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Compliance Checklist After Company Registration in India

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This is the one checklist that names the exact triggers, not just the list of registrations. It spells out EPF at 20+ employees, ESI at 10+ employees earning under 21,000 a month, Professional Tax as state-specific (Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal), plus Shops and Establishment, and pins the corporate deadlines that trip up first-time founders: auditor in 30 days, INC-20A in 180 days, share certificates in 60. Read it before your first hire, because the payroll registrations are the ones people forget.

  • PAN and TAN now arrive with incorporation, but the employee registrations (PF, ESI, PT) are separate and time-sensitive: PF kicks in at 20 employees, ESI at 10 earning under 21,000 a month.
  • Professional Tax and Shops and Establishment are state-level, so your obligations differ by where you actually operate, not where you incorporated.
  • Several statutory clocks start at incorporation independent of hiring: statutory auditor within 30 days, INC-20A within 180 days, share certificates within 60.
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The question it answers

  1. What licenses, registrations, and tax IDs do I need right after incorporation to legally operate and pay people?

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