AOC-4 due date: 30 days after your AGM.
AOC-4 is due within 30 days of your AGM, the yearly shareholders' meeting, which puts this year's date at 29 October 2026 for most companies. Miss it and the late fee is ₹100 a day, with no upper limit, plus a separate penalty on the company and its directors. AOC-4 carries your company's yearly accounts, including the balance sheet and the auditor's report, to the Registrar of Companies, the ROC. Every company files it every year, trading or not.
- Every filing is checked before you approve it
- Filed on its date, every year
- If a date is missed because of us, that month is free
AOC-4 this year
29 October 2026
30 days after the AGM, for the year ended 31 March 2026
An example of how it goes.
AOC-4, in plain words.
- AOC-4 files your company's yearly accounts with the ROC.
- It carries the balance sheet, the profit and loss report, the auditor's report, the board's report, and the notice of the AGM, the yearly shareholders' meeting.
- Every company files it, every year.
- Even with no sales during the year, the company still has a balance sheet and files AOC-4 like any other company. A company with subsidiaries also files the group accounts. A listed company files a machine-readable version called XBRL. So does a company with paid-up capital of ₹5 crore or more, or turnover of ₹100 crore or more.
- The date is 30 days after your AGM.
- If your AGM was on 30 September, AOC-4 is due by 29 October 2026. A One Person Company has no AGM and files within 180 days of the year end, by 27 September. If no AGM was held, the form is due within 30 days of the date it should have happened, with the reason attached.
- There is a small government fee, and a separate late fee if you miss the date.
- The government fee depends on your share capital, from ₹200 to ₹600. The late fee is ₹100 a day, with no upper limit.
- Miss the date and the cost keeps growing.
- On top of the late fee, the company faces a penalty of ₹10,000 plus ₹100 a day, up to ₹2 lakh. Each officer in default faces ₹10,000 plus ₹100 a day, up to ₹50,000. Miss the yearly accounts or the yearly return for 3 years in a row, and the directors are barred from any company for 5 years. The ROC can also strike the company off the register.
- How it is filed and who signs.
- It goes in on the MCA portal, run by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. A director signs it with a digital signature, and a practising professional certifies it: a CA, a company secretary or a cost accountant in practice. The accounts have to be audited and adopted at the AGM before the form goes in. The order is books closed, audit done, board approval, AGM adoption, then AOC-4.
What we do for you.
- We close your books and get the accounts ready before the AGM.
- The balance sheet and profit and loss report are ready well before your AGM date. This means the audit and the AGM are not held up waiting for numbers.
- We work with your auditor to keep the audit on schedule.
- Your auditor is independent and signs the audit report. We prepare the papers they ask for, so the audit finishes in time for the AGM.
- We prepare AOC-4 and check it before you approve it.
- The form and its attachments are ready before the date, including the XBRL version if your company needs one.
- We track your date and tell you well before it is close.
- You get a reminder well before 29 October, not after. If your AGM is delayed, we recalculate the date the same day.
- We file the same day you approve it.
- You approve with your digital signature, and we file the form and send you the receipt the same day.
Your side of it.
Small things, sent any way you like. We do the rest.
- Your AGM date, once it is fixed
- The signed audit report from your auditor
- Your digital signature, to approve the form
We track this date from the day your books close, so nothing depends on you remembering it.
What people ask about the AOC-4 due date.
Is the AOC-4 date extended this year?
The law's date is 29 October 2026, and that is the date to plan for. The government has moved the AOC-4 date before, usually in November and only after the original date had passed. We plan for the law's date, and tell you the same day if the government changes it.
We had no sales this year. Do we still file AOC-4?
Yes, every year, trading or not. A company with no sales still closes a balance sheet, even at zero activity. AOC-4 carries that balance sheet to the ROC, and the ₹100 a day late fee runs the same way it would in a trading year.
Our AGM was held late. What happens to the AOC-4 date?
The AOC-4 date always counts 30 days from your actual AGM date, not from 30 September. File it as soon as your AGM happens, and count 30 days from that date. If no AGM was held at all, AOC-4 is still due within 30 days of the date it should have happened, with the reason attached.
How much does it cost if AOC-4 is 3 months late?
About ₹9,000 in late fee alone, at ₹100 a day for roughly 90 days. On top of that, the company can face a penalty of ₹10,000 plus ₹100 a day, up to ₹2 lakh. Each officer in default faces ₹10,000 plus ₹100 a day, up to ₹50,000. The late fee has no upper limit, so the amount only grows the longer it waits.
What do we need to have ready for AOC-4?
You need the audited balance sheet and profit and loss report, the auditor's report, the board's report, and the AGM notice. You also need your director's digital signature to approve the form, and a practising professional to certify it. Send us the audited accounts once your AGM is done, and we take it from there.