Setting Up a Business in Trinidad and Tobago

An in-depth guide for foreign entrepreneurs and companies looking to enter the Trinidad and Tobago market — the Caribbean’s energy and industrial anchor, with an economy genuinely built around oil, gas, and petrochemicals.
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 the country’s real economic substance in energy and industry, followed by a fully dedicated, honest chapter on governance and transparency — covering the FATF grey-list period (2017-2020, during which Trinidad and Tobago became the first CFATF member to exit) and its more recent removal from the EU’s non-cooperative tax jurisdictions list in February 2026, just months before this guide was written. An operational checklist and useful contacts round out the guide.
Available in English.