The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For tax consultancy, that activity is 69202.
NIC code · National Industrial Classification 2008
69202 is the 5-digit NIC 2008 code for tax consultancy: a sub-class of class 6920, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy, within division 69, legal and accounting activities. Search a code or activity below, or copy the code for your Udyam or SPICe+ form.
This code
Division 69Group 692Class 6920Sub-class 69202
Tax consultancy
Sub-class 69202 · Class 6920 · Group 692 · Division 69 · Section M, NIC 2008
The code
Where the code sits in the National Industrial Classification 2008, from section to sub-class, in the official wording.
692025 digits: 69 + 2 + 0 + 2NIC 2025 · Notice dated 16 October 2026
On 18 November 2025 the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation released NIC 2025, which uses 6-digit codes aligned with the UN's ISIC Revision 5. This page shows the NIC 2008 code 69202. The matching NIC 2025 code will be added here once it is mapped from MoSPI's official concordance.
How to read it
An NIC code is built in layers. Each digit narrows the one before it: the division, the group, the class, and finally the 5-digit sub-class. Divisions themselves are grouped under lettered sections.
The broadest numbered layer. Division 69 covers legal and accounting activities. It sits in section M, professional, scientific and technical activities.
Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy.
Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy. The official note for this class is quoted below.
Tax consultancy. The full 5-digit code you enter where a form asks for the business activity by NIC code.
What it covers
69202 is a sub-class of class 6920, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy. The NIC 2008 document explains the class in the note below, quoted exactly.
This class excludes:
- - data-processing and tabulation activities, see 6311
- - management consultancy such as design of accounting systems, cost accounting programmes, budgetary control procedures, see 7020
- - bill collection, see 8291
Where you use it
Two registration forms ask for the business activity by NIC code. This is where 69202 is entered.
The MSME registration asks for the business activity by NIC code. For tax consultancy, that activity is 69202.
The company incorporation form asks for the main industrial activity of the proposed company by NIC code.
Not GST. GST registration does not use NIC codes; goods and services there are classified by HSN and SAC codes.
Choosing the right code
69202 is for tax consultancy. The codes below sit closest to it in NIC 2008: the other sub-classes of class 6920. Each has its own page with the official wording.
69201Class 6920 · another sub-class of the same classClass 6920 has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008, including 69202.
Questions
Tax consultancy, in the National Industrial Classification 2008. It is a sub-class of class 6920, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy.
Class 6920, accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities; tax consultancy, has 2 sub-classes in NIC 2008. Besides 69202, they are: 69201 (Accounting, bookkeeping and auditing activities).
In Udyam Registration, which asks for the business activity by NIC code, and in the SPICe+ company incorporation form, which asks for the main industrial activity by NIC code. GST registration does not use NIC codes.
About this page
The section, division, group, class and sub-class on this page, and the explanatory note for class 6920, are taken word for word from the official document “National Industrial Classification (All Economic Activities) 2008”, Central Statistical Organisation, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India.
This is reference information on the classification of a business activity. It is not advice on which code your own business should declare, and the official NIC document prevails if the two ever differ. A change in the classification, including the MoSPI concordance to NIC 2025, re-opens this page for checking.
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