Close a company or business name (strike off)
Business Registration Service · sources read 30 Sep 2026
To close a business name, apply for cessation on BRS eCitizen, upload the signed BN 6 form and pay KSh 250. To close a company, the directors apply to strike it off with forms CR 18 and CR 19; BRS gazettes a notice and strikes it off at least 3 months later.
- Fee
- KSh 250Close a business name (cessation)
- How long
- Company: at least 3 months after the Kenya Gazette notice
- Where
- Online on the BRS portal on eCitizen
What you need
- Business name: Form BN 6, signed, scanned and uploaded
- Company: Form CR 18 (application to be struck off), signed by the director(s)
- Company: the company resolution on Form CR 19
Steps
- Business name: log in to brsv2.ecitizen.go.ke with your personal account, open Businesses, pick the business, click Maintain and choose Cessation of Business Name.
- Choose closure, then download Form BN 6, sign it, scan and upload it, and pay KSh 250 to submit for review.
- Company: the directors sign Form CR 18 with the CR 19 resolution, then one director lodges it on eCitizen and pays the fee.
- Within 7 days, send a copy to the shareholders, creditors, employees, pension fund trustees and any director who did not sign.
- BRS publishes a notice in the Kenya Gazette. If no one objects, the company is struck off at least 3 months later and dissolved by a further notice.
Watch out
- A company can't apply if it traded, changed its name or sold trading stock in the last 3 months.
- Bring all your statutory filings up to date before you apply.
- Once the company is dissolved its bank account is frozen and any money left goes to the State, so clear the account first.
Who can apply
- Business name: the owner(s), when they decide to stop the business.
- Company: one that is dormant or no longer trading and has no assets or debts, or whose shareholders no longer want it.
- Only the company can apply, through its directors (or a majority of them).
Official sources (4)
- Step by Step Guide: Cessation & Conversion of Business Name brs.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026
- PN/06: Voluntary Strike Off, Dissolution & Restoration (2025) brs.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026
- Services Available on BRS Version 2 brs.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026
- BRS Version 2 on eCitizen brsv2.ecitizen.go.ke · read 30 Sep 2026