Start with what the business needs to set up, register or change.

Five services: Company / LLP Incorporation, GST Registration, IEC Registration, Udyam / MSME Registration, and other agreed registrations and amendments. Each is scoped separately, and the work runs from identifying the applicable requirement through organising the information, completing the agreed process and making clear what follows. It is not a catalogue of every registration available in India.

Incorporation can be handled within agreed scope: coordinating the process, collecting the information and documents it depends on, handling the setup-related filings included in scope, and setting out what should follow once the entity exists. Legal opinions, complex shareholder or capital structuring, investment advice and secretarial certification are not included. GST Registration is not automatic: forming the entity and registering it for what it does are separate requirements. Where a business needs both they can be scoped together, but incorporation on its own does not complete the tax or trade registrations — a common reason businesses get in touch after the fact.

GST Registration establishes or changes the business’s registration position. GST Compliance is the recurring work that follows — returns, reconciliation and the related compliance process. Registering does not include the returns, and taking on the returns does not include obtaining a registration. They are separate services and are scoped separately.

IEC Registration can be handled within agreed scope for businesses whose activity requires it, including agreed registration-related changes; customs advice, export incentives, foreign-trade-policy advisory, DGFT representation and import or export regulatory clearance are not included, and an IEC carries its own ongoing upkeep once granted. Udyam / MSME Registration can be handled where relevant, including agreed updates — but registration records the business as an MSME and does not by itself guarantee any subsidy, loan, tender, tax benefit, incentive or government support; those depend on the applicable scheme, the facts and the relevant authority, and classification criteria change from time to time. Amendments to an existing registration are often the actual requirement and can be supported within scope. Beyond these, industry and sector-specific licences — food, labour, pollution, drug, fire, professional or sectoral approvals — trademarks and other intellectual property, and RBI or FEMA permissions are not part of this service unless specifically confirmed. Anything else can be reviewed first to establish whether it falls within scope or needs another specialist.

It depends on the case. The requirements differ by entity, by registration, by the promoters, directors or partners involved, by the business activity and by the current government requirements at the time of application. The specific list is confirmed at the start of the engagement rather than published as a generic checklist, because a generic checklist is usually either incomplete or wrong for a particular business.

No guarantee, on either. TaxGraph can support the agreed application process and keep it moving, but approval, registration and allotment rest with the relevant authority and depend on the underlying facts — no adviser can promise an outcome, that no clarification will be raised, or that no further requirement will be added. Timing depends on the registration, the completeness of the information provided and the authority’s processing at the time; published timelines move, and any clarification raised during processing changes them again. Rather than quote a figure that may not hold, an indicative expectation is discussed against the actual requirement. The biggest factor within anyone’s control is usually how complete and accurate the information is at the outset.

Yes, where the business needs it and it is separately agreed. Setup work often creates later requirements — books to maintain, and recurring GST, TDS, Income Tax or ROC compliance where they apply. These are scoped only where genuinely relevant. They are not bundled onto a setup engagement by default.

It depends on factors such as the type of entity or registration, the number of applicants, promoters, directors or partners involved where relevant, the complexity of the information and documents, whether an amendment or historical position is involved, whether external professional involvement is needed, and the agreed scope. Where government or statutory fees apply, they are separate from TaxGraph’s professional fee. Fees are discussed against the actual requirement rather than published as a fixed package.