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A compliance firm that publishes what it cannot do.

Legal Munshi handles company formation, taxation, licensing, intellectual property and recurring statutory filings for Indian businesses. This page describes what we sell, how we price it, what we are genuinely good at, and the work we will tell you not to buy.

  • Three lines on every invoice
  • Private vault, DPDP Act 2023
  • Fees published before you commit
25
Published services
6
Practice areas
137
Tracked SOP stages
3,138
Cities & districts indexed

Why we exist

Three statements we can be held to.

None of these is a count or a claim about how large we are. They describe how the platform is built and what it will and will not do.

The mission

Make the compliance every Indian business owes the state something a founder can actually see, understand and budget for — instead of a sequence of portals, intermediaries and surprises.

The approach

Model the repeatable work as tracked stages so quality does not depend on who picks up the file, and reserve qualified judgement for the decisions where it changes the answer.

The promise

Two prices, never one. A scope before a quote. A status you can read. And an honest answer — including “you do not need this” — even when the honest answer is the one that earns us less.

What this actually is

The paperwork is procedural. The judgement is not.

Starting a business in India means a sequence of registrations, licences and periodic filings spread across several government portals, each with its own forms, its own fees and its own idea of what counts as a complete application. Most of that work is mechanical. It depends on collecting the right documents, applying the right rule and filing in the right order — and a professional who knows the sequence does it in days rather than months.

What is not mechanical is everything around it. Whether a private limited company is the right structure for what you are actually building. Whether you need three trademark classes or one. Whether a licence class you have been quoted is the right one for your operation, or a broader one that costs more and protects less. Whether a notice you have received is a real deficiency or a clerical one. Those are the decisions that determine whether the filing you paid for was worth making.

Legal Munshi exists to hold both halves. The procedural work is modelled as tracked stages with defined documents, so it does not depend on who happens to pick up the file. The judgement is reserved for the points where it changes the answer. That division is the whole operating model: a platform for the repeatable work, a qualified professional for the decisions that are not.

The consequence for you is that the price of a service should not depend on which person you happen to speak to, and it should be visible before you commit. Both are design requirements here rather than aspirations — the fee is computed by an engine, published per package, and recalculated on the server at the moment you order so the number you were shown is the number you are charged.

Corporate information

Printed only when genuinely configured. An unconfigured field says so rather than showing a placeholder that looks real.

Legal entity
Legal Munshi LLP
Registered office
A1, First Floor, Gole Ka Mandir Rd, above Galav Max Lab, Morar Enclave, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh 474006
State of registration
Madhya Pradesh
GSTIN
23AAMFL7244B1ZJ
PAN
AAMFL7244B
CIN / LLPIN
Not published
Dispute jurisdiction
Gwalior

Practice areas

6 areas, one workflow underneath.

The areas are organised around what a business is trying to do, not around which department administers it — because the same problem usually crosses three of them. Counts below are read from the live catalogue.

Business Registration

6 services

Getting an entity to exist in a form that will survive contact with a bank, a customer and a tax audit. The choice of structure decides what you are required to file every year afterwards, so it is the first decision rather than the last.

  • Private limited company, LLP, OPC, Section 8 and partnership incorporation
  • Name approval and DIN/SPICe+ filing
  • Registered office and constitutional documents

Where judgement sits: Structure selection, and whether the capital and shareholding you have in mind is actually a good idea.

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Trademark & IP

3 services

Brand and invention protection. The cost of filing is small; the cost of discovering too late that someone else already registered your mark is not recoverable.

  • Trademark search, class selection and filing
  • Copyright and patent applications
  • Examination report responses and third-party objections

Where judgement sits: Which classes to claim, and how much of the specification to fight for.

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Tax & GST

4 services

Taxation is the part of compliance that quietly becomes expensive when it is deferred. Registration is the visible step; the returns and the books behind them are what an assessment actually tests.

  • GST registration, amendments and periodic returns
  • Income tax returns for companies, firms and individuals
  • TAN registration and advance-tax position

Where judgement sits: Which regime you should be in, and what the books need to show to support it.

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Licenses & Certifications

6 services

Sector permissions. A licence is not a formality — it is the document that makes an activity lawful, and it carries its own renewal cycle that most founders forget exists.

  • FSSAI food service and manufacturing licences
  • Import Export Code and DGFT registrations
  • Udyam/MSME, ISO and Shop & Establishment registration

Where judgement sits: Which licence class your actual operation needs, rather than the broadest one available.

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Compliance & Filings

4 services

The recurring obligations that a registration creates and nobody tells you about. This is the area that separates a business which is registered from one which is compliant, and it is the one most often discovered late.

  • Annual ROC filings including AOC-4 and MGT-7
  • Compliance health checks against existing registrations
  • Due-date registers and renewal tracking

Where judgement sits: What is genuinely outstanding on your file, as opposed to what a generic package would include.

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Legal Documentation

2 services

Documents and disputes. Most of this is drafting to a specific fact pattern rather than template work, and the value is in the questions asked before the clause is written.

  • Founder, shareholder and partnership agreements
  • Commercial contracts and terms of engagement
  • Legal notices and responses

Where judgement sits: Where the commercial risk actually sits, and what a reasonable counterparty would accept.

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Who we serve

Organised around the business, not the department.

The same problem usually crosses three areas — a structure decision, a tax consequence and a licence. These are the businesses that tend to arrive with that pattern.

First-time founders

Choosing a structure and getting it incorporated without committing to annual obligations you did not understand when you signed up.

Operating companies

Keeping the annual cycle — ROC filings, GST returns, income tax — current, and catching what is already overdue before a notice does.

SMEs and traders

The registrations an active business accumulates: Udyam, Shop & Establishment, FSSAI, IEC, and the returns behind them.

Brand owners

Searching, filing and defending a trademark in the classes that actually protect what you sell, not the broadest set on the price list.

Professionals and freelancers

Income tax and GST for people who are their own business, scoped and priced for one person rather than a company.

Importers and exporters

IEC and DGFT registrations, and the compliance a cross-border operation has to keep in step with customs.

How an engagement runs

Four stages, the same every time.

A trade name search and an annual return look nothing alike from the outside. From the inside they are the same sequence, which is why quality does not depend on who is handling the file.

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  1. Scope before price

    A short set of questions determines which filings genuinely apply to your entity, in which state, and at what stage of its life. The answers drive a fee breakdown — not the other way round. If a service is not needed, the scope should shrink, and sometimes to nothing.

  2. Two prices, never one

    Our professional fee and the government charge are separate lines, calculated separately, and shown before payment. Where a statutory amount genuinely cannot be confirmed, it is disclosed as unconfirmed rather than substituted with a plausible number. Government charges are not marked up.

  3. Preparation and review

    Documents are collected once into a private vault and prepared against a numbered stage list. Where a qualified sign-off is required — a CA, CS or enrolled advocate — the file does not move to submission until that review has happened. The stage list is visible to you throughout.

  4. Delivery, and the year after

    The certificate or acknowledgement is delivered to your dashboard. The obligations it created are added to a due-date register so the next filing is tracked rather than remembered. This is the part most providers stop at, and it is the part that decides whether next year is easy or expensive.

How a quote should work

Six contrasts worth checking with any provider.

The left column is how a compliance quote usually arrives — not what any named competitor does. The right column is what happens here, and each item can be checked on a live order rather than taken on trust. Ask every provider you are evaluating the same six.

How the number arrives

A single bundled figure, discussed on a call and finalised over WhatsApp.

A fee breakdown published on the catalogue page: professional fee, government charge and tax as separate lines, visible before you can order.

Government charges

A statutory amount appears either rolled into the fee or as a surprise at checkout.

Every statutory amount is its own line. Where a charge cannot be confirmed in advance it is labelled unconfirmed rather than estimated — and never marked up.

What progress looks like

An unverifiable status that exists because you asked for it.

The numbered stage list our own staff work from, with the current position and what is still outstanding, visible on your dashboard without asking.

Who did the work

Whoever picked up the call also appears to have prepared the return.

A named owner on every order, with a distinct review step where the law actually requires a qualified sign-off — CA, CS or enrolled advocate.

The year after

The certificate is delivered and the relationship quietly ends.

The obligations the registration created go onto a due-date register you can see, so the anniversary is a reminder rather than a penalty notice.

When the price changes

A rule change mid-delivery shows up as a wider invoice.

The server refuses an order whose figure no longer matches what you were shown, and asks you to review before a rupee moves.

Operating commitments

Six things that are properties of the system.

Each of these can be checked on a live order rather than taken on trust.

Itemised, never bundled

Professional fee, government fee and tax are always separate lines. A statutory amount we cannot confirm is disclosed as unconfirmed, never displayed as zero and never quietly estimated.

The price we quote is the price

Checkout recomputes the fee engine server-side and refuses the order if the number you were shown no longer matches. A rule change mid-checkout cannot quietly overcharge you, and if it does trigger you are asked to review before anything is taken.

A status you can read

Every order carries a stage list with the current position marked, so the status of a file is never something you have to ask for. The same list our staff work from is the one you see.

Deadlines we cannot meet are ours

Authority turnaround is outside anyone's control and we do not pretend otherwise. Delay attributable to us is covered by the refund policy — we finish the work or refund the undelivered portion, your choice.

We are not a government body

Legal Munshi is an independent professional-services platform. We are not a government department or authority, we do not act on behalf of one, and nothing on this site should be read as a claim of official approval. Filings are made in your name on official portals.

Your documents are yours

Documents sit in an access-controlled vault with explicit, withdrawable consent recorded with a timestamp, and a named grievance route under the DPDP Act, 2023. We do not use your documents for anything beyond the engagement you asked us to perform.

Your documents

What happens to everything you send us.

A filing depends on documents a business cannot easily replace. These are the controls around them — each one a property of the system, not a promise you have to believe.

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  • Documents in an access-controlled vault

    Files uploaded for an order sit in a private vault with access limited to the order's named owner. Consent to retain them is recorded with a timestamp and can be withdrawn — a deletion request does not require a phone call.

  • DPDP Act, 2023 as the baseline

    Personal data is processed only for the engagement it was provided for, with a published grievance route and a named person behind it. Nothing about a filing is used for marketing you did not opt into.

  • No document is manufactured or backdated

    We prepare and submit applications on official portals in your name. We do not produce certificates, we do not backdate anything, and we do not file an application we believe will fail on its merits — we tell you why instead.

  • Where an original is needed, you know in advance

    Only the filings that lawfully require an original ask for one. When they do, the requirement is named up front, each custody movement is logged, and the document is returned to you once the filing is done.

When you should not order from us

Four cases where we will talk you out of it.

A firm that only describes what it can sell is not giving you information. These are the situations where the right answer is not to buy.

  • Getting a number in the first hour

    If a filing can only be done because a portal happens to be open, the honest answer is that it depends on the authority. We will tell you that rather than take the order and hope.

  • Work that no one can evidence

    If a service is being ordered because a certificate needs to exist rather than because the underlying requirement is real, we will point that out. It is more useful to you than the paperwork.

  • Guaranteed outcomes

    Approval on an examination, a query raised on a filing, a refund from an authority — none of these are ours to promise. We promise the work and the honesty about its limits.

  • Rescue work at the original price

    Taking over a file that another provider has already mishandled is often the most valuable thing we do, and it is quoted like any other engagement. A rescue is not a favour and it is not free.

Client reviews

What clients say, in their own words.

Published reviews from the live catalogue. Nothing on this page is written for us.

What our clients say

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They reconciled my purchase invoices before filing and caught input credit I had missed. GST Registration was handled properly.
VKVivaan KhanDinhata, West Bengal
Verified
Annual ROC filing was completed well before the deadline and the accounts were reconciled properly.
PPPallavi PrasadHasanpur, Bihar
Verified
They reconciled my purchase invoices before filing and caught input credit I had missed. TAN Registration was handled properly.
LJLata JainAmritsar, Punjab
Verified
Followed up without me chasing them, which is rare. Happy with the service.
PNPriya NairIndore, Madhya Pradesh
Verified
The team knows the portal well. Filing was smooth and I got the acknowledgement immediately.
SKSunita KrishnanUtraula, Uttar Pradesh
Verified
Professional, responsive and honest about what is and is not in their control. Recommended.
AIArjun IyerBali, Rajasthan
Verified
Explained the additional fee I would have paid if I delayed, and filed early. Saved me money.
RMRohan MenonRajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh
Verified
Followed up without me chasing them, which is rare. Happy with the service.
AMAarav MenonBazpur, Uttarakhand
Verified
Followed up without me chasing them, which is rare. Happy with the service.
MCMeera ChatterjeeBellur, Karnataka
Verified
The team explained which structure suited my business before I paid anything. Sole Proprietorship Firm was completed on time and the certificate was uploaded to my dashboard.
SGSuresh GhoshKota, Rajasthan
Verified
They reconciled my purchase invoices before filing and caught input credit I had missed. GST Return Filing was handled properly.
VKVikram KhanSouth Delhi, Delhi
Explained exactly why my earlier return had a mismatch and fixed it. Clear advice on TAN Registration for a Mohali business.
KPKavya PrasadMohali, Punjab

The people behind the files

Named professionals and their registration numbers are not published yet.

A CA, CS or enrolled advocate qualification is a regulated credential, and a number on a website has to be checkable against the relevant register. Until we can verify each individual and the engagement they actually hold, a grid of names and membership numbers would be decoration dressed as a trust signal — so this section stays empty and says so. Every order still carries a named owner, visible on the order itself, and where a qualified sign-off is legally required it appears as its own step in the stage list.

Questions worth answering properly

Seven things people ask before they trust us with a filing.

If your question is not here, ask it directly. Every enquiry is read by a named expert during support hours (Mon–Sat, 9:00–20:00 IST).

Is Legal Munshi a government department or an authorised portal?
No. We are an independent professional-services platform. We prepare and submit filings on official government portals in your name, as your agent — we are not a regulator, not a department, and nothing here should be read as official approval. You remain the applicant and the proprietor of the outcome.
How do you price a service?
A fee engine takes your entity type, state, selected package and any intake answers, and produces a breakdown: professional fee, government charge and tax as separate lines. The same engine runs again on the server when you submit, and the order is refused if the figure you were shown no longer matches. Nothing is billed as a single bundled number.
What does the dashboard actually show?
For each order: the stage list with the current position, the documents you have uploaded and any that are still outstanding, the questions we need answered, the fee breakdown, and invoices. It is the same stage list our staff work from, not a progress bar for reassurance.
Who will actually be working on my file?
A named owner is assigned to each order and visible on it. Where a qualified sign-off is legally required — a chartered accountant for financial statements, a company secretary for corporate filings, an enrolled advocate for contentious work — that review is a distinct step in the stage list rather than something assumed.
Do you handle the year after registration?
Yes, and it is the part we think matters most. Every registration creates obligations with its own dates: annual returns, tax filings, renewals. Those are added to a due-date register on your profile so the next obligation is tracked rather than discovered after a penalty notice.
What happens if something goes wrong?
If the delay or rejection is attributable to us, we either complete the work at no additional cost or refund the professional fee for the undelivered portion — your choice. If it is attributable to an authority or to information you supplied, the refund policy sets out the position case by case rather than leaving it to judgement.
Can I see the registered office and company identifiers?
They are on this page under Corporate information, and they are only printed once they are genuinely configured. Legal Munshi LLP is what appears against statutory documents, and where a value has not been published this page says "not published" rather than showing a placeholder that looks real.

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