A family office that only reports well once a year isn't really being run, it's being reconstructed. The steady-state layer is what makes the difference.
One dashboard for the whole balance sheet
Once the trust, the holding LLP or company, and any AIF or PMS allocations are all live, the family needs one consolidated view across all of them, not four separate statements from four separate managers. We build the reporting stack, templates, data flows, and a single dashboard, so the family sees one number, not a reconciliation exercise.
The compliance calendar
- Trust accounts and filings, where applicable under the relevant state's trust regulations
- LLP or company ROC filings: annual returns, financial statements, board and partner resolutions
- Form 10BD donor reporting and the annual return of income, if a Section 8 philanthropy vehicle is part of the structure
- AIF-related reporting and capital call tracking, if the family has committed to any pooled vehicle
Secretariat
Trust and board meetings, minutes, and resolutions maintained as they happen, not reconstructed at year-end when a bank or an auditor asks for them.
This is where a family office stops being a setup project and becomes a managed operation, run by our Managed Services practice, with one partner accountable to the family throughout.
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The filing calendar, with actual dates
- LLP Annual Return (Form 11): due 30 May, covering the year ended 31 March.
- LLP Statement of Account & Solvency (Form 8): due 30 October.
- Company AGM: within six months of financial year end, so by 30 September for most entities; AOC-4 follows within 30 days of the AGM, MGT-7 within 60 days.
- Form 10BD and 10BE (statement of donations received, and the donor certificate, for a Section 8 philanthropy vehicle): both due 31 May, covering the preceding financial year.
- Return of income, where an audit applies under Section 12A(1)(b): due 31 October.
What actually happens when one of these slips
A missed ROC filing draws an additional-fee penalty that compounds daily rather than a flat fine, which is what makes a late LLP or company filing far more expensive than the same filing done on time. A missed Form 10BD doesn't just delay the donor certificate: it can disallow the donor's own deduction for that gift, the kind of downstream damage a family running its own philanthropy usually only discovers when a donor asks why their certificate never arrived.
Common questions
Does every family office need all of these filings?
No. The calendar above is the maximum footprint, for a family running a trust, an operating LLP or company, and a Section 8 philanthropy vehicle together. A family with just a trust and a holding LLP has a shorter list, which is why we build the actual calendar off the family's real structure, not a generic checklist.
Reporting and operations.
A consolidated reporting stack: one dashboard for the whole balance sheet.
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Bring the situation, however incomplete; leave with a written, fixed-fee plan for the structure, on the same calendar as everything else we file for you.