Setting Up a Business in Macao

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Macao market — a small special administrative region whose economy remains genuinely concentrated around gaming and tourism, with company law distinct from mainland China and a currency, tax, and legal framework of its own.
This guide covers legal structures, business taxation, company formation, the cost of labor, and immigration routes for executives, investors, and entrepreneurs. Includes a dedicated chapter on Macao’s own history and “one country, two systems” status (guaranteed until 2049), its currency mechanics (the pataca, pegged to the Hong Kong dollar since 1983), and an unflinching account of the gaming sector’s over-90% share of GDP alongside genuine, current diversification efforts, including a new investment fund law. General commercial activity is covered; gaming operations, under a separate concession regime, are explicitly out of scope. An operational checklist and useful contacts round out the guide.
Available in English and Portuguese.