Track recurring legal and compliance deadlines

A financial advisory firm registered as a private limited company has a filing calendar that exists mostly in the founder's head, and every year around the same time she has the same sinking feeling that she's forgotten something — an annual return, a renewal, a form whose name she can never quite remember until her accountant mentions it.

Vakil turns that vague dread into a calendar. She sets up her business type once — private limited, LLP, proprietorship, GST-registered — and Vakil populates a list of commonly applicable recurring deadlines with reminders ahead of each date, each linked to plain-language information about what the filing generally involves and to the relevant government portal. It surfaces what's generally due for a business like hers. It does not confirm that a specific filing is actually due for her exact circumstances — that confirmation is her company secretary's or chartered accountant's job.

The tracker's core function is to populate a calendar of deadline categories that generally apply to a business of the type and registrations entered — a private limited company generally faces an annual return filing and recurring corporate compliance dates, and the tracker surfaces those categories with enough lead time to act. What it does not do is confirm that any specific filing is actually due for her exact circumstances this year. A category can generally apply while a specific exemption means it doesn't apply this cycle.

This distinction matters because India's compliance landscape splits meaningfully between central and state authority, and a calendar that flattened that difference into one national date per category would be quietly wrong for a real share of its users. A Shops and Establishments licence renewal, for instance, is set by state law, and the date can differ from one state to another — the tracker reflects that a category is state-variable rather than presenting a single date as if it applied uniformly everywhere. Getting this right keeps the calendar trustworthy.

Each deadline links to plain-language background on what the filing generally involves and to the relevant official government portal, giving the founder a real head start — but the tracker explicitly disclaims being a compliance guarantee. It is a reminder aid, built to reduce the odds a deadline is missed by accident, not a system that has reviewed her books and confirmed what she owes. The final confirmation, and the filing itself, stays with a professional with the fuller picture.