INC-20A Due Date
INC-20A, the declaration of commencement of business, is due within 180 days of incorporation — for a company incorporated on 29 April 2026, that's 26 October 2026. Unlike every other form on this page, it's filed once, not every year.
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AOC-4, MGT-7 and ADT-1 all recompute from this date.
Applicable filings
ADT-1 is filed only when an auditor is appointed or re-appointed — typically once every five years, not at every AGM.
DPT-3 is filed by every company — including a nil return where there are no deposits or loans. Included by default; tick only to exclude it.
Event-based — 30 days from the resolution date, not annual.
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E.g. AOC-4 filed 78 days late = ₹7,800.
ROC Compliance Calendar
ROC Compliance Calendar — Private Limited Company
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A one-time filing, easy to lose track of
INC-20A applies to companies incorporated with share capital and requires a declaration that the subscribers have paid for their shares and the company has commenced business. Because it's a single, one-time filing rather than a recurring annual one, it doesn't fit naturally into a compliance calendar built around AOC-4/MGT-7-style annual cycles — which is exactly why it gets missed at newly incorporated companies more often than established filings do.
Until INC-20A is filed, the company can't exercise its borrowing powers or commence business operations in a way that's fully compliant — this makes it a genuine operational blocker, not just a paperwork risk, for a company that's already trying to open bank accounts, sign contracts, or draw on financing.
Penalty for missing the 180-day window
The penalty structure for late INC-20A includes a company-level fine and a per-officer daily fine subject to a cap — confirm the exact current figures with your CA before quoting them, since general penalty figures under the Companies Act are periodically revised and this page prioritises flagging uncertainty over asserting a number that might be stale.
New incorporations are also the point at which a company's ongoing ROC calendar first starts running — it's worth setting up the full annual filing calendar (AGM planning, AOC-4, MGT-7, DIR-3 KYC) at the same time as tracking INC-20A, rather than treating the one-time filing as a separate task from the recurring obligations that begin immediately afterward.
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