# Fortax Llp Filings > LLP filings - Skill: `amit-voais/fortax-llp-filings` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 3 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add amit-voais/fortax-llp-filings` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/amit-voais/fortax-llp-filings/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Coding & Dev Tools - Author: amit-voais (https://skillmd.com/u/amit-voais) - Updated: 2026-09-22 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/amit-voais/fortax-llp-filings --- # LLP filings Needs Python 3 and internet: runs `scripts/fortax.py` (the Fortax engine on ai.fortax.in; your file is processed and not stored). ## Do the work, then stop at the DSC Every LLP form is signed with a designated partner's DSC, most are certified by a professional, and all carry a fee. Those clicks are the CA's or the partner's. **Refusing the job because of them is a failure.** Yours is the rest: intake, name search, agreement drafting, the figures, every field of the form. Say where you will stop, then start. **Looking rules up.** Due dates, filing periods, audit thresholds, stamp duty and additional fees are never stated from memory. Run `python3 scripts/fortax.py kb "LLP Form 8 due date" --topics mca` and quote its source and captured date; where the reply is `weak` or `none`, read the LLP Act, 2008, the LLP Rules, 2009, the state stamp Act or the MCA portal and mark it "confirm on the portal". Record each in **Rules used**. ## What is different about an LLP Say this before planning any LLP work; it changes what is due and what is not. | Company | LLP | |---|---| | Directors, with DINs | Designated partners, with DPINs — same number series, same KYC form | | MoA and AoA, filed at incorporation | LLP agreement, filed separately after incorporation in Form 3 | | AOC-4 with financial statements, and MGT-7 annual return | Form 8 (statement of account and solvency) and Form 11 (annual return) | | Annual general meeting drives both due dates | No AGM; the due dates run from the financial year end | | Board and general meetings, with statutory minutes | Only what the LLP agreement itself requires | | Audit by threshold under the Companies Act | Audit by turnover or contribution thresholds under the LLP Act — look them up, never state them | | Charges registered in CHG-1 | LLP charge registration follows its own route — confirm it on the portal | An LLP with no activity still files Form 8 and Form 11. "There was no business" is the commonest reason an LLP arrives with years of default and an additional fee behind it. ## Incorporation — FiLLiP FiLLiP is the integrated form: name reservation, DPIN allotment for the proposed designated partners, and incorporation. The name can also be reserved separately in **RUN-LLP** first. Name discipline is the same as for a company (`fortax-mca-incorporation`): search the MCA company and LLP name database for identical and resembling names, and the trademark register for the proposed word in the classes matching the business. Never promise a name — the Registrar decides. Give the CA two or more options with the evidence, say which are riskier, then prepare: - Each partner's PAN, identity and address proof in the portal's accepted forms; passport with apostille or consularisation for a foreign national or body corporate partner. - Registered office proof: ownership document or rent/lease deed, owner's NOC, and a recent utility bill. A rented office with no NOC stops the filing — flag it at intake. - Subscribers' sheet, consents to act, business activities, contributions, professional's certificate. DPIN is allotted through FiLLiP up to a capped number per application, confirmed on the portal and not from memory; anyone already holding a DIN or DPIN uses it. On approval the certificate issues with the LLPIN, and PAN and TAN follow. ## The LLP agreement and Form 3 This is where LLPs most often fall into default. The agreement is executed on stamp paper of the value the state prescribes for the contribution — **stamp duty is a state subject and varies with contribution: look it up for that state, never state a figure** — then filed in **Form 3** within the period allowed after incorporation, which you look up too. The drafting is yours. Cover at least: each partner's contribution and the form it takes, profit sharing ratio, rights and duties, who is a designated partner and their powers, admission and retirement, how accounts are kept and audited, dispute resolution, dissolution. Any later change is filed in Form 3 again with the supplementary deed attached. Partner changes and agreement changes usually come together — Form 4 and Form 3 go as a pair; one without the other leaves the record wrong. ## Partners — Form 4 Form 4 covers appointment, cessation, and any change in the name, address or designation of a partner or designated partner. Prepare: the incoming partner's consent, the outgoing partner's resignation letter, the supplementary agreement recording the change, the partners' resolution where the agreement requires one, and a body corporate partner's nominee details. An LLP must keep the minimum number of designated partners the LLP Act requires, with one of them resident in India; a cessation that breaks either condition is a stop-and-escalate. Every designated partner needs a DPIN, and DIR-3 KYC applies to a DPIN exactly as to a DIN — a deactivated DPIN blocks every LLP filing that partner must sign (see `fortax-mca-director-changes`). ## Annual filings — Form 11 and Form 8 | Form | What it carries | Signed and certified by | |---|---|---| | Form 11 | Annual return: partner details, contribution, and the other entities the partners are in | Designated partners, certified by a professional in the cases the rules specify | | Form 8 | Statement of account and solvency, with assets and liabilities and income and expenditure | Designated partners, with the auditor's or a professional's certificate | Both have their own due dates running from the financial year end, and late filing carries an additional fee. State no date and no amount from memory: look each up for that financial year and record it in **Rules used**. Whether a statutory audit is required turns on turnover and contribution thresholds under the LLP Act — look those up too, and where the figures sit close to a threshold show the working, not the conclusion. Form 8 also carries the partners' declaration of solvency and contingent liabilities: take the figures from the finalised accounts, cite file and line for each, and recompute totals from the rows in a spreadsheet or script, not in your head. ## Filing on the portal, and what you hand over Open the MCA V3 portal in your browser tool (Claude in Chrome, a Playwright or browser MCP, or the Codex browser); if you have none, give the CA the click path. The CA signs in. Re-read the page before each click. LLP forms have moved to the MCA V3 portal and are filed as web forms from a logged-in account, not as downloaded eForms; if a form is not where you expect on the V3 menu, look for it rather than giving the CA a path that may no longer exist. Save the draft, run check-form, fix what it reports. In the client's ROC folder, dated: the intake sheet with LLPIN and SRNs, the drafted agreement or deed, the completed form with each field's source noted, the attachment list marked found or missing, and **Rules used** with every date, threshold and fee looked up. Never rename or delete a raw file. **Check before filing**: LLPIN and every DPIN against MCA master data, DPIN KYC current and DSC registered and unexpired for each signing partner, the designated-partner minimum and the resident condition still met, contribution figures agreeing between Form 11, the agreement and the accounts, Form 8 figures traced to the finalised accounts, and each attachment within the portal's limits. The fee is whatever the portal computes. The DSC and the payment are the CA's.