AI-Driven Compliance

Filed on the due date. Every cycle.

The full India statutory stack — PF, ESI, PT, TDS, gratuity, POSH, DPDP — auto-prepared from your payroll, ready on the due date, archived for the audit you hope never comes.

Available on
Starter Growth Enterprise
PF ECR
UAN-linked
22+ PT states
Slabs updated centrally
TDS + Form 16
24Q quarterly
POSH 2013
IC + returns
DPDP Act 2023
Compliant by design
Setting expectations

What we do today. What you do today.

We believe in being straight about the boundary. Direct e-filing integrations are on the roadmap for Q3 2026 — until then, the workflow looks like this.

hrPLANR · Today

We prepare every filing, end-to-end.

From your payroll cycle, we calculate the amounts, generate the submission-ready files (ECR, 24Q, ESI return, PT challan), and remind you of the due date. Everything is archived and audit-ready.

You · Today

You upload to the government portal.

One step: log into EPFO / TRACES / ESIC / state PT portal, upload the file we generated, complete the submission. Takes ~10 minutes per filing. We track the submission once you mark it filed in hrPLANR.

Coming Q3 2026: Direct e-filing integrations for EPFO, TRACES, and ESIC. Until then, "prepare end-to-end" + "10-min upload" is the workflow our customers run.

01 · The monthly trio

PF, ESI, PT — auto-prepared every cycle.

The three monthly filings that govern your statutory life. PF Electronic Challan Return (ECR) UAN-linked and ready to upload. ESI returns at the current threshold. Professional Tax for whichever state each employee sits in.

When slabs change — and PT slabs change more often than the calendar would suggest — we update them centrally. You inherit the change.

  • PF ECR — UAN-linked, gross + employer + employee + admin charges
  • ESI — 0.75% employee + 3.25% employer at the current ₹21,000 ceiling
  • PT — Karnataka, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and 16 more
  • Bonus Act — 8.33% minimum statutory bonus calculated annually
May 2026 · Monthly filings
All ready
PF · ECR
₹3,84,200
Ready · 7 Jun
ESI
₹98,450
Ready · 15 Jun
PT · KA
₹49,400
Ready · 20 Jun
Other states · PT
Maharashtra42 employees
₹8,400Due 31 Jul
Tamil Nadu18 employees
₹3,600Due 30 Sep
West Bengal9 employees
₹1,800Due 31 Jul
02 · Income tax

TDS 24Q quarterly. Form 16 annual. Form 12BB in ESS.

The income tax stack runs on the same payroll engine. Each quarter, the 24Q deduction return is auto-generated. At year-end, Form 16 (Part A + Part B) for every employee — generated, signed, dispatched to inboxes.

And the cycle starts where it should: with employees declaring their investments through Form 12BB in ESS, so the TDS deduction reflects their actual tax situation, not a default assumption.

  • Form 24Q — quarterly, with PAN validation against the TRACES database
  • Form 16 — Part A from TRACES, Part B from hrPLANR, merged and digitally signed
  • Form 12BB — declaration collected in ESS, mid-year revision allowed
  • Old & new regime — both supported; employee chooses, system calculates
TDS · FY 2026-27
4 quarters
Q1
Apr-Jun 202624Q filed 22 Jul · 247 emp
₹12.84LFiled
Q2
Jul-Sep 2026Due 31 Oct · Form 16 cycle
₹13.10LReady
Q3
Oct-Dec 2026Due 31 Jan
Upcoming
Q4
Jan-Mar 2027Form 16 by 31 May
Upcoming
03 · POSH 2013

POSH compliance that doesn't get skipped.

The Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 — built into the platform, not a separate spreadsheet you maintain. Internal Committee roster, anonymous intake channel, case workflow, annual return.

This is the module most HRMS products skip. Available on Growth and Enterprise, because POSH compliance is a Growth-stage problem, not a startup one.

  • Internal Committee roster — Presiding Officer (woman), members, external NGO member, term tracking
  • Anonymous reporting — confidential intake form, encrypted, IC-only visibility
  • Case workflow — receipt, inquiry, recommendation, action — with statutory time limits
  • Annual return — auto-generated from cases handled in the year
Internal Committee · FY 2026-27
Term: Apr-Mar
Committee roster
SM
Sunita MurthyDirector, People · 12 years
Presiding
RK
Rajat KumarVP Operations
Member
PS
Priya SenSenior Engineer
Member
A
Anjali Mehta · Saheli TrustExternal NGO member
External
Status · YTD
Cases handledClosed within statutory 90 days
0
Annual returnFiled within 31 Jan deadline
AutoDrafted Jan
04 · DPDP Act 2023

Built ground-up for India's data protection law.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 changed how employee data has to be handled in India. We were built with it from the start — not retrofitted six months later.

Consent ledger, Data Subject Rights workflow, breach notification within 72 hours, in-region AI inference, sub-processor disclosure, and a publicly available Data Processing Agreement. Your IT and Legal team will want to read this section twice.

  • Consent ledger — every consent recorded with timestamp, purpose, and withdrawal
  • DSR workflow — employee right to access, correct, erase — handled in-app
  • 72-hour breach notification — to all affected tenants per DPDP Act
  • In-region AI inference — employee data not sent outside India for AI processing
  • Public DPA + sub-processor list — at hrplanr.com/legal/dpa
DPDP compliance · Status
All clear
Consent ledger247 active · 0 withdrawn
Tracked
DSR requests · YTD3 access · 1 correction · 0 erasure
Resolved
Breach incidentsZero · 72-hr protocol ready
Ready
AI inference locationAWS Mumbai · in-region only
India
DPA + sub-processor listv2.1 · public · last updated 12 May
Public
05 · The AI check

AI verifies the filing before you submit.

Before you mark a filing as ready, AI cross-checks the numbers against the source payroll, the prior cycle, and the statutory rules. If something doesn't reconcile, it's flagged with the specific row to inspect.

It's the second pair of eyes you wish you had during the late-night close. AI suggests — you decide and submit.

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PF challan total matches payroll₹3,84,200 · 247 employees · UAN-linked
VERIFIED
ESI applicable employees: 142Salary < ₹21,000 threshold · 105 exempt
VERIFIED
PAN missing · 2 employeesTDS deduction at 20% applies · Review
REVIEW
PT applied per employee state5 states · 22 PT slabs cross-checked
VERIFIED
Form 12BB declarations applied239 declarations · 8 missing (default applied)
VERIFIED
Data residency & security

The IT team will want this section.

Where your data lives, how it's encrypted, who can see it, and what happens if something goes wrong. Specific, technical, and verifiable.

Data in India

AWS Mumbai (ap-south-1) primary, Hyderabad (ap-south-2) DR. All employee data stays in India.

Encryption

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit. Aadhaar masked to last 4 digits in UI; full numbers only for statutory submissions.

Audit log

Every access, every change, every approval — logged with user, IP, timestamp. Available via API on Growth+.

Breach protocol

72-hour notification to affected tenants per DPDP Act. Public post-mortem within 30 days. Read our security page →

06 · Seven years on

Archived for the audit you hope never comes.

Every challan, every return, every approval — archived for seven years, the statutory retention period for India payroll and tax records. When the auditor asks for May 2023's PF challan, it surfaces in seconds.

Multi-year audit reports? Export the entire compliance history as a PDF bundle. PT challans per state, TDS returns per quarter, PF ECRs per month — all timestamped and tamper-evident.

  • 7-year statutory archive — meets Income Tax Act + EPF retention requirements
  • Tamper-evident — every record hash-signed at creation
  • Multi-year exports — PDF bundle or CSV for any date range
  • Auditor access — read-only auditor role with time-limited access
Archive · FY 2019-20 to 2026-27
All preserved
PF ECR · 84 monthly filingsAcross 7 years · UAN-linked
Archived
TDS 24Q · 28 quarterly filingsForm 16 generated for each FY
Archived
PT challans · 7 states · 84 months~588 individual filings
Archived
POSH annual returns7 annual returns · 0 cases
Archived

Connects to the rest of the platform.

Compliance runs on the data from Payroll, HR, and Attendance — same platform, same numbers. No reconciliation, no quarterly vendor call.

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