Buying a Mauritian company, and the Investor Occupation Permit

The permit, in one paragraph

The Occupation Permit is a combined work and residence permit. The Investor category is the one that matters when you acquire a company. You apply as a shareholder who is also a director of a Mauritius-incorporated company.

It runs up to ten years and is renewable against turnover criteria. Your spouse and children may hold dependent permits for no longer than yours, and a dependent permit does not allow your spouse to work.

The money threshold, and the disagreement in it

The Economic Development Board's most recent published figure for the Investor category is an initial investment of USD 100,000. Pages that are still online from 2020 onward, and several advisers writing in 2025 and 2026, quote USD 50,000.

We cannot resolve that from the outside and we will not pretend to. Before you commit to anything, put the figure to the Economic Development Board directly and get it in writing.

Buying an existing company instead of transferring cash

This is the part that concerns anyone reading a Blue Mango Listing. Where you acquire an existing business rather than incorporating a new one, the test is reported to shift.

It moves from a fresh cash transfer to the company's own figures. Those are a net asset value from USD 50,000, and cumulative turnover of at least Rs 12M. The turnover is counted over the three years before the application.

Two Mauritian professional firms state that test in those terms. We did not find it written on an official page. Treat the shape as reliable and the exact figures as unconfirmed until the Economic Development Board confirms them.

That threshold is why the Blue Mango admission bar starts at turnover of Rs 12M. A company below it may be an excellent company and a poor route to a permit.

Renewal turnover, as the official pages state it

The permit is not granted once and forgotten. The published renewal criteria are turnover figures the company must reach as it matures.

Four things foreign buyers get wrong

• Tax residency is a day count, not a permit. The test is 183 days in the income year, or 270 days across two preceding years.
• Mauritius charges no capital gains tax on a share sale, which mostly helps the seller and shapes what he will accept.
• Permits are not transferable. Foreign staff hold permits tied to their own employment, and the Economic Development Board expects to be told about a change of ownership.
• A Professional permit holder or a retired resident may buy into a business, but not manage it. Drawing a salary requires a change of category.

How to read a Mauritian company from 9,000 km away

You cannot visit the workshop this week, so you are reading documents and hoping they are real. Two things are checkable from anywhere: the BRN against the Registrar's public search, and accounts prepared by a named accountant.

Every Blue Mango Listing goes through that check before it is published. The page shows what was checked, against what, and on what date. It also marks which figures are only the seller's word, and no company name appears until he releases it to you.

What this page is not

Blue Mango is a marketplace, not an immigration adviser. Nothing here is legal, tax or immigration advice, and permit decisions are the Economic Development Board's and the Passport and Immigration Office's alone.

Where a figure on this page carries a caveat, that caveat is the point. Ask the Economic Development Board, and ask a Mauritian adviser to hold your hand through the acquisition itself.

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