The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has announced a substantial increase in fees for the submission of documents by various categories of companies. This change comes as part of an amendment to the Seventh Schedule of the Companies Act 2017, as detailed in SRO 1806(I)/2024 issued by the SECP.

Under the revised fee structure, the cost for electronic submission of documents for registering a company with a nominal share capital not exceeding Rs 100,000 has risen from Rs 1,100 to Rs 5,500. For manual submissions, the fee has increased from Rs 2,200 to Rs 10,000.

Additionally, the SECP has raised the fees associated with seeking approvals, sanctions, permissions, exemptions, directions, or confirmations from the Commission or registrar. The non-refundable application processing fee for reserving a proposed company name has increased from Rs 200 to Rs 1,000 for electronic submissions, and from Rs 500 to Rs 2,000 for manual submissions.

Furthermore, the SECP has introduced a fee of Rs 100,000 for both electronic and manual submissions of documents for the registration of companies as a group under regulations 138/140 of the Companies Regulations 2024.