Form MGT-7 Filing — Annual Return Under the Companies Act 2013
Section 92 Annual Return, MGT-7A for Small Companies & MGT-8 Certification

Form MGT-7 is the annual return that every company files with the Registrar of Companies. Therefore, it is one of the two pillars of a company’s yearly compliance — the financial statement filing in Form AOC-4 and the annual return filing in Form MGT-7. The annual return is the corporate, shareholding, and governance snapshot of the company as on the close of the financial year. We deliver complete Form MGT-7 and annual return advisory at N D Savla & Associates, covering preparation, MCA portal filing, and the related compliance.

Our qualified Chartered Accountants have prepared and filed annual returns across private limited companies, public companies, and one person companies. Furthermore, our team manages the full sequence — data compilation from the company’s registers, shareholding pattern preparation, director and meeting particulars, MGT-8 certification coordination where applicable, and electronic filing on the MCA portal within the prescribed window. Our Form MGT-7 work connects with the wider ROC compliance framework, coordinating with company annual filing, Form AOC-4 filing, and Form ADT-1 filing. As a result, the company’s annual compliance is handled as one integrated engagement.

Form MGT-7 is the prescribed electronic form through which a company files its annual return with the Registrar of Companies under Section 92 of the Companies Act 2013. The annual return is a comprehensive snapshot of the company as on the close of the financial year — it is not a financial document, but a corporate and governance record.

Form MGT-7 is filed on the Ministry of Corporate Affairs portal and is separate from the financial statement filing made in Form AOC-4. The annual return captures the company’s registered office and principal business activities, its shareholding pattern and shareholder details, the particulars of directors and key managerial personnel, the meetings held during the year, the company’s indebtedness, and the particulars of any penalties imposed on the company.

Filing the annual return is a recurring annual obligation. Hence, every company — whether actively trading or dormant — must file Form MGT-7 (or the abridged Form MGT-7A) for each financial year, within the period prescribed under Section 92.

Form MGT-7 must be filed with the Registrar of Companies within sixty days from the date on which the annual general meeting of the company is held. Therefore, the sixty-day clock runs from the date of the annual general meeting — not from the close of the financial year.

The handling of the deadline depends on whether the annual general meeting is actually held:

Form MGT-7 and Form AOC-4 are the two mandatory annual filings every company makes with the Registrar of Companies. They are often mentioned together, but they serve very different purposes and should not be confused.

Companies choose our Form MGT-7 practice for five reasons rooted in real delivery experience. First, a qualified Chartered Accountant with specialised company law and ROC compliance experience reviews every annual return engagement. Second, our team has prepared and filed annual returns across private limited companies, public companies, one person companies, and small companies — so the engagement is grounded in practical filing experience.

Third, we coordinate the company’s full annual compliance — the Form MGT-7 annual return, the Form AOC-4 financial statement filing, and the related event-based filings — so there is no gap on the Registrar’s records. Fourth, we treat the sixty-day deadline as a hard project-management constraint and track it from the date of the annual general meeting. Fifth, our practice is based in Mumbai but works with companies across India through fully remote, MCA-portal-based filing.