administration trust.
2. The recovery of investments made.
3. The sale or lease of the of the units built or under construction.
4. That the judicial or administrative action filed by a third party to resolve its claim on the property be resolved by an arbitration center of any of the country’s chambers of commerce.

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Photocopy of permits and licenses (Construction permit, Environmental license, payment of taxes on real estate and special permits).
5. Proof of Financing by means of a bank note of approval of any credit line of credit.
6. Document proving the start of the construction of the project.
7. Prove the notification of the lawsuit filed by the third party about de property in dispute.

NOTE: All the document’s copy must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authenticity.

It is a commitment between the State and one or more private investors in which the laws regarding fiscal, state and municipal matter, which will govern a particular investment for a determined period of time and that constitutes a law between the parties are stated.

Benefits:

1. The non-increase of taxes in the tax system or in the municipal regime. 
2. The non-imposition of new taxes in the same regimes.
3. Duration of the benefit of fifteen (15) years as a general rule.

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Copy of identity document or passport.
5. Document of incorporation of a commercial company or individual merchant.
6. Feasibility, technical, financial and economic studies.
7. Accredit the origin of the funds to invest (bank certificate).
8. Schedules of activities and investments to be made.
9. Study of economic and social impact.
10. The economic-financial model in which the amounts to be paid physically are estimated.
11. Letter of commitment as an Affidavit ensuring the accuracy of the information.

NOTE: All the document’s copies must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authencity. 

It is the mechanism through which the President of the Republic in the Council of Ministers declares a private investment project as a Project of National Interest, provided that any of the circumstances established in the regulations to the Law of Promotion and Protection of Investments. 

Benefits: 

1. Issuance through an Executive Decree of a CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND VIABILITY OF OPERATION that includes all the permits required for the type of investment in question, required by the applicable Honduran legislation.
2. Upon obtaining the certificate, the competent state authorities will not require any other requirement or legal accreditation, leaving the beneficiary qualified to start operating.

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Copy of identity document or passport.
5. Document of Incorporation of a company or Individual Trade Merchant.
6. Documents in which at least one of the following criteria is accredited:
   1. The exploitation of idle assets of renewable and non-renewable natural resources.
   2. Commitment to invest no less than 5% of their gross income in social programs. 
   3. Document that proves that the project is located in an area with a low level of human development. 
   4. Document that proves that the project has the potential to generate more than 10 million dollars a year in revenue for the State. 
   5. That the project can be oriented to the construction of infrastructure damaged by natural disasters without having declared an emergency.
   6. That it is a project that causes social impact: education, security, social housing and health. 

NOTE: All the document’s copies must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authencity. 

Procedure that allows natural or legal persons interested in developing projects on real estate or developing investment activities on real estate, preventing conflicts over them, extinguishing the possible property rights of people who are not possessing them. 

Benefits:

1. Two years of protection to make the investment.
2. There is no extension limit in the real estate to grant protection.
3. The prevention of conflicts under the extinction of the extinction of the possible property rights that non possessing third parties may have over the property.
4. Upon the expiration of property rights, no third party claiming to have property rights over the property may file claims for ownership of the property, or claim, or acquire any real right over it.

Requirements:

1. Application addresed to the National Investment Council (NIC), containing the data of the investor, data of the Legal Representative, brief description of the investment made or to be made, investment sector, duration of project, amount of investment, location of the project, generation of the employment and sales projection. Corporate Social Responsability (CSR) and community development. Indicate if you want to trust to be constituted or that it be resolved through arbitration in the Chambers of Commerce.
2. Power of attorney duly authenticated.
3. National Tax Registry of the investor (Individual Merchant or Mercantile Company).
4. Document providing the uninterrupted possession of the property: Certification of the Property Institute stating that it is free from litigation.
5. Receipt of payment of Real Estate and Municipal Solvency, issued by the Municipality of the Jurisdiction of Real Estate.
6. Public Deed duly registered with the Property Institute with which the ownership of the real estate is accredited.
7. Assessed the Real Estate prepared by an appraiser registered with the National Commission of Banks and Insurance (CNBS).

NOTE: All the document’s copy must be duly authenticated. The signature of the Power of Attorney and the Affidavit must be made in a different certificate of authenticity.