Guide · Armenia
Someone sent you an invoice, a contract, a "certificate of registration" or an investment offer from a company in Armenia. Ten minutes with the free state register and a few public lists will tell you whether the company exists, whether it matches the paper in front of you, who declared themselves as its owners, and whether it shows any sign of real trade. This guide is the order to do it in.
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Start here
Every Armenian company has a taxpayer identification number, ՀՎՀՀ (HVHH, sometimes written TIN or VAT number on English invoices). The State Revenue Committee describes it plainly: it "consists of 8 digits; no other symbols could be used", the first seven are a serial number and the eighth is a check digit, and the numbers carry no meaning. It is issued at registration by the State Register (for commercial banks, by the Central Bank), it never changes, and it is not reissued after a company is liquidated (SRC's TIN sheet at the OECD, read 13 Sep 2026).
So the first test costs nothing: count the digits. Ameriabank's tax ID is 02560453; Ucom's is 00024873. Leading zeros are part of the number. Anything with letters, dashes, nine digits or a country prefix is not an Armenian tax ID as printed by the register, however official the document looks. The SRC does not publish how the check digit is calculated, so do not trust a "validator" website; the register is the validator.
Do not confuse it with the two other numbers on an Armenian company card: the registration number (format 211.190.00190, the state register's serial) and the unique identifier (8 digits, used in the register website's addresses). Our beneficial-owners guide explains all three.
Step one
The State Register of Legal Entities, run by the Ministry of Justice, is free, in English, and needs no account for searching. As of 13 Sep 2026 its search box resolves an exact tax ID and a registration number, not only a name.
/en/ in the address sets English; /hy/ and /ru/ exist too.02560453 returns AMERIABANK. A fragment returns nothing (seven digits of the same number gave 0 results when we tried), so a typo looks exactly like a company that does not exist. Check the digits before you conclude anything.Read live on 13 Sep 2026 for a well-known telecom operator. The address on the card is in Armenian script even on the English page; do not expect it to match an English letterhead word for word. The register's own FAQ adds the caveat that frames everything else: "The Agency does not verify the accuracy of the submitted information"; the applicant answers for it (e-register.moj.am FAQ, read 13 Sep 2026). A card proves the company is registered and what it filed, not that the people behind it are honest.
Step two
A forged registration certificate rarely survives a field-by-field comparison with the official record: forgers either borrow a real company and change details, or invent a company and a number. Each line below is a mismatch we would stop at.
211.190.00190) and identical to the card, dots included.Step three
Declared beneficial owners, free. On the card, "Company BOR declarations" lists each beneficial-ownership declaration with its filing time. Every legal entity must file one within 40 days of registration and within 40 days of a change, and confirm or update it every year by 20 February; the obligation was phased in from September 2021 and covered all legal entities, including LLCs owned only by individuals, from 1 January 2023 (MB Legal; Armenian Lawyer, 18 Feb 2026; both law firms, secondary). The Ucom card above fits the pattern, with a declaration filed every February since 2023. A company with no declaration at all, years after registration, is a question to ask. Our beneficial-owners guide covers how to read one and what "ground 3" means.
The extract, AMD 3,000. Founders and participants, the director, the charter and legal succession are in the "Company information request" service: extract plus articles of association, AMD 3,000, issued immediately, ordered online with the national ID login; the service page lists Armenian citizens as eligible applicants (service page, read 13 Sep 2026). Non-citizens without that login need someone in Armenia to order it or to ask the Agency directly; we could not confirm an in-person fee.
Not recorded at all. The register records participants only for limited liability companies. Its FAQ states that "the Agency does not maintain the registry of joint-stock companies" and does not record members of commercial cooperatives (FAQ). For a CJSC or OJSC, the declarations are the only ownership view the register offers.
Step four
Registration costs little and proves little. These public sources, keyed by the same tax ID, show whether a company does business with the state, pays tax at scale, or holds the licence its offer would need.
Before you pay
The honest map
| Question | Source | Cost | Key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does it exist, is it winding up | e-register.moj.am card | free | tax ID, reg. number or name |
| Official registration or liquidation certificate | register service, 3 days | free, ID login | company |
| Declared beneficial owners | BOR declarations on the card | free, if filed | card |
| Founders, participants, director, charter | company information request | AMD 3,000 | company |
| Shareholders of a joint-stock company | not in the register | not public here | n/a |
| State contracts | armeps.am PPCM | free | tax ID |
| Known to the tax authority | src.am taxpayer search | free, captcha | tax ID or name |
| Financial licence, warnings | cba.am lists | free | name |
| Revenue, accounts, bank details, court cases | not in these sources | not public here | n/a |
At scale
For one company, the steps above take ten minutes. For a supplier list or an AI agent, Reestri runs the register and procurement checks as pay-per-lookup tools on Apify. I built it and I sell it; no subscription, and Apify's free monthly credit covers first runs.
What they return, and no more: from the register, status, registration number and date, tax ID, address and the declared beneficial owners parsed from the declarations, with a source URL, timestamp and content hash per record. A tax ID passed as the query resolves the same way it does in the register's search box. From PPCM, the contracts that carry that exact tax ID, with buyer, value, date and procedure. They do not order the AMD 3,000 extract, do not query the tax service or the Central Bank lists, and drop owners' home addresses.
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Disclosure: sold by the author of this guide. $15 covers one company in one country; $35 checks Georgia and Armenia, with Armenia's declared owners and public contracts; $90 adds the official Georgian extract with founders and shares and takes two days. Reports cover Georgian and Armenian companies only. Everything in them comes from the public sources this page describes, which you can read yourself for free.
Sources
Where the declarations sit, how to read one, what a ground 3 owner is, why a missing declaration proves nothing, and the procurement history behind the same tax ID.
NAPR's own English version for 26 GEL extra, the apostille at 30 to 150 GEL, and when you still need a translation.