Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring: After Approval: What Continues
Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring does not end at approval — a set of obligations continues afterwards. The questions below are the ones raised most often in practice; the full scope of the service is on the Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring page.
How does PNPC handle compliance calendars for businesses with a UAE entity as well?
We coordinate a dual calendar through our Dubai office — the Indian side (GST, TDS, ROC, PF/ESI) sits alongside UAE Corporate Tax return and payment deadlines, VAT return periods, and any Free Zone-specific renewal dates. Cross-border remittance filings such as the outward-remittance certification process (Form 15CA/15CB, replaced by Forms 145/146 from 1 April 2026) and FEMA's Annual Performance Report for Overseas Direct Investment are tracked as connective items between the two calendars.
In practice: The gap between two separately-engaged advisors — one Indian, one UAE — who do not coordinate is exactly where dual-jurisdiction compliance breaks down. We treat it as one calendar with two regulatory tracks, not two disconnected calendars.
What is Form 15CA/15CB and why would it appear on our compliance calendar?
Form 15CA was a declaration filed by a remitter before making certain payments to a non-resident, and Form 15CB was a Chartered Accountant's certificate confirming the tax withholding position on that remittance, required for specified categories and thresholds of outward payments under the Income-tax Act read with FEMA regulations. This certification requirement continues in substance under the Income Tax Act 2025, which came into force from 1 April 2026 and has renumbered several sections and reissued some forms under new references — we track the requirement by its underlying function (pre-remittance tax-withholding certification) rather than by a legacy form number alone, so a numbering change does not create a gap in tracking. For businesses with recurring cross-border payments — royalty, professional fees, intercompany charges to a UAE entity — this remains a recurring, transaction-triggered compliance item rather than a single annual date.
In practice: Because this filing is transaction-triggered rather than calendar-triggered, we track it slightly differently — as a standing process attached to every qualifying outward remittance rather than a fixed date, and flag it whenever a client mentions an upcoming cross-border payment. We confirm the current form reference against the applicable rules at the time of each remittance rather than relying on a static label.
Does PNPC actually file the returns, or only remind us of the dates?
The calendar and monitoring service itself is the tracking, review, and alert layer. Whether PNPC also performs the underlying filings (GST returns, TDS returns, ROC forms, payroll compliance) depends on your overall engagement scope — many clients bundle both, so the same team that tracks the date also prepares and files the return, with a CA reviewing before submission either way.
In practice: We recommend bundling tracking and filing together wherever practical — a monitoring function that hands off to a separate filing team (yours or another vendor's) reintroduces exactly the coordination gap this service exists to close.
Do you provide a written record of what was filed and when, for audit or funding due diligence purposes?
Yes. The monthly compliance status report and our filing records together provide a dated history of what was filed, when, and the acknowledgment/reference number for each filing — useful documentation for a statutory audit, a bank loan application, or investor due diligence during a funding round.
In practice: Investors and lenders increasingly ask for a clean, current compliance record as a standard diligence item — having this readily available from an ongoing monitoring engagement, rather than reconstructing it under time pressure, is a meaningful advantage during a fundraise or credit approval process.
What if we are already behind on several filings when we engage PNPC — can the calendar still help?
Yes, though the immediate priority in that situation is a regularisation exercise — identifying every outstanding filing, computing the actual interest and late fee exposure, and filing the backlog in the correct sequence (since some filings are prerequisites for others). Once current, the calendar and monitoring function then takes over to prevent recurrence. We treat backlog clearance and ongoing monitoring as two connected but distinct phases of the same engagement.
In practice: Clearing a compliance backlog is almost always more expensive and time-consuming than the ongoing monitoring that would have prevented it — we say this not to alarm clients who are behind, but to make the case for why staying current, once achieved, is worth protecting with a proper system.
Does PNPC's compliance calendar cover Udyam (MSME) registration updates?
Yes, where applicable. Udyam registration itself does not carry a fixed annual renewal, but the classification (micro/small/medium) is linked to investment and turnover figures that must be kept updated on the Udyam portal, and certain benefits (like MSME Samadhaan protection for delayed payments) depend on the registration being current and accurate. We track when a reclassification update is due based on your actual financial movement.
In practice: Businesses that grow past their original Udyam classification without updating the portal risk losing eligibility for schemes and protections tied to their correct current classification — this is a commonly overlooked, non-obvious compliance item.
Will PNPC's compliance calendar service replace our need for a statutory auditor?
No. This service tracks and supports timely compliance across filings and deposits; it does not replace the independent statutory audit required for companies and applicable LLPs under the Companies Act or the LLP Act. A well-maintained compliance calendar does, however, make the annual statutory audit materially smoother, since records and reconciliations are current throughout the year rather than reconstructed at year-end.
In practice: The compliance calendar and the statutory audit are complementary — an audit that begins with a full year of reconciliation still to do is likely to be a heavier, more disruptive year-end exercise.
How do you ensure confidentiality of our financial data across the monitoring system?
Data shared for compliance tracking and filing purposes is handled under the same professional confidentiality standards that apply to all PNPC client engagements, accessible only to the engagement team working on your account.
In practice: Clients with particularly sensitive data — pre-fundraise financials, for example — sometimes ask about access controls specifically; we are happy to walk through our internal data-handling practices as part of the onboarding conversation.
Can PNPC take over compliance monitoring mid-year from our previous accountant or a software tool we are discontinuing?
Yes. We run a compliance profile mapping exercise at onboarding regardless of when in the year you engage us, which includes reviewing your filing history to date for the current financial year, confirming nothing is currently outstanding, and building the calendar forward from that point. A mid-year transition is routine for us.
In practice: The one thing we always ask for at a mid-year transition is access to filing acknowledgments for the year so far — this lets us confirm your actual current compliance status rather than relying on a verbal summary, which occasionally differs from what the portals show.
Where this sits in the wider engagement
Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring rarely arrives on its own. The statutory basis and the current requirements are set out on the Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring service page, and the related services are grouped under Accounting Payroll.
What PNPC does
PNPC Global has practised since 1986 across India and the UAE. On Compliance Calendar & Due Date Monitoring we take the work end to end — reviewing the facts, preparing and filing what is required, and dealing with the authority through to closure.