Statutory Registers Every Private Company Must Maintain
A company can be fully up to date on every ROC filing and still be non-compliant. Statutory registers are a separate, continuous obligation, and nothing reminds you when one falls out of date.
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A company can be fully up to date on every ROC filing and still be non-compliant. Statutory registers are a separate, continuous obligation, and nothing reminds you when one falls out of date.
Not every company that wants to close qualifies for strike-off. Here's how to tell whether the simple STK-2 route actually applies to yours, or whether you need a proper winding-up process instead.
A loan can be fully documented and fully secured, and still rank behind every other creditor in insolvency if the charge was never registered with the ROC. Here's what Form CHG-1 actually protects.
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A Section 8 company isn't automatically tax-exempt, and mixing up the two is the costliest mistake a new NGO founder makes. Here's what the structure actually requires under company law, and separately, under income tax law.
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An auditor can walk away from an audit with a letter and a filing. A company that wants to walk an auditor out the door before their term ends needs a special resolution and the government's approval first. That asymmetry is deliberate, and it runs through rotation, resignation, and removal alike.
OPC compliance is lighter than a private limited company's, not absent. A sole founder still needs a nominee on file, a statutory audit every year, and an annual filing cycle that doesn't pause just because there's only one shareholder to answer to.
Most ROC filings simply can't be attempted without a valid DSC on file for a director. Here's what it actually is, how to get one, and how to avoid the renewal trap that stops a filing cold.