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Business licence

Jersey’s permission to run a business and to employ people, under the Control of Housing and Work Law.

What it is

Most businesses need one; a company applies once incorporated. It takes about five working days, and starts your Social Security call, your employer registration and your manpower returns.

What it is not

Not the certificate of incorporation, and not needed where nobody is paid at all — or where a company has a single member working under eight hours a week, with the right residential status.