The deadline that governs LLP closure in Mumbai is not one date on a government calendar. It is the next annual filing cycle. Until the registrar strikes the name off, every year an idle LLP stays on the register adds another Form 11, another Form 8, and additional fees that have run as multiplier slabs since 1 April 2022. File the closure before the next cycle opens and the meter stops. Wait, and you keep paying for a business that earns nothing. This page covers the local layer of that decision: the registrar split that took effect on 16 February 2026, the state registrations that outlive a strike off, and what the work costs.
What stays due while the LLP sits on the register?
An LLP with no revenue, no staff and no bank activity still owes its annual paperwork. The obligations below keep falling due until the strike off completes, and each carries its own cost of delay.
| Obligation | Runs until | What delay adds |
|---|---|---|
| Annual return on Form 11 | The name comes off the register | Additional fee in multiplier slabs of the normal fee |
| Statement of account and solvency on Form 8 | The name comes off the register | The same slabs, climbing with each stage of delay |
| Entity PTEC enrolment | The enrolment is closed on mahagst.gov.in | Another ₹2,500 of Maharashtra profession tax each year |
| GST returns on a GSTIN starting with 27 | The registration is cancelled | A separate late fee trail on the GST portal |
The exit instrument itself is national: Form 24, the strike off application, supported by partner affidavits, an indemnity bond and a nil statement of account. The mechanics are covered in our complete LLP closure guide for India. What changes in Mumbai is where the file sits and what the state stacks on top.
Which registrar holds your LLP's file?
Since 16 February 2026 the city has two registrars, and most guides published before that date describe a world that no longer exists. The company side of the split comes from notification S.O. 4850(E) of 23 October 2025, and LLPs travel with the parallel notification S.O. 4849(E). The test is short. Greater Mumbai is exactly two districts, Mumbai City and Mumbai Suburban, and a registered office in either answers to ROC Mumbai-I. A registered office anywhere else in the region, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Kalyan or Vasai Virar included, answers to ROC Mumbai-II at Navi Mumbai. That registrar's charge covers eight districts: Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Nashik, Dhule, Jalgaon, Nandurbar and Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
Two practical points follow. Strike offs the registrar starts on its own motion against defaulters stay with this jurisdictional office, so a dormant LLP is never invisible. And closure paperwork prepared on the old single registrar assumption names the wrong office, which is the first error we check for.
What does missing the exit actually cost?
Older articles still quote a ₹100 a day additional fee with no upper cap. That regime ended on 1 April 2022. What replaced it is a set of multiplier slabs on the normal filing fee, and the multiplier climbs as the delay crosses each stage. Two forms a year across several idle years compound into a genuinely unpleasant number.
Maharashtra adds its own line. The entity's PTEC stays payable at a flat ₹2,500 a year, and each partner carries an enrolment in personal capacity too, so nothing on the state's register switches off just because trading stopped. An unfiled closure is not a saving. It is a subscription to penalties for a business that no longer exists.
Which Mumbai LLPs does this bite hardest?
The pattern repeats across the city. Four situations bring most of the closure work to our desk.
- SaaS and IT founders in Powai who incorporated an LLP early, moved the product into a private limited company once investors arrived, and left the original entity idle with filings quietly falling due.
- A restaurant and retail brand owner in Bandra West who parked a second label in its own LLP, never opened the doors, and only remembered the entity when a notice arrived.
- Consulting partners in Andheri East who wound the practice down informally and assumed a dormant LLP fades off the register by itself, which it never does.
- Family businesses around Kalbadevi that restructured into a company and kept the old LLP as a name on paper, still accruing obligations every year.
How we run the strike off from our side
The sequence is fixed, and most of it happens without you.
- We pull the filing history and master data from MCA V3 and map the registered office district to ROC Mumbai-I or ROC Mumbai-II, so every document names the right office from the start.
- We compute the arrears under the multiplier slabs before you spend a rupee, so a founder in Powai with three unfiled years knows the whole bill on day one.
- We draft the partner affidavits, consent letters and the indemnity bond. Stamp duty in Maharashtra depends on the instrument and its value, so we compute the exact figure before anything is executed.
- Your chartered accountant certifies the statement of account showing nil balances, or our own CA and CS team prepares it with you.
- We file Form 24 online, answer every query the registrar raises, and keep chasing until the register itself shows the LLP as struck off.
What do we need from you before filing?
Three answers and one signing pack, in practice.
- The registered office address as it stands on the record, because the district decides which registrar holds the file.
- The last year for which Form 8 and Form 11 were actually filed, because that is where the arrears math begins.
- The state registrations still standing: the entity's PTEC, each partner's personal enrolment, any GSTIN beginning with 27, and any shops intimation for premises the LLP once ran.
- Working digital signatures for the designated partners, plus signed copies of the pack we draft. Expired DSCs are the most common delay we see, so we check them before anything is filed.
Everything else, the drafting, the stamping and the filing itself, happens on our side.
Why LegalX India for a Mumbai closure?
Closure work rewards the team that watches the boring details. Our CA and CS people have spent 10+ years filing with the MCA and have handled work for 15,000+ customers across India. Clients rate that work 4.8 on Google across 2,500+ reviews. The engagement runs fully online, the professional fee is a flat ₹5,999, and arrears and stamp costs are quoted before you commit to anything. Tell us where the registered office sits and when the LLP last filed, and you will have a callback within 30 minutes with the registrar mapping and the complete number. From that point the LLP finally stops costing you money, which is the whole point of closing it.