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Business licence cost calculator
Choose your business and city. See every licence you need, the official fee for each, and your first-year and yearly totals.
Fees last checked 28 Oct 2026
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How this is calculated
This calculator uses the same fee data as our licence checklist. It runs in your browser: nothing you choose is sent anywhere or saved. Pick a business type and a city and it lists the licences marked required for that business in that city, with the official fee for each.
First-year total is the sum of every fixed official fee for the licences you must get. Yearly renewal is the part of that sum that repeats every year, such as trade licence, FSSAI and professional tax. A fee paid once, such as a one-time registration, is in the first-year total only. A licence that renews every few years is counted once in the first year and is not in the yearly figure.
Fees that vary are licences with no single government fee. The fee depends on the office, the size of the premises or the state, so we list them apart and put no number on them. We never guess a fee.
Every fee comes from an official government source and is rechecked every week. The date shown with your result is when the fees were last checked. Signboard and advertisement fees are set by each municipality and are not in our data, so ask the municipality.
Worked example
A Restaurant or café (dine-in) in Mumbai (BMC) with 6 to 9 employees, a yearly turnover of ₹40 lakh to ₹1.5 crore and a floor area of 20 to 50 sq m, that cooks on LPG, plays music, sells by weight and sells through delivery apps, needs 8 licences. The first-year official fees are ₹4,035 and the yearly renewal is ₹4,035. 2 of the licences have a fee that varies, so they are not in these totals.
- PANFreeOne time
- GST registrationFreeOne time
- FSSAI Basic Registration (food license)₹100Every year
- Health licence u/s 394 (BMC)₹1,435Every year
- Shops and Establishments registrationFreeRenews in 10 years
- Professional Tax (PTEC and PTRC)₹2,500Every year
- Fire NOCVariesNot in the totals
- Music licence (PPL and IPRS)VariesNot in the totals
Sources and dates
- Fee data: Govt License licence fee data, last checked on 28 Oct 2026. Each licence in the result links to its guide, which names the official source of the fee.
- How we check fees: How we verify. A fee we could not confirm on an official site is marked "Not officially verified" in the result.
Common questions
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