Being an entity with separate legal existence, a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) needs to maintain its active status by regularly filing with Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA). Whether having business in crores or no business, annual compliance filing is mandatory for LLP. Legal compliance of LLP needed to file two separate forms, one of which for annual return, where as another one is for Statement of Accounts and Solvency. With the filing of the above two forms, a LLP reports the activities and financial data for each financial year in the upcoming year. A penalty of Rs. 100 each day till the date of actual filing will be imposed to the LLP, which fails to file the compliance on or before due date.
Compliance of law is the primary requirement for any business. The annual filing date of any LLP is displayed on the Master Data at Ministry of Corporate Affair’s portal. The regularity in compliances is a major criterion to measure the credibility of a company when comes to the events such as Government Tenders or Bank Loan Approval.
While enter in to contract or major projects, the companies/individuals may inspect the financial worth of the firm. They may ask for the returns docs directly to the firm or anyone can access it from the portal of Ministry of Corporate Affairs, hence a proper annual filing report will enhance the financial worth of a LLC.
Heavy penalties will be charged to the LLP fails in filing the returns continuously and the status of the company turned to default. It may cause the company to be declared as defunct or removed from the RoC. The partners associated with the business will get disqualified and barred from their future appointments in LLP or company. The delay in filing may attract an additional penalty of Rs. 100 for each day of delay till the date of filing.
Annual filing is essential for an LLP to be converted into any other organization or in the case of closure of business. The registry may ask to fulfill the annual compliance even if the LLP was non operational. A regular compliance record makes the conversion easier.
PAN of LLP
Certificate of Incorporation of LLP
LLP Agreement and Supplementary agreements, if any
Financial Statement of LLP duly signed by the Designated Partners
Digital Signature Certificates of all Designated Partners
30th May
30th October
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All it takes 5 working days*
*Subjected to Government Processing Time.