Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) is a corporate business vehicle, identifiable by entity’s name containing ‘Limited Liability Partnership’ or ‘LLP’ as suffix, a new business structure in Indian Corporate, that enables professional expertise and entrepreneurial initiative to combine, organize and operate in innovative, flexible and efficient manner,

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The Income of LLP will be charged to tax in the hands of the LLP only and not in the hands of individual partners. Remuneration to partners will be taxed as “Income from Business & Profession” and share of profit in the hands of the partner is exempt from tax u/s 10(2A). The LLP is allowed to get deduction of remuneration paid to the partners subject to the maximum of limit prescribed u/s 40(b).

All LLPs registered upto 30-September-2011 have to mandatorily close their financial year as on 31-03-2012 and file Form-8 by 30th October-2012. LLPs registered from 01-10-2011 to 31-03-2012 have option either to close financial year as on 31-03-2012 or 31-03-2013 and to file both Form-8 & 11 accordingly.Please note that if LLP fails to file Form-8 within prescribed time, an additional fees of Rs. 100/- is payable per day till date of filing.

The concept of Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) in India was introduced in the year 2009 with the enactment of the Limited Liability Partnership Act, 2008 (6 of 2009) which was notified on 31.03.2009. The first LLP was formed on the 02nd Day of April 2009 and since then almost 10,000 LLPs have been formed so far as per the records of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.

These rules may be called the Limited Liability Partnership (Second Amendment) Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force with effect from 16th September, 2012.

Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the notification number S.O. 891(E), dated the 31st March, 2009, namely:- 2. In the said notification,- (a) after serial number 5 and the entries relating thereto, the following serial number and entries shall be inserted, namely: 5A. Section 51

Partnership: Partnership (regulated by Partnership Act, 1932) is one of the preferred business vehicles by entrepreneurs in India. In-fact, India is one of a country which recognizes partnership as a taxable entity (assessee) under the Income Tax Act, 1961. Less stringent regulations, low compliance cost, ease, speed and flexibility of the structure are few of the attractions of the Partnership. Unlimited liability of partners, absence of incorporation status and perpetual succession are three significant drawbacks of the Partnership Structure.

Circular No. 15 /2012 In order to have better understanding of the circular, it is clarified that the time limit of 60 days shall be read as 122 days for filing of Form 11 by LLPs in respect of the Financial Year ending on 31.03.2012. This circular shall be effective from 30.06.2012.

In order to carry out e-filing on LLP you have facility to download the eform and fill it in an offline mode. Every form has the facility to pre-fill the data available in LLP system. Once the e-form is filled you would need to validate the e-form using Pre-scrutiny button. You would then have to affix the relevant digital signatures and save the form. You would need to be connected to the internet to carry out the pre-fill and pre-scrutiny functions.