Refund of MCA fee whether possible ?

The refund of MCA21 fees is available in the following cases:

a) Multiple Payments – This includes cases where service seeker does multiple filings of eForm 1 or eForm 5 and makes payments more than once (multiple times) for the same service. However, refund shall not be allowed in respect of approved eForms.

b) Incorrect Payments – This includes cases where the service seeker has made payment in respect of an eForm or Stamp duty through an incorrect option under Pay miscellaneous fee facility.

c) Excess Payment – This includes cases where any excess fee has been paid by the service seeker due to some incorrect data entered in the eForm or incorrect data in MCA21 system due to migration of data from legacy system.

Refund process is not applicable for the following services/ eForms:

•Public Inspection of documents

•Request for Certified Copies

•Payment for transfer deeds

•Stamp duty fee (D series SRN)

•Form 1A - Name withdrawn cases

•IEPF Payment

•STP Forms i.e. Form 23B, 20B, 23AC, 66, 21A, 23ACA, Form 14 – LLP, DIN-3 (even for cases when the same were non STP earlier)

•Form DIN - 1

•Form 1AA

•Form 22

•Form 4

•Form 22B

•Form 25C

•Form 15

•Form 23AA

•Form 36

•Form DDB

•Form 68