What this covers
The registrations a business needs besides its incorporation and its tax registrations: Udyam registration, an importer-exporter code, Shops and Establishments registration for each premises, profession tax where the state levies it, employer registration with the provident fund and state insurance authorities, and a trade mark for the name it trades under. Which apply turns on what the business does, where, and how many people it employs. Most are state law, so a second office usually means a second registration.
Statutory basis
Udyam registration is under section 8 of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006, on the composite criteria notified under it. The importer-exporter code is issued under section 7 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992. In Delhi, establishment registration is section 5 of the Delhi Shops and Establishments Act, 1954; other states have their own Act. Profession tax is a state levy under Article 276 of the Constitution. Employer registration follows the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 and the Employees' State Insurance Act, 1948 on crossing the count each specifies. A trade mark is applied for in Form TM-A under the Trade Marks Act, 1999.
Who it applies to
An importer-exporter code must be confirmed electronically each year between April and June even where nothing has changed, and one left unconfirmed is deactivated. Delhi levies no profession tax, so a business here meets it first on putting an office or an employee into a state that does, where the liability runs to enrolling the entity as well as deducting from salaries. And a company name cleared by the Registrar is not a trade mark: the proprietor of a registered mark can apply under section 16 of the Companies Act, 2013 to have your company's name rectified.
What we do
- 1Check what already exists: provident fund and state insurance numbers allotted at incorporation go live only on coverage.
- 2File Udyam registration on the enterprise's permanent account number and confirm the class the notified criteria produce, which governs the payment protection sections 15 and 16 give you.
- 3Obtain the importer-exporter code and put its annual confirmation on the compliance calendar.
- 4Register each premises under the Shops and Establishments Act of its own state within the period allowed.
- 5Enrol for profession tax in each state that levies it, for the entity and for employees, and set up the payroll deduction.
- 6Search the trade marks register in the relevant classes before filing, apply in each class the business actually uses, and answer the examination report and any opposition.
What you receive
- Registration map
- What applies, what does not and why, by state and by activity.
- Certificates
- Each registration obtained, with its number and date of effect.
- Renewal calendar
- The recurring obligations each creates, including the annual importer-exporter code confirmation.
- Trade mark file
- The search report, the application as filed, and its status to advertisement.
Documents and information required
Certificate of incorporation or partnership deed · permanent account number of the entity and of the proprietor, partners or directors, with Aadhaar · proof of each premises, with the owner's no-objection where leased · employee count · goods and services tax registration · for a trade mark, the mark as used, the goods or services it covers, and evidence of first use.
Key dates
A Delhi establishment is to be registered within ninety days of commencing work; other states run their own periods. Udyam registration has no deadline, but the class it records updates from your income-tax and goods and services tax data, taking effect from the following financial year. The importer-exporter code must be confirmed between April and June each year. A trade mark application is examined, advertised in the Trade Marks Journal, and may be opposed within four months; a registration runs ten years and is renewable.