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The ministry of corporate affairs (MCA) will shortly discontinue the version 2.0 (V2) of the MCA21 portal, a platform used by companies and limited liability partnerships (LLPs) to make statutory filings, incorporation and closure of companies.
In a notification, MCA said that it is launching a final set of 38 company forms, including 13 annual filing forms, 6 audit/cost audit forms on July 14. This launch will effectively shift the entire company filing process from V2 to the version 3.0 (V3) of the MCA portal, rendering V2 obsolete.
To facilitate implementation of these forms in V3, the MCA has issued a set of guidelines for the stakeholders. To begin with, the ministry said that company e-filings on V2 will be disabled from June 18 this year. The notification also said that stakeholders are advised to ensure that no service request numbers (SRNs) are under pending payment or resubmission status.
“Stakeholders are requested to check the SRNs that are currently pending, especially related to investor details and subsidiary details, and upload the details by using services available on MCA portal,” the notification said
Further, the offline payments in V2 using “pay later” option will be stopped from June 8. Therefore, the ministry has advised the companies to make payments for these forms in V2 through online mode only.
In view of the upcoming launch, the V3 will not be available from July 9 to 13. “Accordingly stakeholders are advised to plan and file current V3 forms before July 9 as there will be no waiver of fees or extension of resubmission period,” the ministry said.
The ministry has been gradually shifting the services of MCA21 from older V2 to V3, which was introduced in FY22.
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