Sri Lanka Business Name Registration Fee Calculator

Registering a business name in Sri Lanka is a devolved, provincial function under List I of the Ninth Schedule to the Constitution (the 13th Amendment). Each Provincial Council runs its own Business Names registry and gazettes its own charges, so there is no single national fee. This calculator uses the published schedule of the Western Province Department of Provincial Business Name Registration, which is the busiest registry (Colombo and Gampaha) and the one with clearly published figures.

For an individual (sole proprietor), the registration fee is a step function of the initial capital you declare on the application:

• Up to Rs 299,999 : Rs 1,500
• Rs 300,000 – Rs 499,999 : Rs 2,500
• Rs 500,000 and above : Rs 3,500

The band boundaries are inclusive whole-rupee amounts, so Rs 299,999 sits in the first band and Rs 300,000 tips into the second. The tool floors fractional rupees and treats empty, negative, or non-numeric capital as zero, which places it in the lowest band. Two optional service charges from the same schedule can be added: a document pre-check at the counter (Rs 500) and a certified copy of the certificate (Rs 1,500). Your total payable is the band base fee plus any add-ons you tick:

total = band fee + Σ(selected service charges)

To keep the figures honest, the calculator derives the base fee two ways — an array walk over the band table and an independent step formula — and only shows the “verified by two derivations” check when both agree. Partnership (joint) registration is deliberately not costed: it uses a different application form and the published page lists no partnership fee, so the tool flags it and asks you to confirm the joint fee with the department rather than inventing a number. For provinces other than Western, the same schedule is shown as an indicative estimate with a clear prompt to verify locally, because each province gazettes its own charges. Under the Western Provincial Statute No. 05 of 2011 you must register within 14 days (and no later than 30 days) of starting the business, and the certificate is usually issued in 3–7 working days.

• WP Dept. of Provincial Business Name Registration — charges schedule
• WP Dept. of Provincial Business Name Registration — instructions & documents
• 13th Amendment to the Constitution — devolution of Business Names to Provincial Councils

The capital-band fees (Rs 1,500 / Rs 2,500 / Rs 3,500) and service charges on this page were last cross-checked against the Western Province charges schedule on 2026-07-05. Provincial charges are gazetted and can change; confirm the current fee with your Provincial Council or Divisional Secretariat before you pay.