Business compliance services in India — one team, every statutory deadline.

They are the ongoing work of meeting the statutory and regulatory obligations your business carries — identifying which laws apply to your entity, turning them into a dated calendar, preparing the underlying records, filing the returns and forms, and keeping the evidence. In practice it spans registrar filings, income tax, tax deducted at source, GST, payroll remittances and audits. The service is the routine, not a one-off piece of advice.

It depends on the structure, the registrations held, the headcount and the turnover, so the honest answer is that it has to be mapped rather than listed. That said, a typical private limited company with employees will carry monthly GST returns and payment, monthly deposit of tax deducted at source, monthly provident fund and employee state insurance remittance, quarterly tax deducted at source statements and advance tax, an annual general meeting within six months of the financial year ending, the Registrar filings that follow that meeting, an income tax return, and a statutory audit. A proprietorship with no staff carries a fraction of that.

ROC compliance is what a company or LLP owes the Registrar of Companies under the Companies Act. It has two halves. The annual half runs off your financial year — hold the annual general meeting within six months of the year closing, then file the financial statements and the annual return within the periods counted from that meeting date. The event-based half is triggered by change: appointing or resigning a director, allotting shares, moving the registered office, altering capital. Our ROC and registrations page sets out each filing in detail.

Smaller businesses often need it more, not less, because there is no one whose job it is. A founder handling compliance between customer calls is the single most common reason a deadline slips. The volume of work at that size is genuinely small, which also means it is inexpensive to have handled properly. What you are buying is not hours; it is the certainty that someone is watching the calendar.

Yes, and most of it commonly is. Preparation and filing, bookkeeping, payroll processing and audit readiness all sit comfortably with an external team. What cannot be transferred is accountability: the company and its directors remain answerable for what is filed. A good outsourcing arrangement reflects that — you keep visibility over what is being filed and when, and you receive the acknowledgements rather than being told it is handled.

The calendar should be worked every cycle — monthly for GST, tax deducted at source and payroll; quarterly for statements and advance tax; annually for accounts, audit and Registrar filings. Separately, the calendar itself deserves a fresh look at least once a year, and immediately after anything structural changes: a new state of operation, a new registration, crossing a turnover or headcount threshold, or a change in shareholding. Those are the moments when new obligations appear without announcing themselves.

The consequences vary by statute, but the pattern is consistent: interest and late fees that accrue per month or part of a month, followed by notices, and in serious or repeated cases penalties on the company and its officers. There are knock-on effects too — a late GST return delays your customers’ input tax credit, and a late tax deducted at source statement holds up the credit your vendors and employees are relying on. Missed filings also become the first thing examined in lending or investment diligence. Almost always it is cheaper to regularise early than to argue later.

We start with a review of what your entity owes and what has actually been filed, and give you the gaps in writing. From there we build your calendar, work it every cycle, and put everything through chartered accountant review before filing. Because we also run accounting and bookkeeping, tax, payroll and audit support, the books your filings depend on and the filings themselves stay with one team. You can take the whole calendar or only the parts you are short on.