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Sole Proprietorship to Pvt Ltd Company

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The process of conversion of Sole Proprietorship to Private Limited Company is very much similar to the regular incorporation of any Private Limited Company with some additional documents or points in Memorandum of Association or Articles of Association of the proposed company.
Small scale businesses can be easily started in the form of Sole Proprietorship due to easy operating and lesser legal compliances; it is the easiest form of business organization. Though having some advantages it has many disadvantages compared to a limited liability company. At the growing stage of any business, it requires funds and entity having separate legal entity or you can say corporate entity can get loans and any other financial assistance from Banks and financial institutions without complication.
Advantages of Private Limited Company:

Limited Liability:

Due to limited liability risk of attachment of personal assets does not exist.

Company Limited:

Shares of a company limited by shares are transferable by a shareholder to any other person subject to the restriction as given in the definition. The transfer is simple as compared to the transfer of an interest in a business run as a proprietary concern or a partnership.

Private Limited Company:

A Private Limited Company is a separate legal entity which means a Private Limited company can file a court case in its name and if a particular person wants to file a case against the company then he cannot file such a case against the shareholder or Director but he can do it against the company itself.

Directors or Members:

A Private Limited Company enjoys Perpetual Succession which means a company’s existence does not depend upon the existence of its Directors or Members.

Legal procedure:

A company can be shut down only by a legal procedure as may be prescribed in the Companies Act.

Equity capital:

A company can raise equity capital from persons or entities interested in becoming a shareholder subject to condition given in Definition above. Entrepreneurs can raise money from banks, financial institutions, angel investors, venture capital firms, private equity firms, and hedge funds.
Benefits of Conversion:

Tax Liability:

As per section 47 (xiv) of Income-tax Act 1961, No Capital Gains Tax is to be charged on the transfer of property on the conversion of Proprietorship firm into a Private Limited Company.

Assets & Liability:

All the assets and liabilities before the conversion of the proprietary concern automatically vest in the Company after conversion.

Stamp Duty:

All immovable and movable properties of the proprietorship automatically transfer to the Company. Neither the stamp duty needs to be paid on the transfer of the property nor, any separate instrument of transfer is to be executed.
Steps of Sole Proprietorship to Pvt Ltd Company:
Name Availability

Check whether proposed
name(s) do(es) not
match with existing
names of the
companies.

DSC

For incorporation of
Company and its
further compliances
Class 2 DSC
is necessary.

RUN

File web based
Form RUN for the
purpose of reservation
of name for the
company

SPICe+

File web based forms Form SPICe+, Forms SPICe+ MOA, Forms SPICe+ AOA, Form AGILE Pro, and Form INC-9 for completion of incorporation process.

Requisites of Conversion:

The proprietor should check that the following requirements are complied with before starting the conversion process:

A slump sale agreement must be entered into between the sole proprietor and the private limited company for conversion.
Memorandum of Association (MOA) of the Private Limited Company must contain an object stating that – “The takeover of a sole proprietorship concern”.
All the liabilities and assets of the sole proprietorship must be transferred to the private limited company.
The proprietor should be a member of the company’s board of directors with a minimum voting power of 50% of that of the company. It may be noted that a private limited company must have a minimum of two directors.
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