Business compliance in Maharashtra
Registrations and filings run on national portals wherever you incorporate — what Maharashtra decides is the state layer: what the incorporation documents are stamped at, whether payroll carries professional tax, how establishments register, and which Registrar of Companies your filings land with. Here are the specifics for the state.
Capital: Mumbai · Districts: 36
What is specific to Maharashtra
- Stamp duty at incorporation
- Maharashtra stamps the Articles ad valorem — ₹1,000 for every ₹5 lakh of authorised capital or part of it, subject to a cap — one of the costlier states to incorporate in at higher authorised capitals.
- Professional tax
- Professional tax requires two registrations: PTEC (the entity's own ₹2,500-a-year enrolment) and PTRC (to deduct ₹200 a month — ₹300 in February — from eligible employees).
- Shops & Establishments registration
- Under the Maharashtra Shops and Establishments Act, 2017, establishments with ten or more workers register and smaller ones submit an intimation — done online, and routinely asked for by banks.
- Your Registrar of Companies
- Registrar of Companies, Mumbai / Registrar of Companies, Pune — Pune covers the western districts including Pune, Kolhapur, Satara, Sangli, Solapur and Ahilyanagar; the rest of the state files at Mumbai.
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Districts of Maharashtra we serve
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