Trade & Professional
Trade & Professional Certifications
At Baldha Associates, we ensure businesses meet all essential regulatory requirements for smooth, lawful operations through key trade and professional certifications.
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1. Trade License
- Description: A legal authorization issued by local municipal authorities that allows individuals or businesses to carry out specific trade or business activities.
- Compliance: Business must comply with local laws regarding safety, health, and public morality. Business must operate within permitted areas.
- Use: Legal operation of shops, restaurants, industries, and commercial establishments.
- Validity: Usually 1 year (renewable annually).
- Issuing Authority: Municipal Corporation or Municipal Council.
2. Shops and Establishments Registration
- Description: Mandatory registration for all commercial establishments under the Shops and Establishments Act to regulate working conditions, hours of work, wages, and employment.
- Compliance: Maintenance of employment records. Observance of prescribed working hours and holidays.
- Use: Legal recognition for shops, offices, restaurants, hotels, theaters, and places of public amusement.
- Validity: Validity period varies from 1 to 5 years, depending on the state.
- Issuing Authority: Local Labour Department / Municipal Authority.
3. Labour Law Compliance Certificate
- Description: Certification ensuring that a business complies with various labour laws like minimum wages, payment of gratuity, maternity benefits, etc.
- Compliance: Timely payment of wages. Provision of workplace safety and benefits.
- Use: Essential for maintaining labour law standards and avoiding penalties.
- Validity: Ongoing, subject to annual audit and review.
- Issuing Authority: Labour Department (State or Central).
4. Professional Tax Registration
- Description: Registration for paying Professional Tax, a tax levied by state governments on salaried employees and professionals like lawyers, doctors, chartered accountants, etc.
- Compliance: Timely deduction and payment of professional tax for employees.
- Use: Mandatory for businesses and individuals earning an income from salary or practicing a profession.
- Validity: Lifetime registration; payment due monthly or annually.
- Issuing Authority: State Commercial Tax Department / Municipal Corporation.
5. ESI Registration (Employee State Insurance)
- Description: Social security scheme providing medical, maternity, and disability benefits to employees earning up to a prescribed wage limit.
- Compliance: Mandatory for companies with 10 or more employees (depending on state).
- Use: Food manufacturers, restaurants, food transporters, packagers.
- Validity: 3 years (with annual surveillance).
- Use: Access to healthcare, insurance, and maternity benefits for employees.
- Validity: Lifelong registration; contribution filing required monthly.
- Issuing Authority: Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC).
6. PF Registration (Provident Fund Registration)
- Description: Registration under the Employees' Provident Fund and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 to ensure retirement savings for employees.
- Compliance: Mandatory for businesses employing 20 or more employees.
- Use: Retirement benefits, pensions, and insurance for employees.
- Validity: Lifelong; monthly contribution mandatory.
- Issuing Authority: Employees' Provident Fund Organization (EPFO).
7. Factory License
- Description: Mandatory license under the Factories Act, 1948 for any premises where manufacturing activities are carried out with a certain minimum number of workers.
- Compliance: Safety and welfare measures for workers. Environmental compliance for emissions and waste.
- Use: Legal operation of manufacturing units.
- Validity: 1 year or 5 years (depending on the state); renewable.
- Issuing Authority: Chief Inspector of Factories (State Government Authority).
8. Excise Duty Registration
- Description: Registration for businesses engaged in the manufacturing of goods where excise duty is applicable.
- Compliance: Regular maintenance of manufacturing records and returns.
- Use: Legal manufacturing and payment of central excise duty.
- Validity: Lifelong, subject to business continuation.
- Issuing Authority: Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) — (after GST, excise is mainly for specific industries like liquor, petroleum).
9. Start-Up India Recognition
- Description: Certification by the Government of India recognizing a business as a Start-Up under the Start-Up India Initiative for tax benefits and incentives.
- Compliance: Company or LLP with less than 10 years of incorporation. Turnover under INR 100 Crores. Working towards innovation, development, or improvement of products or services.
- Use: Tax exemptions, funding benefits, easier compliance.
- Validity: Recognition up to 10 years from incorporation.
- Issuing Authority: Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Government of India.
10. Darpan Registration (NGO/Start-Up India Portal)
- Description: Registration on the NGO Darpan Portal of NITI Aayog, necessary for NGOs and start-ups to avail of government grants and recognition.
- Compliance: Submission of founding documents, PAN, Aadhaar details. Annual updates regarding activities.
- Use: Eligibility to apply for government schemes, grants, and funding.
- Validity: Continuous; must update profile periodically.
- Issuing Authority: NITI Aayog, Government of India.
Why Trust Baldha Associates for Your Registrations?
Experienced professionals handling all types of trade, labour, and regulatory compliances
Fast turnaround and government liaisoning
Documentation, filing, and post-registration support
