Register your shop or office with the local municipal corporation through the Gumasta License. Handled online, with a relationship manager on your file from start to certificate.
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Which premises need it, how long you have, and what the certificate is used for afterwards.
Shop and Establishment registration is a state registration taken with the local authority by every business operating from commercial premises. Shops, offices, warehouses, hotels, restaurants, cafes and places of public amusement all come within it. In several states, Maharashtra and Gujarat among them, the certificate is known as the Gumasta licence.
It attaches to the premises rather than to a headcount, so a business run by its owner alone still needs it, and each branch is registered separately whatever the jurisdiction. Most states set the time limit at 30 days from the date the business is established.
The Act behind it exists to regulate working hours, leave, wages and holidays, so the registration is what brings the employees at that premises within the state’s protections. The certificate is also the document most often produced as proof that the business is trading, which is why a bank asks for it when a current account is opened.
The authority, the form and the fee all depend on where the premises is, so the first step is establishing which of them applies to you.
Government fee up to ₹1,500 is covered in the package. Where the fee is higher, because of the number of employees or the nature of the premises, the difference is charged at actuals.
Registers of the people employed and of the salaries paid to them.
A record of anything deducted from or advanced against a salary.
A record of the leave taken and the holidays given at that premises.
These are kept at the premises itself, not at a head office, and an officer may ask to see them.
It is the document most often accepted as evidence of commercial activity, which is why it is asked for when a current account is opened and when other registrations are applied for.
The Act sets the rules on working hours, wages, leave and holidays at that premises. Registering is what brings the people working there within them.
Most states make the registration compulsory within 30 days of setting up. Trading without it leaves the business exposed to the penalty the state Act prescribes.
This is the one a new premises picks up first. These are the four that most often follow it, and what each obliges you to do afterwards.
| Attribute | Shop & Establishment | GST Registration | Importer Exporter Code | Professional Tax | MSME / Udyam |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Do you have to register | |||||
| Every commercial premisesShops, offices, hotels, restaurants, cafes, warehouses and places of public amusement. It attaches to the premises, not to a headcount, so a business with no employees still needs it. Factories are outside it, because they are covered by the Factories Act, 1948. | Suppliers over the thresholdAny business supplying goods with an aggregate turnover over ₹40 lakh, or services over ₹20 lakh. In the special category states those figures are ₹20 lakh and ₹10 lakh. Several categories have to register whatever their turnover. | Importers and exportersAny business importing into or exporting out of India for commercial purposes. Import or export for personal use, and consignments moved by a government department or a notified charity, are outside it. | Employers and professionalsAnyone earning from a salary, a trade or a profession in a state that levies the tax. An employer registers to deduct it from salaries; a professional or a business owner registers to pay their own. | Micro, small and medium enterprisesAny enterprise within the investment and turnover limits for its class. Wholesale and retail traders were brought back in from 2021 and are eligible. | |
| MandatoryCompulsory in most states within 30 days of the business being set up, and each branch registers separately whatever the jurisdiction. | Mandatory over the thresholdCompulsory once you cross the turnover limit or fall into a specified category. Below it, registration is voluntary, and many suppliers take it anyway to be able to pass on input tax credit. | Mandatory to tradeThere is no penalty for not holding an IEC. There is simply no import or export without one, and no way to clear a shipment. | Mandatory where leviedCompulsory in the states that have enacted it, and not applicable at all in the states that have not. An employer generally has to register within 30 days of taking on staff. | VoluntaryNothing requires an enterprise to register. It is taken for what it unlocks: collateral-free lending, the protection against delayed payments, and the fee rebates. | |
| Who runs it | |||||
| State or municipalThe state labour department in most states, and the municipal corporation in some, including Maharashtra and Gujarat where it is issued as a Gumasta licence. | Central and stateAdministered jointly. On a sale within a state the tax splits into CGST for the centre and SGST, or UGST in a union territory, for the state. On a sale between states, IGST is levied instead. | DGFTThe Directorate General of Foreign Trade, under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. One code per PAN, valid for every branch of the entity. | State governmentEach levying state sets its own slabs and its own filing calendar, collected through the state commercial tax department or the municipal corporation. | Ministry of MSMECentral, through the Udyam Registration portal. The registration draws turnover and investment figures from your PAN and GST records rather than from a declaration. | |
| State Shops ActsA separate Shops and Establishments Act in each state, with its own rules. | CGST Act, 2017Together with each state’s own GST Act. | Foreign Trade Act, 1992The Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act and the Foreign Trade Policy. | State Professions Tax ActsEnabled by Article 276 of the Constitution, which is also what caps the tax at ₹2,500 a year. | MSMED Act, 2006The Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, and the 2020 notification that replaced Udyog Aadhaar with Udyam. | |
| What you owe afterwards | |||||
| NoNo return, but registers of employment, wages, deductions, fines, leave and holidays have to be kept at the premises and produced on inspection. | YesMonthly or quarterly returns depending on turnover and the scheme you are in, plus an annual return. A registered person with nothing to report still files a nil return. | NoNo return is prescribed. See the row below, which is not the same thing. | YesMonthly or annually, depending on the size of the liability and on the state’s own rules. | NoNo return. The classification updates itself each year from the ITR and GST data filed against your PAN. | |
| Varies by statePerpetual in some states and issued for a fixed term in others, so the renewal cycle depends on where the premises is. Closing the business has to be notified within 15 days. | PermanentThe GSTIN does not expire and is not renewed. A casual taxable person or a non-resident is the exception: theirs is issued for the period applied for, up to 90 days, and can be extended once. | LifetimeThe code itself is permanent and is never re-applied for. It can be surrendered, and it can be deactivated, as the next row explains. | PermanentHeld for as long as the business operates in the state. A separate registration is needed for each additional place of work. | PermanentValid for as long as the enterprise exists, with no renewal. The class it sits in can move up or down as the figures change. | |
| Not requiredNothing is confirmed yearly, though a state that issues a fixed-term certificate expects a renewal before it expires. | Not requiredNothing is confirmed; the returns do that job. | Required, every yearAn IEC has to be updated or confirmed online between April and June each year, even where nothing about the business has changed. An IEC that is not confirmed is deactivated, and it stays deactivated until it is updated. | Not requiredNothing is confirmed separately; the returns and the payments do that job. | Not requiredNothing to file. Linking your PAN and GSTIN at registration is what keeps the classification current. | |
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Five items, and a recent photograph of the premises itself.
A self-attested copy of the PAN of the proprietor, partners or directors.
A self-attested copy of the address proof of the proprietor, partners or directors.
The rent agreement, ownership deed or lease deed for the premises, with a no-objection letter from the owner where it is rented.
The MoA and AoA of the company, the partnership deed or the LLP agreement with the registration certificate, and a recent photograph of the establishment.
Two passport size photographs of the business owners.
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Yes. Whether or not the operations are employee-driven, the business has to hold the licence, subject to the state’s own Act.
In most states the registration is compulsory within 30 days regardless of the number of people employed, so the state law is worth checking before you assume you are outside it.
A premises where a trade or business is carried on, or where services are rendered to customers. It includes an office or warehouse used in connection with that trade, whether or not it is on the same premises.
It does not include a shop or office attached to a factory, which is covered by the Factories Act instead.
A commercial, trading, banking or insurance establishment, an administrative service where the people employed are mainly doing office work, and a hotel, restaurant, boarding house, cafe or other refreshment house.
No. Factories are regulated by the Factories Act, 1948, and are outside the Shops and Establishments Acts.
To the authority for the area in which the shop or establishment sits, within the time the state prescribes. In most states that is 30 days from the date the business is established.
Yes. Each branch is registered separately, regardless of which authority’s jurisdiction it falls in.
It depends on the number of people employed, and in some places on whether the premises is a shop or an establishment, or on the type of activity carried on there.
A government fee of up to ₹1,500 is covered in the package.
Physical verification is not usually necessary. The officer is authorised to visit and may do so before granting the certificate.
In most states, yes. In a number of the larger jurisdictions it cannot, and the application has to be made in person.
We handle both, so the answer does not change what you have to do.
Registers covering employment, wages, deductions, fines, advances, leave and holidays are kept at the premises under the Act, and produced if an officer asks for them.
In some jurisdictions, yes. In Ahmedabad, for example, both have to be obtained together, and in a few places professional tax registration is a pre-requisite for this application.
It depends on where the premises falls, so the applicable state law has to be checked first.
The occupier notifies the Chief Inspector in writing within 15 days of closing.
Once the request is reviewed, the establishment is removed from the register and the certificate cancelled.
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