A dormant LLP is not free to leave alone. Form 8 and Form 11 remain due every year whether or not the LLP trades, and a late filing carries an additional fee that is a multiple of the normal fee: up to 25 times for a small LLP and 50 times for any other, with a per-day element on Form 8 and Form 11 once the delay passes 360 days. An LLP nobody has touched for three years is quietly running that bill up. Closing it stops the meter - the catch is that you cannot close it without first filing everything you skipped.
Starting at
₹9,999 onwards
LLP strike off
Dormant LLPs, LLPs that never commenced business
Timeline
3 to 6 months from filing
Rule 37 of the LLP Rules, 2009 allows the Registrar to strike an LLP off the register on application in Form 24, where the LLP has not carried on any business or operation for a period of one year or more, or has not commenced business since incorporation. All partners must consent. Rule 37(1A) requires the LLP to have filed overdue Form 8 and Form 11 up to the end of the financial year in which it ceased to carry on business.
Restoring a struck off company under section 252 is a Companies Act route; an LLP's position after strike-off is different and is checked separately. Likewise, dormant company status under section 455 is a Companies Act status and does not apply to an LLP, which is why a dormant LLP still files Form 8 and Form 11 every year.
Form 24
The application to the Registrar to strike the LLP's name off the register under Rule 37.
Rule 37(1A)
The condition requiring overdue Form 8 and Form 11 to be filed up to the end of the financial year in which the LLP ceased business. This is where most closures stall.
Statement of Account
Disclosing nil assets and nil liabilities, certified by a Chartered Accountant in practice, made up to a date not earlier than thirty days before the application. The thirty-day rule is strict.
LLP amnesty
No LLP amnesty is currently available. LLP filings carry the full additional fee with no relief.
Two qualifying situations under Rule 37, and the consent of every partner.
The backlog often costs more than the closure. Work it out first.
The statement of account has a hard shelf life, and slow document assembly invalidates it.
01
Overdue Form 8 and Form 11 filed up to the end of the financial year in which the LLP ceased business. Duration depends entirely on the backlog.
02
Consent of all partners, affidavit by the designated partners that business has ceased and there are no liabilities, and the indemnity bond. Seven to ten days.
03
Nil assets and nil liabilities, certified by a CA in practice, dated within thirty days of the application. We time this to the filing, not to the start of the engagement.
04
Filed with the DSC of the designated partners. The Registrar publishes the application on the MCA website for a period to allow objections, then passes the strike off order - typically three to six months from filing.
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