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Philippine corporations are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission and, since the 2019 Revised Corporation Code, live forever by default and can even have a single stockholder. A DTI-registered trade name, by contrast, is just a sole proprietor's label. Order the official record for any Philippine corporation in minutes.
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The Philippines splits business identity across agencies: SEC for corporations and partnerships, DTI for sole-proprietor trade names, BIR for tax identity, local government for permits. Verification anchors on the SEC-registered record — the legal person — and treats the rest as supporting layers. Name mismatches between the brand, the BIR invoice and the SEC record are the standard finding.
Status matters too: the SEC suspends and revokes registrations of corporations that ignore reporting duties, and a revoked corporation may keep trading informally.
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SEC registration creates corporations and partnerships — legal persons. DTI merely registers business names for sole proprietors. A counterparty waving a DTI certificate is an individual trading under a style, not a corporation — one of the most common Philippine verification surprises.
Corporate term became perpetual by default, the one person corporation arrived, and incorporation loosened (no minimum number of five incorporators anymore). Young single-stockholder corporations are now perfectly regular.
The corporation's registered name, SEC registration number and date, status and registered details as published. Annual reportorial compliance — the GIS regime — determines whether a corporation stays in good standing.
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