OPC Closure in Bangalore — From ₹12,999

• STK-2, STK-3 and STK-4 preparation and filing
• Statement of accounts, CA certified
• Board resolution and member consent
• Registrar follow-up to dissolution
• ×Up to 2 years overdue AOC-4 and MGT-7A
• ×Unlimited backlog clearance
• ×Bank closure and PAN surrender support

• Everything in Growth
• Unlimited backlog clearance
• Bank closure and PAN surrender support
• Registrar follow-up to dissolution
• Named dedicated CA and CS

Three options, not one

Most people searching for how to close an OPC have not actually decided they want it gone — they want to stop paying for something they are not using. Strike off dissolves the company and releases the name; if you want the business back later you incorporate afresh with a new incorporation date. Dormant status under Section 455 keeps the company alive on sharply reduced compliance, filing Form MSC-3 annually. Or keep filing, which is only sensible if the company will trade again shortly. We will tell you which one fits before you pay for either.

Dormancy is the cheaper hedge

If you want to keep the name, the incorporation date, or a registration attached to the entity, dormant status is the right answer — and at 50 per cent of fee this month it is cheap. Dormant status instead of closure starts at ₹9,999, including MSC-1 at the reduced fee.

When an OPC can be struck off

Section 248(2) allows a company to apply in Form STK-2 for removal of its name, after extinguishing all liabilities, with the consent of the member. The company must either not have commenced business, or not have been carrying on business for the preceding two financial years.

Overdue filings have to go first

The Registrar will not process STK-2 for a company with pending annual filings — which is exactly what the amnesty makes affordable. The sequence for a dormant OPC with a backlog is: clear the annual returns at 10 per cent of additional fee, then file STK-2 at 25 per cent of fee, both inside the same window. Run that arithmetic on a three-year backlog and the saving is usually the difference between closing it now and putting it off for another year.

The thirty-day rule on the statement of accounts is strict

The CA-certified statement of nil assets and nil liabilities must be made up to a date not more than 30 days before the application. If assembling the file takes six weeks, the statement gets redone. We front-load the paperwork so that does not happen.

What happens to your nominee

The nominee named in the memorandum ceases to have any role on dissolution, and no separate filing is needed on strike off. But if your nominee died, emigrated or withdrew consent at some point and Form INC-4 was never filed, that inaccuracy is sitting in the company's records — better cleared before the application than raised as an objection during it.