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Compliance Overview

Four separate calendars run at the same time — company law, income tax, GST and foreign exchange. This is how they fit together.

Quick answer

Compliance in India runs on four independent calendars: company law filings with the Registrar of Companies, income tax and TDS with the Income Tax Department, returns under GST, and FEMA reporting to the RBI wherever foreign investment is involved. Each has its own due dates and its own penalty structure, and what an entity owes depends primarily on its legal form — company, LLP, partnership or proprietorship — rather than on its size or turnover alone.

What we cover

What our business compliance service covers

The whole calendar, mapped to your entity and monitored through the year.

  • An entity-specific compliance calendar built at the start of the year
  • ROC annual filings and event-based forms
  • Income tax returns, tax audit support and quarterly TDS returns
  • GST returns, reconciliation and the annual return
  • FEMA and RBI reporting where there is foreign investment
  • Statutory registers, minutes and records maintained through the year
Key components

The four compliance streams

Separate authorities, separate deadlines, separate consequences.

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Corporate law

ROC filings under the Companies Act or LLP Act: annual returns, financial statements, director filings and event-based forms.

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Direct tax

Income tax return, advance tax, tax audit where applicable, and quarterly TDS returns with the certificates that follow.

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Indirect tax

Monthly or quarterly GST returns, input credit reconciliation against GSTR-2B, and the annual return and reconciliation statement.

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Foreign exchange

Reporting to the RBI for foreign investment received or made, including FC-GPR, FC-TRS, the FLA return and annual performance reports.

How we work

Our process

How we take over an entity's compliance.

1

Compliance audit

Establishing what the entity owes, what has been filed and what is pending or overdue.

2

Calendar build

Mapping every due date for the year with the inputs and owners required for each.

3

Execution

Preparing, reviewing and filing each return and form on schedule.

4

Status reporting

A periodic report showing what was filed, what is upcoming and where exposure remains.

Why choose us

Why compliance defaults get expensive

What sets our approach apart.

Some late fees have no ceiling

Additional fees on ROC forms accrue per day of delay without an upper cap, so an old default keeps growing until it is filed.

Directors carry personal exposure

Continued default in annual filings can lead to director disqualification under Section 164(2), which affects every company that person is on.

One gap breaks the chain

An unreconciled GST credit or an unfiled TDS return surfaces later as a notice, a disallowance or a stalled due diligence.

FAQs

Compliance Overview questions answered

What people ask before engaging us.

A company files financial statements in AOC-4 and an annual return in MGT-7 or MGT-7A, both tied to the date of its annual general meeting, and must hold board meetings through the year. An LLP files Form 11 and Form 8 on fixed calendar dates and has no AGM requirement, but the โ‚น100-per-day late fee applies to both regimes.
Additional filing fees accrue for each day of delay, and prolonged default can result in the company being struck off, directors being disqualified and prosecution of the company and its officers. The practical effect shows up first in banking and diligence, where an active default is visible on the public MCA record.
Yes. Annual filings, director KYC and the income tax return are due regardless of whether there was any business activity. If the entity genuinely will not operate, it is usually cheaper to apply for dormant status or to strike it off than to carry the filings indefinitely.
Yes. Any issue of shares to a person resident outside India triggers reporting in Form FC-GPR, and once foreign investment exists the entity also becomes liable to file the annual FLA return with the RBI, for every subsequent year in which the investment remains on the books.

Not sure what your entity owes?

We will run a compliance audit and give you the full list, including anything already overdue.

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