What actually makes up the government cost of incorporation
"Government fee" for incorporation is not one number — it is five or six separate charges from three different authorities, and conflating them is how most published figures go wrong.
- MCA filing fee (SPICe+ Part B) — nil up to ₹15 lakh authorised capital, then a scale that rises with capital, the same Table of Fees the MCA uses across its company e-forms.
- Name reservation — ₹1,000 for a company/OPC through RUN or SPICe+ Part A, ₹200 for an LLP through RUN-LLP or FiLLiP Part A.
- DIN / DPIN — free for the first 3 directors (company/OPC) or 5 designated partners (LLP) allotted with incorporation itself; ₹500 flat per person beyond that, filed separately on Form DIR-3.
- State stamp duty on the MOA/AOA — fixed by each state’s own Stamp Act, not by the MCA. This is the line that varies most: a fixed amount in some states, a percentage of authorised capital with its own minimum and cap in others.
- PAN and TAN — a small fixed fee each, applied for automatically inside SPICe+/FiLLiP and issued digitally.
None of this includes the Digital Signature Certificate every signatory needs, which is bought from a certifying authority at its own market rate, or any professional fee for actually handling the filing.

