Fortax Mca Incorporation

Company incorporation (SPICe+)

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 last click

Every MCA filing ends in a DSC affixation and a payment. Both belong to the CA or the director. Refusing an incorporation because its last step is theirs is a failure. Everything before it is yours: the name search, the intake, the documents, every field of SPICe+ Part A and Part B, the linked forms, the e-MoA and e-AoA, and the pre-scrutiny fix-up. Say in one line what you will do and where you will stop, then start.

Looking rules up. Every period, cap, fee and limit below is looked up, never stated from memory: run python3 scripts/fortax.py kb "SPICe+ name reservation validity" --topics mca and quote the source URL and captured date. Where the reply is weak or none, read it on the MCA portal or the Companies (Incorporation) Rules, 2014, and mark it "confirm on the portal". List each in a Rules used block with source and date checked.

Step 1 — intake

Write <date>_incorporation_intake.md in the client's ROC folder (for example <Client>/<FY 2026-27>/ROC/). Ask only for what is missing.

Fix the constitution first. It decides the subscriber count, the declarations and which linked forms open. Validate every PAN format (five letters, four digits, one letter) and check the 4th character against the person's status (P individual, C company, F firm, and so on).

Step 2 — name availability, and the discipline around it

Never promise a name — the Registrar decides. Before proposing anything, run all of these:

• MCA company and LLP name search, for identical and closely resembling names.
• The trademark register (IP India public search), for the proposed word in the classes matching the objects. A collision with a registered mark gets the name refused or challenged later. Search it, do not assume. See fortax-trademark for how to run the search.
• The name-availability restrictions in the Companies (Incorporation) Rules — undesirable names, names needing central government approval, names implying state patronage or a regulator link — and whether the objects need a sectoral regulator's in-principle approval (RBI, IRDAI, SEBI) first.

Give the CA two or more names with the evidence for each, say which are riskier and why, and write "this name may be refused" where that is true. Reservation runs either through RUN (name only) or through SPICe+ Part A, which reserves inside the incorporation flow — usually the better route, since reservation and filing stay in one application. A reserved name has a validity window and a capped number of resubmissions; look both up, put them in Rules used, and never state either from memory.

Step 3 — SPICe+ Part A

SPICe+ is a web form on the MCA V3 portal, filed from a logged-in MCA account — not a downloadable PDF like the old V2 eForms. Open the 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 and work from what they paste or screenshot. The CA signs in — password, OTP and captcha are theirs; never type or store a password. Re-read the page before every click, since elements change on each page. Locate SPICe+ under the company forms menu rather than assuming a URL. Fill company type, class, category, sub-category, the activity code matching the real objects, and the proposed names with their significance. Save the draft, record the application number.

Step 4 — Part B and the linked forms

Part B carries the whole incorporation: capital structure, registered office, subscribers and directors, DIN applications for those without one, PAN and TAN, and the professional certification.

DIN is allotted through SPICe+ for first directors, up to a capped number per application; anyone holding a DIN uses it, anyone beyond the cap applies in DIR-3 first (fortax-mca-director-changes). Confirm the cap on the portal.

Step 5 — what each person must give

• Every subscriber and director: PAN, plus identity and address proof in the form the portal accepts; for a foreign national or NRI, passport with apostille or consularisation as applicable.
• Photograph where asked; DIR-2 consent from every director; the professional's INC-8 declaration.
• Registered office proof: ownership document or rent/lease deed, an NOC from the owner, and a recent utility bill. A rented office with no NOC stops the filing — flag it at intake, not at Part B. Where the office is not ready, incorporate on a correspondence address and file INC-22 after, within a time limit you look up rather than recall.
• Anything not in the client folder goes in a "please send" list at the top of the intake sheet.

Step 6 — stop at the DSC and the payment

Fill everything, run the portal's own pre-scrutiny or check-form, fix what it reports, stop, and hand over with:

• Which forms are complete, which fields are blank and why; whose DSC each form needs, and whether every DSC is registered on MCA and unexpired.
• That fee and stamp duty vary by state and by authorised capital — give the figure the portal itself computes on the payment screen, never one from memory.
• Check before filing: names against the search evidence, object clause against the activity code, subscription table totalling the paid-up capital (add it in a spreadsheet or script, not in your head), every PAN and DIN, office proof against the typed address, and each attachment against the portal's format and size limits.

After the CA submits, record the SRN and date. Resubmission has its own window and attempt cap — look them up. On approval the certificate of incorporation issues with the CIN, and PAN and TAN come with it; download the certificate, approved MoA and AoA and the PAN and TAN letters into the client's ROC folder, and file the certificate in <Client>/Permanent/.

Output

In the client's ROC folder, dated: the intake sheet with application number and SRN, the name search evidence, the document checklist with what is missing, and a note of what was filled where. Every rule relied on goes in Rules used. Never a submitted form, and never rename or delete a raw file.