Your Indian entity, compliant every month, visible from anywhere
An Indian entity generates obligations every single month, and none of them announce themselves. The deadlines belong to tax authorities, labour regulators, and company law, and they arrive whether or not anyone in your organisation is watching for them.
We run the complete operational spine of your centre: accounting, payroll, tax, secretarial, legal, and reporting, as one service under one Chartered Accountant-led team. And because you are managing this from another continent, we built the service around one principle: you should be able to see the status of every obligation without asking.
The cost of getting compliance wrong
What non-compliance actually costs in India
Briefly and factually, because the point is not to frighten anyone. Indian statutory deadlines carry automatic consequences: late filings accrue penalties and interest by law, not by discretion. Some defaults carry personal liability for directors. A poor compliance history complicates the things you will eventually want to do: repatriating profits, passing a due diligence, satisfying your group auditors, or selling the business.
The pattern behind most compliance failures by foreign-owned entities is not negligence. It is fragmentation: the payroll vendor, the accountant, and the company secretary each assuming an obligation belonged to someone else. The fix is structural, not motivational: one team, one calendar, one point of accountability.
What the service covers
Eight functions, one operational spine
Bookkeeping and accounting.
Your books kept current every month, to Indian standards and your group's, so the numbers are always ready for a filing, an audit, or a board question. No year-end archaeology.
Tax compliance.
Every direct and indirect tax obligation of your entity, computed, deposited, and filed on its statutory deadline. Deadlines are our responsibility, not your reminder list.
International tax advisory.
Cross-border payments, withholding on transactions with your parent, and treaty positions handled correctly at the moment they arise, so routine intercompany flows never turn into disputes later.
Audit.
Your statutory audit prepared for and managed from books that were kept properly all year, making audit season an exercise in confirmation, not reconstruction. Group audit requirements are supported alongside.
HR and payroll.
Salaries computed and paid accurately and on time, statutory deductions deposited, payslips issued, and employment records maintained. In a talent market, payroll errors are a retention problem before they are a compliance problem; you will have neither.
Secretarial services.
Board meetings, resolutions, statutory registers, and company law filings maintained as a matter of routine. Your corporate record stays clean enough to survive any future due diligence.
Corporate legal services.
Contracts, employment documentation, and the legal questions of day-to-day operations handled by people who already know your entity, so small questions get answered before they become engagements.
Financial reporting.
Monthly reporting in your group's format and standards, including US GAAP and IFRS where required. Your India numbers arrive board-ready, in your time zone, on your calendar.
The compliance calendar, published
The rhythm of obligations your entity lives on
This is the recurring calendar a foreign-owned Indian company operates against. We publish it for the same reason we publish our setup playbook: you should know what you are signing up for, and a firm that runs this rhythm every month has no reason to keep it vague.
Every month
- Payroll processing and salary payments
- Deposit of taxes withheld on salaries and vendor payments
- Provident fund and state insurance contributions
- Goods and services tax returns, where registered
Every quarter
- Withholding tax returns
- Advance tax instalments against the year's expected profit
- Board meetings at the intervals company law requires
Every year
- Annual accounts prepared and statutorily audited
- Income tax return and transfer pricing compliance, where applicable
- Annual company law filings to the Registrar of Companies
- Annual return on foreign investment and assets
Each line above expands into specific forms, dates, and thresholds that depend on your entity's registrations and scale. We maintain that full calendar for your entity, and you see its live status all year, which brings us to how.
How you stay in control from abroad
The reporting rhythm: how 8,000 kilometres becomes irrelevant
The real fear of running an Indian entity from abroad is not that work will not get done. It is that you will not know either way. Our answer is a defined rhythm, not a promise of responsiveness:
A single named point of contact.
One person accountable to you for everything, who knows your entity's history. Not a ticket queue, not whoever picks up.
Defined response times.
Agreed in your engagement, in writing, with working-hour overlap across US, UK, and European time zones.
Monthly governance reporting.
A standing monthly pack: financials in your format, compliance status, payroll confirmation, and anything that needs a decision from you, delivered on a fixed calendar you can plan around.
Always-current compliance status.
The status of every statutory obligation, visible to you at any time: what is filed, what is upcoming, what is waiting on an input from your side. Nothing is invisible, because invisibility is where distance becomes risk.
FAQ
Common questions about compliance and operations
Can you take over compliance for an entity we already operate?
Do we need to keep any compliance capability in-house?
How do you handle our group reporting requirements?
What happens when regulations change?
Who is liable if a filing is late?
Ready to talk about your centre in India?
Tell us where you are in your thinking. We respond within one business day and work across US, UK, and European time zones.