Starting a business
A clean private limited incorporation runs five to seven working days from the day we have your documents. An LLP is usually ten to fifteen, and an OPC ten to fifteen. Those are honest working ranges rather than promises: a name refused at the reservation stage adds three to five days, and a registrar's office running behind adds whatever it adds. Where we know an office is slow, we say so at the quote stage instead of afterwards.
Yes. A residential address can be the registered office. You need a utility bill for the premises that is not older than two months and, if you do not own it, a no-objection letter from the owner — we provide the format. The only real constraint is that the address must be one where official correspondence can actually reach you.
All three separate your personal assets from the business. They differ in who can own them and what you can do next: a company divides ownership into shares that can be issued or transferred, an LLP divides it by an agreement the partners have to renegotiate, and an OPC is a company with a single owner and a compulsory nominee. If you expect to raise investment or issue ESOPs, the company is the only practical answer.
For any incorporation: PAN and Aadhaar for each director or partner, a recent photograph of each, and a bank statement or utility bill per person that is under two months old. For the office: the latest utility bill for the premises, plus the rent agreement and owner's NOC if it is rented. Having these to hand is what turns a two-week process into a one-week one.
Brand and tax
Yes. They are two separate registers doing two separate jobs. Registering a company name stops another company being incorporated with that name; it does nothing to stop someone else registering a similar brand name as a trademark and then objecting to your use of it. If the name is going on packaging, signage or a marketplace listing, it should be a trademark application.
It depends on two things: turnover and how you sell. Below the services threshold — ₹20 lakh in most states, ₹10 lakh in special-category states — supplying only within your own state and not through a platform, registration is generally not required. Sell through an e-commerce platform, or supply across state lines, and it becomes compulsory whatever your turnover. Many freelancers also register voluntarily because their business customers want the input credit.
The late-filing fee on AOC-4 and MGT-7 is ₹100 per day per form with no upper limit, so the cost keeps growing until it is filed — this is not a fine you can wait out. A missed director KYC deactivates the DIN, which then blocks every other filing that director has to sign, and reactivation carries its own flat fee. Three consecutive years of default disqualifies the directors for five years, across every company they sit on. It is all fixable, but it gets more expensive with every month.
Yes, and it is worth knowing. Under the 2025 amendment effective 31 March 2026, director KYC moved from an annual filing to once every three financial years, through a single OTP-authenticated web form due by 30 June of the third year. Directors who completed KYC through FY 2025-26 are next due by 30 June 2028. Any change to your mobile, email or address still has to be updated within 30 days.
Working with us
They are two separate things and we keep them separate. The government fee is set by the authority and varies by state, by authorised capital, by applicant category and by which form is being filed — it is not ours, we do not mark it up, and it is charged to you at actuals with the challan attached. Our professional fee is fixed for the agreed scope and stated in writing before you accept. We do not publish either as a headline number, because a figure that ignores your state and category is a figure you would end up arguing about later.
Almost everything is online. Incorporations, trademark filings, GST registration, IEC and the annual ROC filings are all handled on the authorities' portals, and documents can be shared digitally. The exceptions are physical: a GST officer may trigger verification of your premises, and state or central FSSAI licences generally involve an inspection. You would not have to visit us for any of it.
There are always ongoing obligations, and this is the part most people are not told about. A new company appoints its auditor within 30 days and files its commencement declaration within 180. GST brings a return cycle for as long as the registration exists. An IEC has to be confirmed on the portal every year between April and June. A trademark renews at ten years. Whatever we file for you, you receive a calendar with every date, form and fee on it — whether or not you engage us for that work.
Because a published figure in this field is a starting figure. It holds for one state, one applicant category, one capital band and one authority's schedule, and the moment your matter differs the number moves — which is where the extras come from. You get a fixed professional fee for your own matter in writing, with government fees itemised separately, before an engagement letter exists.
One named professional, assigned by discipline rather than by queue, and you are told who it is before the engagement letter. An incorporation goes to the Company Secretary; a trademark objection to the Advocate; a tax question brings the Chartered Accountant in — and when that happens we tell you why. You will not repeat your situation to a different coordinator each time you call.