Filing Company Annual Returns in Kenya, If you do not file company annual returns in Kenya for a period of time you can be penalized and your company struck off by the Registrar of Companies.
Annual returns indicate the changes that have occurred within the company throughout the year like change of shareholding, directorships and registered office of the company.
Section 125 of the Companies Act states that every company having a share capital shall, once at least in every year, make a return, and the said return shall be in the form and shall be made up to the date of the fourteenth day after the date of the annual general meeting.
Once a company fails to comply with this requirement, the company and every officer of the company who is in default shall be liable to a default fine as may be prescribed by the registrar.
In filing the Annual Return, the completed annual returns form is submitted at the Companies Registry Kenya with the requisite fees before acceptance.
A penalty for every year defaulted levied for late filing of annual returns
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All such particulars relating to the persons who at the date of the return are the directors of the company and any person who at that date is the secretary of the company are by this Act required to be contained with respect to directors and the secretary respectively in the register of the directors and secretaries of a company.
A company is not required to make a return in the year of its incorporation.
There shall be annexed to the annual return:
It is also important to note that a company need not make a return in the year of its incorporation
Registrar of companies Kenya cr12 document reflects the information indicated on the annual returns.
Searches related to company annual returns in Kenya are regularly done to establish the validity and existence of a Company.