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mahesh (M.Tech)     06 December 2016

Sole proprietorship

Sir, I want to start a business overall India as my own without any other intervention. Is it enough sole proprietorship registration? . what type of registration,I have to do business overall India in service sector. And what is the process for it.give me explanation.thanking you Sir.


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Ms.Usha Kapoor (CEO)     07 December 2016

How to open and register Sole Proprietorship in India with current bank account.

If you want to start a new online or offline business, sole proprietorship is the best option for you. A sole proprietorship is an unincorporated business owned by one person. The owner of a sole proprietorship is known as a sole proprietor. You can start it the day you want it. When your business grows you can then turn it into an LLP or a Company.

As a sole proprietor, you can operate the business under your own name or under a trade/firm name or your website's name. e.g. Let's say you are an IT consultant, you can operate the business under your own name "Sumedh, IT Consultant" or under a trade/firm name "ABC IT Consultants".



 

How to open a current bank account for my proprietorship


If you want to open a current bank account under your trade name "ABC Consultants" you will need couple of things

1) Service tax registration or Sales Tax or VAT registration or Shop Establishment license.

Note For consultancy you need just service tax regd but for selling goods you will have to go for sales/vat/ regd and shop license

2) Letter from your CA regarding the nature of your business.

3) Letterhead with the firm's name and address.

4) Stamp in the name of the Proprietorship.

5) Address and ID Proof of the proprietor. If proprietorship address is different then you will also need office premise address proof.



You can register your proprietorship for Service tax with the ACES website by filling the ST1 form.
Note - Make sure you enter the trade name in "Name of the Applicant" Section.

Submit the ST1 form online and take a printout of ST1. Submit the ST1 printout along with proof of ID, address documents to the Service tax office where your business is located. Couple of days later you will get the ST2 form in your email. Take a printout of ST2 and go to the service tax office to get it stamped. You may have to pay a small bribe to get the stamp. Long live India :)

Once your ST2 is stamped take a copy of it and submit it along with the rest of documents mentioned above to your bank. Enter the name of your firm in the first name section on the current account opening form of the bank.

Note - You will have to file a Nil return if your annual turnover from the proprietorship is less than 10 Lakhs. If your turnover is more than 10 Lakhs per annum you will have to pay service tax. Talk to your CA for more details on this.If yopu  appreciate this answer please click my profilelikes.

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