Every LLP on the register files Form 11 and Form 8 each year, whether it traded or sat idle. An LLP in Hinjawadi that has not raised a single invoice files both. An LLP that stopped work two years ago and never applied for strike off files both. What does not reach you is the company side of the Companies Act, so there is no AOC-4, no MGT-7 and no annual general meeting to hold. A Pune LLP answers to ROC Pune through the MCA portal, and its Maharashtra registrations sit beside that filing rather than inside it.
Does this apply to your LLP, and for which year?
The duty starts in the financial year your LLP was incorporated and ends only when the name leaves the register. The year runs 1 April to 31 March, and both MCA forms report on the year that has just closed.
Form 11 is the annual return. It sets out the partners, the designated partners and the contribution position as they stood at year end, with every change made during the twelve months.
Form 8 is the statement of account and solvency. It carries the financial position for the year and a declaration by two designated partners that the LLP can pay its debts as they fall due.
Neither form has a turnover floor under it. A dormant LLP in Baner with nil bank statements files the same pair as a busy one. Size decides two other things only: whether an audit sits behind Form 8, and whether a practising professional certifies Form 11. We tell you which side of both lines you fall on before any work starts.
Which records does an LLP hand over first?
The input list is short, and every item comes out of your own records:
- The LLP agreement and any supplementary agreement signed during the year, because contribution and profit sharing are read from it
- Bank statements for every account the LLP holds, covering all twelve months, including accounts that saw no movement at all
- A trial balance or the books themselves, plus summaries of sales, purchases and expenses for the year
- Details of each partner admitted, retired or changed, with the date each change actually took effect
- Live digital signatures for two designated partners, since both sign Form 8 and one of them signs Form 11
Renew the digital signatures early. A token that expires in the last week of May is the commonest reason a Pune LLP slips past 30 May by a few days, and the charge runs from the date rather than from the reason.
Which forms are due, and on what date?
| Filing | What it reports | Due date |
|---|---|---|
| Form 11 annual return | Partners and contribution as at 31 March | 30 May |
| Form 8 statement of account and solvency | Financial position and the solvency declaration | 30 October |
| ITR-5 where no audit applies | The LLP income for the year | 31 July |
| ITR-5 where audit applies | The LLP income for the year | 31 October |
Audit enters the picture once turnover crosses ₹40 lakh in a year, or once partner contribution crosses ₹25 lakh. Each partner of a Maharashtra LLP also carries a PTEC enrolment of ₹2,500 for the year, and so does the LLP itself, with payment due by 31 March.
How much does a slipped date cost an LLP?
| What slipped | What it costs | How the charge behaves |
|---|---|---|
| Form 11 after 30 May | ₹100 for each day of delay | Runs on until the form is taken on record |
| Form 8 after 30 October | ₹100 for each day of delay | Charged on its own, on top of the Form 11 amount |
| Both forms left for six months | Roughly ₹36,000 between them | Payable before either form can go in |
| Income tax return filed late | Interest plus a late filing fee | Lands on the LLP tax demand, not on the MCA side |
Nothing caps the daily figure, which is what turns an old default from annoying into expensive. The second cost is standing. Pending forms block a clean exit, because a strike off application will not move while filings are outstanding, so an LLP nobody uses any more still cannot be shut. Lenders and tender committees read the MCA record before they read the pitch, and a Kharadi office on leased premises usually finds this out during a loan file or a lease renewal.
From closed books to SRN, step by step
- We take the books and the bank statements, reconcile them and close the accounts for the year ended 31 March.
- We draft Form 8 and Form 11 from those closed accounts and from the LLP agreement, then send both back as a filled preview.
- Two designated partners sign with their digital signatures, and the certifying professional signs the same file where the form calls for it.
- We upload on the MCA portal for ROC Pune, pay the statutory fee and keep the SRN and the challan on your file.
- We file ITR-5 on the income tax portal off the same closed accounts, so the two sets of numbers never disagree with each other.
Which Pune LLPs get caught out?
- A product team in Hinjawadi that kept the LLP as a holding vehicle after shifting the product into a private limited company, then stopped thinking about it
- A Kharadi team running corporate services out of a rented suite on leased premises, where the leave and licence agreement already on file is what proves the registered office address
- An engineering outfit with a job shop at Chakan that files GST every month and assumes the same accountant is covering the MCA side too
- Two designated partners who have fallen out, where nobody will sign Form 8 and the daily charge keeps running while the argument does
Who reviews an LLP filing once it is uploaded?
Both forms go to ROC Pune. A Pune LLP files exactly where it always filed, because the February 2026 registrar restructuring left that office untouched. MCA still carries Maharashtra Pune as a separate registrar, with a Registrar and contact details of its own. ROC Pune is the registrar for Pune and the districts around it. We confirm the registrar for your specific registered address before we upload, rather than reading it off a pincode.
Above the registrar sits the Regional Director, Western Region Directorate II at Navi Mumbai, which S.O. 4851(E) sets out on the LLP side. A petition, a restoration or a partner dispute that travels past the Registrar is heard at the NCLT Mumbai Bench. Two states make up its published jurisdiction, Maharashtra and Goa. None of this asks for a counter visit. The filing is online, and jurisdiction follows your own registered office address rather than your adviser's.
What does LegalX India actually do for a Pune LLP?
Fixed at ₹6,999 for the year, covering Form 8, Form 11, the accounts behind them, ITR-5 and audit support where the thresholds bite. Our CA and CS team do the work, you sign twice, and you read a one page summary at the end. The Pune office sits at Yashwant Nagar, Near Bharatiya Samajseva, Yerwada, Pune 411006. Drop in for a face to face review of the closed accounts if that suits you, though no part of the filing asks for it. More than 15,000 businesses have filed with LegalX India. For how the same package runs outside Maharashtra, read the national LLP annual compliance guide.