GST Registration in Bangalore

Which authority handles a Bengaluru GST registration

The application goes in as Form REG-01 on the common portal; there is no separate Karnataka application. See GST registration: the full guide for the national process. Karnataka's own tax administration is the Commercial Taxes Department at ctax.karnataka.gov.in, and that is the office you deal with on state matters once you hold the GSTIN. Your registration is allotted to either a Central or a State authority, and we tell you which one your REG-06 shows so notices land in the right place. We do not publish a commissionerate or zone name for Bengaluru: the central list we would need to confirm it against is not reachable, and a wrong office name on a notice reply costs you weeks.

Karnataka is not a special category state for the threshold, so the ordinary limits apply: ₹40 lakh for goods, ₹20 lakh for services. A Bengaluru services business therefore becomes liable at ₹20 lakh, not at some lower Karnataka figure. Registration is compulsory whatever the turnover if you supply goods inter-state or sell through an e-commerce operator.

The Karnataka cost layer once you are registered

Professional tax, and Karnataka's unusually high exemption. Karnataka levies professional tax under the Karnataka Tax on Professions, Trades, Callings and Employments Act, 1976, administered by the Commercial Taxes Department, with registration and enrolment handled alongside e-Karmika at ekarmika.karnataka.gov.in. There is no government fee for registration or enrolment; the only amount payable is the tax itself. Two figures matter: salaries are nil-rated up to ₹25,000 a month, and above that it is ₹200 a month for eleven months and ₹300 for February, which comes to ₹2,500 a year, the constitutional ceiling under Article 276(2). Enrolment, the professional tax your business pays in its own right, is ₹2,500 a year per place of business, raised from ₹2,400 with effect from 1 April 2025. Compare that ₹25,000 exemption with Maharashtra's ₹7,500: a large part of a Bengaluru junior payroll falls outside professional tax altogether, which is a genuine difference in running cost.

Shop and Establishment, and why the standard advice is now out of date. Karnataka has the most significant 2026 change of any state in this batch. The Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments (Amendment) Act, 2026 was assented on 3 September 2026, gazetted on 4 September 2026 and is in force. It does four things. Registration is now valid until closure, with no renewal. Establishments with ten or more workers already registered under the Occupational Safety, Health and Working Conditions Code, 2020 are excluded from the Act altogether, so a Bengaluru business of that size may need no Karnataka Shops registration at all. A godown within 100 metres of the registered premises needs no separate registration. And processing moves to a shorter electronic timeline. Every competitor page still tells you to renew annually. Registration runs on e-Karmika under the Karnataka Shops and Commercial Establishments Act, 1961. We confirm the fee slab for your headcount rather than publish one.

The trade licence, and the name almost everyone still gets wrong. Do not look for BBMP. The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike has been dissolved. Bengaluru is administered by the Greater Bengaluru Authority through five city corporations: Bengaluru Central, Bengaluru North, Bengaluru South, Bengaluru East and Bengaluru West City Corporations. Which one issues your licence depends on which corporation your premises falls in, so there is no single "the" authority for the city any more, and we confirm yours from the property document. Licensable trades sit in Schedule X of the Karnataka Municipal Corporations Act, 1976, and the fee is fixed by the corporation by trade category, with the validity period chosen at application. We do not publish an amount, and we do not repeat the old fixed renewal window and penalty date that competitor pages still carry: that was the pre-dissolution position and it is not confirmed for the five new corporations. We confirm the renewal position with your corporation.

What else a Bengaluru business usually needs

ROC Bangalore was not part of the 2026 reorganisation, so its jurisdiction is unchanged. What did change is that Bengaluru now has its own Regional Director for the first time: RD (South Western Region) at Bangalore, covering Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep, operational from 16 February 2026. Any filing that needs Regional Director approval or confirmation is now made to an office in Bengaluru rather than out of state. See our company registration in Bangalore hub for the incorporation, and note that we quote Karnataka stamp duty before filing rather than publishing a rate: the two candidate figures for articles of association differ by a factor of ten between sources, and we will not bill you against a number we cannot stand behind. Most new registrants also want Shop and Establishment registration and, where their trade is licensable, the corporation trade licence.

How Regikart works in Bengaluru

Our Bengaluru branch is at 26, Krishnalaya Complex, 4th Cross, N.R. Road, near S.J. Park Police Station, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560002. You can hand over your PAN, Aadhaar, address proof and bank proof there, or send them on WhatsApp at +91 70444 94804 or by email to [email protected]. Our head office is in Kolkata and we have a third office in Delhi.