Payroll & Statutory Administration
Indian payroll is a monthly compliance examination with at least six examiners: provident fund, employee state insurance, professional tax (state by state), labour welfare fund, income-tax withholding, and the labour-law rules governing wage structure itself. Each has its own portal, deposit deadline, return cycle, and penalty regime. For a foreign employer, the operational surface is bewildering; worse, errors compound silently — a mis-structured allowance or missed deposit surfaces months later as interest, damages, and employee grievance simultaneously.
We run payroll as the compliance machine it actually is. Salary structures are designed to be statutory-correct from the start — including the new labour codes' wage-definition arithmetic that quietly reshapes PF and gratuity costs. Monthly processing produces accurate payslips and net pay on schedule; deposits and returns hit statutory dates with challans archived as evidence; and year-end obligations — investment-proof collection, Form 16 issuance, final TDS reconciliation — run as a calendar, not a crisis. Your finance team receives one reconciled report; your employees receive certainty.
What this covers
- Monthly payroll processing with statutory-correct salary structuring and full deduction management.
- PF, ESI, PT, and LWF deposits and returns, filed to deadline with evidence archived.
- TDS on salaries: monthly deposits, quarterly returns, and year-end Form 16 issuance.
- Employee self-service for payslips, tax computations, and investment declarations.
- Reconciled monthly reporting to group finance in your format and currency.
Who needs this
Foreign employers of Indian teams at any headcount; finance leaders who need Indian payroll auditable rather than mysterious; and companies whose current payroll produces surprises at year-end.
How we deliver
- Payroll calendar and salary structures configured to statute in the first cycle.
- Monthly processing, deposits, and filings executed to date, with challans archived automatically.
- One reconciled report to your finance team, in your format, every month.
Why A2 Consultants
We process payroll as a compliance function, not a calculation service — twenty years of PF, ESI, and TDS practice sit behind every payslip, and the evidence trail is built for the audit that may never come.
Engagement & what to expect
Implementation takes one payroll cycle: structures configured to statute, portals and registrations aligned, and parallel-run validation where transitioning from another provider. Thereafter the rhythm is monthly and unvarying — inputs close, payroll processes, employees are paid on date, deposits and filings hit statutory deadlines, and your finance team receives one reconciled report. Year-end runs as a managed program: investment proofs, final reconciliations, and Form 16s delivered without escalation. The evidence trail builds automatically, so audits and diligence exercises meet an archive rather than a scramble.
Payroll errors are borrowed money at penal interest — we run the machine so nothing is borrowed.