Compliance calendar
The recurring statutory deadlines a small company hits in a year (India, the United States and the United Kingdom), with the authority behind each date and a .ics you can drop into your own calendar.
Central taxes and FEMA obligations for a private limited company or LLP, including the export items a business paid from abroad picks up. State professional tax and labour filings are not listed. They differ by state.
Dates shown for FY 2026-27 (1 April 2026 to 31 March 2027). Every item links to the authority that sets it. Check there before you act on a date.
Colour marks the category. Filters apply to the grid, the month list and the undated items below.
This month: fixed dates
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No fixed date: set by an event or by your own dates
These are the ones nothing reminds you about: they hang off a transaction, a payday, or your own year end and registration date. They are not in the .ics download either. We will not invent a date for them.
Dataset last reviewed September 2026. Dates shift when they fall on a weekend or a public holiday, and revenue authorities extend deadlines. Check every date against the official source linked on the item before you act on it. This is not tax or legal advice. Plaitr is a financial technology company, not a bank, and does not file any of these returns for you.
The dates are not the hard part
Every one of these deadlines is published. What catches companies out is the second thread that runs alongside them and never appears on a calendar: proving where the money came from. An Indian exporter has to show its bank that every rupee it invoiced abroad came back, through a FIRA and an EDPMS or Softex entry. A US company paying someone abroad has to decide, before year end, whether that payment is US-source and lands on a 1042-S. A UK company has to have its own year end in front of it before it knows when its tax is due at all.
Those are in the undated list rather than pinned to a day, because a date we made up would be worse than no date.
Where cross-border and stablecoin receipts fit
India taxes income from the transfer of a virtual digital asset at 30% with no set-off of losses, and section 194S puts a 1% deduction on transfers. Both are written around trading a VDA. Neither was drafted with an exporter in mind who invoices a US client for design work and gets offered USDC.
That leaves a genuinely unsettled question, and we are not going to pretend otherwise: whether a stablecoin business receipt is an export receipt or a VDA transaction depends on the facts (how the money arrives, who converts it, and what the bank sees on its side). The conservative route is to convert through a licensed off-ramp or an authorised dealer, so the credit lands in the current account as an inward remittance against the invoice, with a FIRA attached and the EDPMS or Softex entry closed on the normal track. A stablecoin sitting in a company wallet has no FIRA behind it and closes nothing. Take the position with your accountant before the first invoice goes out.
What is deliberately missing
Indian state professional tax and labour filings, US state income, sales and payroll dates beyond a note that they exist, and the EU member states. All three vary by state or country in ways that a single calendar gets wrong for most readers. Penalty amounts appear only where the statute fixes a number; everywhere else the entry says the exposure varies rather than inventing a figure.
How to use it
Pick your jurisdiction, then filter down to the categories you are actually registered for: a service exporter with no shipments can drop the port and shipping bill items, a US company with no employees can drop payroll. Download the .ics to get the fixed dates in as yearly recurring reminders, then keep the undated list somewhere your finance person sees it when a payment lands or a year end approaches.
Treat every date as the statutory rule rather than a guaranteed day. Your accountant, not this page, is the source of truth in the week a deadline falls. Plaitr does not file any of these returns for you; we move the money and give you the record of it.
Compiled from the official sources linked on each item: CBIC and the GST portal, CBDT, RBI and STPI for India; IRS Publication 509, the IRS employment tax and information return instructions, and the Delaware Division of Corporations for the US; HMRC and Companies House for the UK. Last reviewed September 2026. Dates move when they fall on a weekend or public holiday and are extended regularly. Verify on the official source before you act. This page is information, not tax or legal advice.
Questions
- Which jurisdictions does this cover?
- India, the United States and the United Kingdom. India covers GST, TDS, income tax, FEMA and export realisation, and the VDA items. The US set covers federal income tax, payroll, information returns, Delaware entity dates and the cross-border forms. The UK set covers VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax, Companies House and Self Assessment. Every item names the authority that sets it and links to the page the date came from.
- Why do some items have no date on them?
- Because the date depends on facts we do not have. A UK Corporation Tax payment is due nine months and a day after your accounting period ends, a confirmation statement fourteen days after your own review period, a VAT return a month and seven days after a stagger assigned at registration. Rather than pin an invented date on the grid, those sit in a separate list that says what the rule actually is.
- Do these dates move?
- Yes. A statutory date that falls on a weekend or a public holiday moves to the next working day, and authorities extend deadlines: CBDT and CBIC do it most years. Treat what is here as the rule, and the official portal as the source of truth in the week a deadline falls.
- Why are EU member states not listed?
- Because VAT return frequencies, corporate tax dates and payroll filings are set nationally and differ in every member state, so a single EU set would be wrong for almost everyone reading it. We would rather leave it out than publish a date you cannot rely on.
- Which deadlines apply to a service exporter in India with no shipments?
- GST returns, the annual LUT renewal, TDS deposits and returns, advance tax and the income tax return all apply. Instead of shipping bills you deal with Softex where your export is software or IT-enabled services, plus a FIRA from your bank for every inward remittance you receive.
- What does a US company with one remote employee still have to file?
- Federal payroll on Form 941 each quarter and Form 940 once a year, a W-2 in January, the entity's own income tax return, and whatever the state where that person physically works requires: its own payroll return and unemployment contributions, on its own dates. The state layer is the one that gets missed, which is why it is listed here without dates rather than guessed at.
- Do stablecoin receipts count as export receipts in India?
- It is fact-specific, and depends on how the money arrives and who converts it. The conservative route is converting through a licensed off-ramp or AD bank so the credit lands in your current account as an export receipt with a FIRA attached. Stablecoins held in a company wallet carry none of that paperwork.
- Does Plaitr file any of this for you?
- No. Plaitr moves money and gives you the record of the payment. It does not file your GST, PAYE or 941 returns, does not handle your FEMA compliance, and is not a substitute for an accountant in any of these three countries.
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