INC-20A Filing in Mumbai — From ₹1,499

• INC-20A drafting and filing
• Board resolution
• Bank proof review before filing
• Professional certification
• ×First-year compliance calendar
• ×ADT-1 auditor appointment
• ×DIR-3 KYC for up to 2 directors
• ×Full first-year annual ROC filing

• Everything in Growth
• Full first-year annual ROC filing
• AOC-4 and MGT-7 / MGT-7A after the first AGM
• DIR-3 KYC for up to 2 directors
• First-year compliance calendar, managed
• Named dedicated CA and CS

What INC-20A is, in one line

A declaration that the shareholders actually paid for their shares. Under Section 10A of the Companies Act, a company registered with share capital cannot commence business or borrow anything until a director files a declaration confirming that every subscriber to the memorandum has paid the value of the shares they agreed to take. You declared ₹1,00,000 of paid-up capital at incorporation; the government wants to see that ₹1,00,000 land in the company's bank account, from the shareholders, before you trade.

The cost of missing it

₹50,000 on the company. ₹1,000 per day on every officer in default, capped at ₹1,00,000. An additional fee of ₹100 per day on the form itself. And the one nobody mentions — the Registrar may initiate action to strike your company off under Section 248, on the reasonable ground that it is not carrying on business. A company that never filed INC-20A and never filed its annual returns is precisely what a strike-off drive is designed to catch.

What you cannot do until it is filed

Commence any business operations, or exercise any borrowing powers — no loan, no credit line, no director's loan drawn as borrowing. Your bank will open a current account on the certificate of incorporation alone and plenty of founders start trading the same week. That does not make it lawful. It becomes a disclosed non-compliance the first time an investor, a lender or an acquirer reads your file, and the fix is retrospective while the dates do not lie.

The one thing that makes filings fail

Bank proof. The amount credited must match the subscription in the memorandum, and it must come from each subscriber's own account. What does not work: one founder transferring the whole amount for both shareholders, money routed through a third party, a round figure that does not tie to the shareholding split, cash deposits. If your subscription money went in the wrong way, we tell you before we file, not after the form is returned.

Already past 180 days? File now

The additional fee and the officer penalty both accrue daily and neither stops until the form is on record. In order: confirm the subscription money is actually in the account, compute the additional fee as at the filing date so you know the number before you commit, file with the bank proof, then deal with any adjudication notice under Section 454 if the Registrar has already issued one.

The MCA amnesty does not help here

CCFS-2026, running to 31 August 2026, covers overdue annual filings under Sections 92 and 137, dormant status and strike off. INC-20A carries its full additional fee.

The rest of your first year

INC-20A is the first of several. Within the first year a new private limited company also needs the first auditor appointed within 30 days of incorporation, ADT-1 filed, DIR-3 KYC for every director, AOC-4 and MGT-7 or MGT-7A after the first AGM, and its first ITR-6. Our Growth and Complete plans cover that whole calendar so you are not doing this again in nine months.