What ACRA Charges a Limited Partnership: The Full Fee Picture

Registering a Singapore limited partnership costs $115 in ACRA fees: $15 to apply for the business name and $100 to register the entity. Renewing the registration costs $30. Filing a Notice of Error to correct something you got wrong costs $60. Those are the published figures as at 16 September 2026.

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The fees themselves are small, which is exactly why they are the wrong thing to focus on. What costs an LP money is missing a renewal, filing a change late, or discovering that the structure was never the right one in the first place.

Here is the fee schedule, and then the part that actually matters.

The published fees

These are the key LP eService fees as published by ACRA on its limited partnership service and transaction fees page, read on 16 September 2026. ACRA’s page carries a last-updated date of 29 January 2026.

Setting up a limited partnership

Running a limited partnership

Two things to note about the structure of that schedule.

First, the name application and the registration are separate, sequential transactions with separate fees. You must reserve an approved name before you can register the LP. If your first name choice is rejected, the $15 is spent and a fresh application costs another $15. Name applications are where new registrants most often burn money without noticing.

Second, ACRA describes this as a schedule of key LP transactions. It is not an exhaustive price list for everything an LP might ever file. If you are planning a transaction that is not on the list, check the current fee on ACRA’s limited partnership fee page rather than assuming.

Why the Notice of Error fee deserves your attention

$60 to correct an error is four times what it costs to apply for a name and twice what it costs to renew for a period. That pricing is not accidental.

A Notice of Error is how you fix information that was lodged incorrectly and is now sitting on the public register. It is not a casual amendment. Filing one is a formal statement that the register is wrong, it goes through General Lodgement rather than a simple online form, and it is reviewed rather than processed automatically.

The practical lesson is that proofreading a lodgement before you submit it has a measurable return. A partner’s identification details keyed wrongly, a capital contribution figure transposed, a manager’s particulars entered against the wrong person: each of those is a $60 correction plus the time, and in the meantime the public register carries information that a bank or a counterparty may rely on.

For the mechanics of what happens to your money once a Bizfile transaction is submitted, including failed payments and refunds, see our note on paying ACRA on Bizfile.

The obligations that sit behind the fees

An LP is governed by the Limited Partnerships Act 2008. Two timing rules do most of the damage when they are missed, and neither of them is a fee question until it becomes one.

Renewal before expiry. LP registration is not perpetual. It runs for a fixed period and must be renewed before it expires for the LP to continue operating lawfully. ACRA allows you to renew from up to 60 days before the expiry date, which is a generous window and still routinely missed. Set a calendar reminder at 60 days, not at expiry.

Changes within 14 days. Any change to the LP’s particulars, to a partner’s details, or to a manager’s details must be notified to ACRA within 14 days. Section 18 of the Limited Partnerships Act 2008 is the provision doing the work. It covers a new limited partner, a departing general partner, a change of principal place of business, a change in a partner’s own particulars, and the appointment or resignation of a manager.

Miss that window and a late lodgement penalty applies. For LPs, ACRA’s published structure is $50 where the default is within three months and $200 where it runs beyond three months, for filing due dates from 9 December 2024 onwards, as set out on ACRA’s late lodgement penalties page and read on 16 September 2026.

The sting is that the penalty attaches per late filing, not per visit to Bizfile. ACRA’s own worked example makes the point: an LP that files a simultaneous partner resignation and appointment four months late is charged $200 for each, so $400 in total. An LP that has let several changes drift can therefore be looking at a bill that dwarfs every fee in the tables above. Penalty amounts do change, so confirm the current position before relying on a figure.

The general partner carries the exposure

In an LP, limited partners get limited liability provided they stay out of management. The general partner does not. That asymmetry means compliance failures land on one person, and it is usually the person least likely to be watching a Bizfile calendar.

If the LP’s general partner is itself a corporate entity, the exposure flows up into that entity, and its own directors will want the filing discipline handled properly rather than informally. Our guide to who should have Bizfile access and how to assign Corppass roles safely is worth reading before you hand the filing job to whoever happens to be available.

How the fees compare to what surrounds them

Read down the right-hand column. Every line costs more than the fee, often by an order of magnitude, and none of it appears in the fee schedule.

What goes wrong in practice

The renewal nobody owned. LPs are frequently small, informal and run by people who are not company secretaries. Nobody is watching the expiry date, the reminder goes to an email address that belonged to someone who left, and the registration lapses. The fix is dull and effective: put the expiry date in two calendars belonging to two different people, at 60 days out.

Choosing an LP for the wrong reason. A surprising number of LPs exist because somebody liked the words “limited partnership” without understanding that a limited partner who participates in management can lose the protection that was the entire point. If the commercial reality is that both parties will run the business, an LP is the wrong vehicle and you are paying registration fees for a protection that will not hold. That conversation is worth having before the $100 is spent, not after.

Filing changes late because the change felt minor. A partner moving house is a change to a partner’s particulars. The 14-day clock applies. Because the penalty is charged per late filing, four small changes left for six months is $800, not $200. Nobody budgets for that, and nobody sees it coming, because each individual change felt too trivial to bother with.

Assuming the fee schedule is the whole cost. Registration fees are the smallest line in the budget of running an LP properly. The recurring costs are bookkeeping, tax filing and somebody competent watching the deadlines. If the LP has any real turnover, it will also need to think about GST thresholds, which we cover in GST registration: compulsory versus voluntary.

Frequently asked questions

How much does it cost to register a limited partnership in Singapore?
$115 in ACRA fees as at 16 September 2026: $15 for the business name application and $100 to register the entity. The two are separate transactions and the name must be approved before registration. A rejected name means a fresh $15 application.

How much is it to renew an LP registration?
$30, as published by ACRA. Renewal must be completed before the registration expires, and ACRA allows you to renew from up to 60 days before the expiry date. Letting the registration lapse means the LP cannot lawfully continue operating until the position is regularised.

What is a Notice of Error and why does it cost $60?
It is the formal filing used to correct information already lodged on the public register. It goes through General Lodgement rather than a standard online form and is reviewed rather than auto-processed, which is reflected in the $60 fee. Checking a lodgement before submission avoids it entirely.

How long do I have to tell ACRA about a change to my LP?
Fourteen days, under section 18 of the Limited Partnerships Act 2008. It applies to changes in the LP’s particulars, in any partner’s details and in the manager’s details. Late filing attracts a late lodgement penalty of $50 within three months of the due date and $200 beyond three months, charged per late filing.

Are these fees the complete cost of running an LP?
No. They are ACRA’s transaction fees only. They exclude professional fees, bookkeeping, tax filing, any late lodgement penalties, and the cost of correcting a structure that was wrong from the start. For most LPs the ACRA fees are the smallest recurring item by a wide margin.

Getting the structure right before you pay for it

The fees on this page are trivial. The decision they attach to is not. Whether an LP is the right vehicle, who should be general partner, what the general partner’s own exposure looks like, and who is going to watch the renewal date are all questions worth settling before the $100 is spent.

Raffles Corporate Services sets up and maintains limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships and private companies for clients across Singapore, and holds the filing calendar so that a lapsed registration is never the first anyone hears of a problem. If you have an existing LP and cannot immediately say when its registration expires, that is the conversation to have this week.

You can reach us through Raffles Corporate Services, or read more on Singapore corporate secretarial practice at Singapore Secretary Services.

The Editorial Team, Raffles Corporate Services