Our method
How we run compliance so it never becomes a case.
We spent years untangling stuck EPF claims for employees. Almost every one of them began as an employer's filing, done wrong, years earlier. This is how we run compliance so yours never becomes one of those cases.
1,100+
Stuck EPF cases resolved
₹150 Cr+
Recovered for employees
1,300+
Clients served
2019
In practice since
What actually happens.
No invented timelines and no promises we cannot keep — only the sequence an engagement genuinely follows.
01 · Before anything starts
You tell us the shape of the company
A callback or a phone call, whichever suits you. We ask the questions that actually determine your obligations: headcount, which states you employ in, how many entities, what is already registered, and what has quietly slipped.
- Headcount & states
- Entities & registrations held
- What has already slipped
02 · Before you commit
We scope the work, and you see it in writing
Compliance is not one price. What it costs depends on how many employees, how many states, how many registrations, and whether we are starting clean or cleaning up. We put the scope and the fee in writing, and you approve it before any work begins.
- Scope-based, not a price list
- Agreed in writing first
- No work before you approve
03 · Once you engage
We take custody of the record
Establishment codes, portal credentials, past challans and returns, wage registers, and any notice sitting unanswered. Wherever the previous handling left gaps, we say so plainly rather than inheriting them silently.
- Codes & portal access
- Past filings reviewed
- Open notices surfaced
04 · Every month
We run the statutory calendar
TDS on salaries by the 7th. EPF contribution with ECR by the 15th. ESIC by the 15th. Professional Tax and Labour Welfare Fund on each state's own cycle. Around them sit the half-yearly and annual items — bonus, gratuity provisioning, the POSH annual report, Shop & Establishment renewals.
- ECR & ESIC by the 15th
- PT & LWF per state cycle
- Registers kept current
05 · When something arrives
We answer the notice
An EPFO or ESIC notice, an inspection, a departmental query. We draft the reply, assemble the evidence from the records we already hold, and represent the establishment through it. This is the part most compliance vendors quietly leave to you.
- Reply drafted & filed
- Evidence from our own records
- Represented through inspection
06 · What you are left holding
A record that survives an inspection
Filed returns, paid challans, maintained registers, and correspondence — organised so that the next inspector, auditor, acquirer, or due-diligence team finds a clean file rather than a reconstruction exercise.
- Returns & challans filed
- Registers maintained
- Ready for due diligence
Key Takeaway
Honest expectations
What we do not control.
Three things sit outside any consultant's hands. Knowing which is which is the difference between a managed calendar and a surprise.
Departmental processing
Registration approvals, code allotments and correction requests move through departmental queues at their own pace. We file correctly and follow up; we do not control how long an office takes to act.
State-by-state variation
Professional Tax is levied by roughly twenty states and Labour Welfare Fund by around sixteen — each with its own registration, rate and filing cycle. Employing across states multiplies the calendar, and there is no national shortcut.
Third-party actions
Contractors must run their own PF and ESI properly for you to stay clean as principal employer, and employee KYC has to be completed by the employee. We chase both persistently — but neither is ours to complete.
One EPF Buddy who knows your file.
Deadlines, documents, challans, notices and questions go to the same EPF Buddy — someone who already knows your establishment codes, your states and your filing history. No portal to learn, no ticket queue, and no re-explaining your setup to whoever happens to pick up.
Start with the scope.
Tell us your headcount, your states and what is already registered. We will tell you what applies, what is missing, and what it would take to run it properly.