Hi Guys,
I am a newbie and the Rodinhoods has given me great confidence that with a forum like this it will be possible for first timers like me to make our ideas see the light of the day.
I am working on an aggregation type e-commerce website. It is under development. It is purely service based. Can you all help me with a checklist of all government permissions and tax registrations required?
I am based out of Navi Mumbai. I have outsourced the development part and we are using the Magento platform.
I am outlining the specific queries which I hope you all with your experience could help resolve.
- Is there any mandate as to what should be the nature of the company which is operating an ecommerce web site. i.e can it be a proprietory organisation, or an OPC or an LLP or has it got to be mandatorily a pvt. ltd or ltd. concern? I am asking this as I am the currently the sole person involved and I want to avoid the mandatory obligations of the ltd concerns.
- Whilst on the same it should be taken into account that I would need to integrate at least one of the payment gateways. So would they be comfortable dealing with a firm which is not any ltd company?
- I initially intend to run the company (website) from my home (SOHO). So again would any govt. agency or the payment gateway be comfortable with this.
- Apart from registering with the service tax department would I need any more govt. licenses or permissions, etc.
- Do I have to get a “Shops & Establishments” license even if I wish to operate from home?
Do I need any other licenses, permissions or legal obligations to fulfil mandatorily?
Keenly awaiting your feedback.
Going through the various discussions has helped me gain a lot of insight and hats off to Alokji for creating such a fantastic platform.
Rgds
Manish
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